New PR lead for energy provider npower
Energy provider npower has promoted its senior PR manager (consumer), Zoe Melarkey, to head of PR. Melarkey has been at npower since 2005. She started off her career at [...]
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Your bitesize update on the latest People News and Moves featured on Gorkana News: LEWIS appoints Daniel Cohen to senior vice president LEWIS has appointed Grayling’s Daniel [...]
LEWIS appoints Daniel Cohen to senior vice president
LEWIS has appointed Grayling’s Daniel Cohen as its senior vice president EMEA brand to expand the agency’s consumer brand and digital businesses. Cohen will begin [...]
FleishmanHillard Fishburn promotes Steph Bailey to MD
FleishmanHillard Fishburn has promoted Steph Bailey to MD and hired another senior director and partner, Michael Hartt. Bailey is now the managing director of the [...]
Teneo Blue Rubicon’s Jon Priestley joins FTI Consulting’s digital practice
FTI Consulting has appointed Jon Priestley as managing director of its digital practice to spearhead new initiatives across the business. Previously Priestley was associate [...]
MHP appoints Barnaby Fry as head of crisis
MHP Communications has enhanced its crisis comms offer with the appointment of Barnaby Fry as head of crisis. Fry, currently an MD at MHP, has 20 years’ experience in [...]
Funeralbooker appoints first head of PR
Start-up disruptor brand Funeralbooker has brought in Jo Ganly-Hilaire as its first head of PR and Antoni Swidlicki as content marketing manager. Funeralbooker launched in [...]
This week’s top people news on Gorkana News
Your bite-sized update on the people news and moves featured on Gorkana News this week. Ruder Finn UK appoints Shelley Facius as head of technology Juice PR founder Shelley [...]
Ruder Finn launches healthtech practice
Ruder Finn has launched Bloom Health, a new speciality practice focused exclusively on healthtech. Nicole Pariser, the former director of global PR for Medidata, will support [...]
Finsbury makes Sara Evans partner
Finsbury has named Sara Evans as partner in the company’s growing capital markets and transaction communications practice in the United States. Paul Holmes, CEO, North America [...]
The Climate Group makes two senior comms hires
International not-for-profit, The Climate Group, has hired Luke Herbert as director of international communications and Nazneen Nawaz as head of media and corporate [...]
Ruder Finn UK appoints Shelley Facius as head of technology
Juice PR founder Shelley Facius has joined Ruder Finn as its new head of technology. She will be responsible for growing the practice, working with the agency’s UK and [...]
Cicero’s Iain Anderson joins Institute of Business Ethics advisory council
Iain Anderson, executive chairman of communications consultancy Cicero Group, has joined the Institute of Business Ethics’ (IBE) advisory council. The advisory council [...]
Lottoland hires Laura Pearson as head of corporate affairs
Lottoland has hired Camelot’s Laura Pearson as head of corporate affairs. She will join the organisation in May. Pearson was head of global corporate affairs at Camelot, [...]
Highland Marketing hires strategy and content director
PR and marketing agency Highland Marketing has appointed Lyn Whitfield to the new role of strategy and content director. A former journalist, Whitfield has specialised in [...]
Nissan Europe hires Microsoft’s Jesse Verstraete
Nissan has hired Jesse Verstraete, currently director of corporate communications for Microsoft Asia, as its new general manager of corporate communications and CSR for [...]
Katie Baldwin leaves Yorkshire Post for NHS comms role
Katie Baldwin is leaving her position as a health reporter at the Yorkshire Evening Post/Yorkshire Post for a senior communications officer role at NHS Digital, the new name [...]
BritainThinks hires associate director
International insight and strategy consultancy BritainThinks has added Holly Wicks to its team as an associate director. Wicks, who previously worked as a research team leader [...]