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Council of Public Relations Firms Names 2015 Board of Directors [Professional Services Close - Up](Professional Services Close - Up Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) The Council of Public Relations Firms (Council) reported the election of its new officers and directors. According to a media release, the new Chair of the Council is Christopher Graves, Global Chairman of Ogilvy Public Relations. Newly promoted to chairman at Ogilvy PR, Graves served for five years as its Global CEO and for five as its Asia-Pacific Regional CEO. Joining Graves as executive officers are Aaron Schoenherr (Greentarget) as secretary and Bryan Harris (Taylor) as treasurer. The Council also announced the election of its new board members, all CEOs/Principals of their firms: Virginia Devlin (Current), Carrie Jones (JPA Health Communications), Daryl McCullough (Citizen Relations), Todd Hansen (O'Malley Hansen Communications), Ron Sachs (Sachs Media Group) and Karen van Bergen (Porter Novelli). Continuing directors are: Matthew Harrington (Edelman), Aaron Kwittken (Kwittken + Company Worldwide), Maureen Lippe (Lippe Taylor), Jason Mandell (LaunchSquad), Paul Newman (MSLGROUP), Marian Salzman (Havas PR), Dave Senay (FleishmanHillard), C. Renzi Stone (Saxum) and Mark Thorne (Hill+Knowlton Strategies). "I am so thrilled and honored," remarked Graves, "to serve among the best and the brightest of our industry, and to do so at a time when the confluence of content, social, mobile and behavioral understanding makes what we do the center of the earned influence universe." "We appreciate outgoing Chair Dave Senay's vision and commitment, and the dedication of the entire board," said Kathy Cripps, President, Council of Public Relations Firms. "We look forward to starting our work with Chris. As our Critical Issues Forum Chair for the past two years, Chris has shown remarkable energy, passion and understanding of our industry. He is the perfect person to lead our organization into the future." More information: www.prfirms.org ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) (c) 2014 ProQuest Information and Learning Company; All Rights Reserved. |