Catherine Bolton is named acting president and COO of PRSA only six months after joining the organization as its first chief PR officer. She replaces ousted president Ray Gaulke, who will
continue work on a contract basis for the PRSA Foundation and Kids in a Drug Free Society (K.I.D.S.). Bolton will likely be in the running for the permanent presidential seat.
Baby New Year: The Interpublic behemoth Weber Shandwick Worldwide (which fuses the formerly separate namesake agencies) becomes official this week. Tom Tardio is named CEO of North America; Lutz Meyer
is named CEO of Europe; Martin Spurrier and Alison Clarke are named chairman and CEO of Asia-Pacific, respectively; and Bruce Rubin becomes CEO of Latin America and EVP. Practices under the Weber
Shandwick umbrella now include Cassidy & Associates, Rogers & Cowan, Miller, Rowan & Blewitt, Red Whistle, The Weber Group and IPR/Geneva.
Fleishman-Hillard announces plans to acquire Greer, Margolis, Mitchell, Burns & Associates, thus shoring up its political consulting and public affairs prowess. F-H also owns the government
relations firm R. Duffy Wall & Associates in D.C., which it plans to maintain as a separate entity.
PAN Communications handles crisis communications for Edgewater Technology in the aftermath of the Dec. 26 shooting that killed seven employees.