AlliedSignal Aerospace, Torrance, Calif., appointed Catherine Tornero communications manager; was associate manager, corporate communications and PR for Baskin-Robbins USA Co., Glendale, Calif.
American Council on Exercise (ACE), San Diego, named Jim Winters VP of marketing and PR; was CEO and CCO of the EvansGroup, Los Angeles, a national advertising agency.
AND1, a basketball shoe and apparel company in Rosemont, Pa., appointed Errin Cecil-Smith director of corporate communications; was director of PR and integrated communications at The Brownstein Group, Philadelphia.
The Berline Group, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., named Diana Lucas VP/account director; was a consultant for Business Market Solutions, Detroit.
Burson-Marsteller, Washington, D.C., hired Karen Chiccehitto as manager, public affairs; was a key advisor on policy for Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.
City of Hope Medical Center and Beckman Research Institute, Duarte, Calif, named Susan E. Phillips senior VP/public and government affairs; was VP/government and public affairs at the University of Chicago Hospitals, Chicago.
CNF Transportation Inc., Palo Alto, Calif., hired Debra Watros as PR manager; was chief public affairs officer for the 349th air mobility wing at Travis Air Force Base, Sacramento,Calif.
Communico Inc., Indianapolis, appointed Lisa Jacobson media director; was media director at Shuel Daley Inc., Indianapolis.
GE Capital Services, Stamford, Conn., hired Valerie T. Di Maria as VP, corporate PR & advertising; was president of Grey Advertising's international PR agency, GCI, New York.
Gruner + Jar USA Publishing, New York, named Sue R.E. Geramian director of corporate communications; was VP and director at Burson-Marsteller, New York.
Mathews & Clark Communications, Hong Kong, named Craig Addison VP/Asia/Pacific and Japan; was a high-tech journalist at Electronic Business Asia, Hong Kong; and Judy Erkanat as account manager at the Sunnyvale, Calif., office; was a journalist at Electronic News.
Medialink Worldwide Inc., London, appointed David Whitborn VP of European operations; was deputy news editor at Central Television, London.
Nelson Communications Group, Irvine, Calif., hired Brenda Leer as counselor; was executive director for San Diego County Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse, a grassroots organization.
North American Precis Syndicate Inc. (NAPS), New York, has added three VPs: Steve Hudanish, was president and principal of Mid-Atlantic Sales Training; Marie Powell, was a TV news producer at Conus (USSB), Minneapolis; and LizWeiner, was PR coordinator for BDB Communications, Potomac, Md.
Newmyer Associates Inc., Arlington, Va., named William F. Sullivan as senior VP; most recently in private practice as an attorney; and Diane Helyne Zyats as VP; was public affairs spokesperson at the Resolution Trust Company.
Porter Novelli, New York, named Belle Gauvry senior VP and director of national media relations; was director of communications for Partnership for Educational Reform, a school reform program in Philadelphia.
Shandwick, Detroit, hired John Casey as VP; was an automotive account consultant at DMB&B Public Relations, Troy, Mich.
Spring O'Brien & Co., New York, appointed Marc Weinstein VP of business-to-business PR; was VP at Trimedia Inc., New York.
Unova, Beverly Hills, Calif., hired David S. Brooks as manager, PR; was VP, group director at Boxenbaum Grates Inc., a New York PR and advertising firm.
Young & Rubicam Inc., New York, named Marian Salzman director of its brand futures group; was head of the global communications "department of the future" at TBWA International, New York.
Carol Anderson, Cynthia Clanton, Kristi Fuller, and Siobban O'Brien Olson, from account executives to VP/management supervisors at Colle & McVoy Inc., Minneapolis.
Bader Rutter & Associates Inc., Milwaukee, promoted six senior staff members: Greg Nickerson from senior VP to executive VP and COO; Tom Hicks, from director of print production to senior VP; Miller Hogan, from director of marketing services to VP; Steve King, from group supervisor to senior VP; Mike McCabe, from creative director to senior VP; and Jeff Wedeward from group supervisor to senior VP.
Paul Butler, from VP/consumer marketing to senior VP; and Leslie Cohen, from account supervisor to VP at Porter Novelli, New York.
Cathy Calhoun, from partner to partner and CEO at Bozell Public Relations, Chicago.
Victoria Feldman, from senior VP to executive VP at KWE Associates Inc., New York.
Stephen F. Friedman, to CCO at Franco Public Relations Group; served as president of Franco's creative services subsidiary, Brightlines Creative.
Tim Johnson, from senior VP to general manager at Golin/Harris Technologies, San Francisco.
Carla Peterson, from senior account supervisor to VP at Manning, Selvage & Lee, Atlanta.
Lisa Van Riper, from account manager to director of corporate communications at Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits, Atlanta.
Michael B. Young, a VP of high-tech PR firm, Tech Image Ltd. in Palatine, Ill., was named head of its digital video and Internet systems group.
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