Lisa Chrones joins Selz/Seabolt Communications, Chicago, as senior account supervisor. Chrones was an account manager at Frankel & Company, Chicago. (Selz/Seabolt, 312/372-6160)
At Ketchum Public Relations, Pittsburgh, Susan Brophy and David Krivda were promoted from account executives to senior account executives. (Ketchum, 412/456-3519)
Mathews & Clark Communications, Sunnyvale, Calif., has promoted Stewart R. Chalmers from account manager to VP and COO. (Mathews & Clark, 408/736-1120)
Alejandro Vitale has been named client service manager for The Jeffrey Group in Buenos Aires. Alejandro was account director at Hill & Knowlton in Argentina. (Jeffrey Group, 305/860-1000)
Lewis Gace Bozell, Fort Lee, N.J., has named Michael Jabbour president, North America and promoted John DeFranco to senior partner/director of client services.
Jabbour had been managing partner/executive director of client services at LGB. DeFranco was group account supervisor. (LGB, 212/727-5917)
L.C. Williams & Associates Inc., Chicago, has hired Kevin Kirkpatrick as director of client services and has promoted Kristen Krebs to account supervisor.
Kirkpatrick was client service manager at Gibbs & Soell Inc. in Chicago. Krebs joined LCWA in 1994 as account executive. (LCWA, 312/565-3900)
Phil Harrison has joined Pringle Dixon Pringle, Atlanta, as senior VP. Harrison served as president of the PRSA's Georgia Chapter in Atlanta. (PDP, 404/688-6720)
Sheryl Stone has been promoted from senior account executive to account supervisor at Stone, August, Baker & Company, Troy, Mich. (Stone, August, Baker & Company, 810/362-9300)
Padilla Speer Beardsley Inc., Minneapolis, has promoted Stephanie Seman to group administrator for the firm's St. Paul office.
Seman had provided human resources and administrative support in the firm's Minneapolis office. (Padilla Speer Beardsley, 612/871-8877)
Mark D. Cowan, president and COO of Newmyer Associates Inc., Arlington, Va., named Mark M. Lowenthal executive VP. He was staff director of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 104th Congress. (Newmyer, 703/522-1845)
The Gable Group, San Diego, has added John Cihomsky as account supervisor and Jennifer Spengler as account executive. Cihomsky was a senior account executive at Chapman Warwick Advertising & Public Relations in San Diego.
Spengler was managing editor for a San Diego publication. (Gable Group, 619/234-1300)
McCann-Erickson Detroit, a division of McCann-Erickson Worldwide, has named John Wray as its first PR manager.
Wray was the communications administrator for SelectCare, a healthcare company in Troy, Mich. (McCann-Erickson, 810/362-5699)
Jill Miller has returned to G+A Communications, New York, as VP and account manager. Miller was an associate at Yecies Associates in New York. (G+A Communications, 212/221-2267)