We are pleased to have these three, talented individuals leading our commercial marine services. They bring a lot of experience and customer focus to each business line.

SEATTLE (PRWEB)
January 15, 2020

To better support the diverse needs of customers in the maritime industry, Crowley Maritime Corp. announced today that it has realigned its marine services organization and introduced new leadership.

Crowley Marine Services, part of the company’s Shipping group, will now be comprised of three distinct, yet interrelated business segments: offshore services, ship assist and tanker escort, and engineering services – those provided by Crowley and subsidiary Jensen Maritime Consultants. Jeff Andreini, Porter Sesnon and Coulston “Cole” van Gundy have been appointed to top leadership positions in each of these units respectively.

Andreini has rejoined Crowley after serving four years as the chief financial officer for Ardent Holdings, a global marine salvage business in which Crowley previously had a 50 percent ownership position. With Crowley, he now has profit and loss responsibilities for the company’s offshore division, which includes Crowley’s ocean-class tugboat and flat-deck barge fleets. This unit provides specialized cargo transportation to the offshore energy sector and the emerging U.S. offshore wind market. He will be based in Houston and report to Johan Sperling, vice president of marine services.

Sesnon is taking the lead role for the group’s ship assist and tanker escort services, which are provided in all major West Coast ports from north Puget Sound, Wash., to San Diego, Calif. Utilizing one of the most advanced fleets of ship assist and tanker escort tugs in North America, Crowley safely assists the ships through some of the tightest, most environmentally-sensitive waterways in the world. Crowley entered the ship assist business at the start of the 20th century, operating steam-powered tugs in San Francisco Bay in 1906. Sesnon, who will have profit and loss responsibilities for the division, will be based in Seattle and report to Sperling.

Within Crowley’s engineering group, van Gundy is taking the leadership role in business development to grow the company’s third-party project and construction management services, as well as engineering and design-related offerings provided by both Crowley and Seattle-based Jensen Maritime. Van Gundy will be based in Seattle and report to Jay Edgar, vice president of Jensen.

“We are pleased to have these three, talented individuals leading our commercial marine services,” said Sperling. “They bring a lot of experience and customer focus to each business line.”

“With their leadership and our business structure, we’re not only going to provide routine, daily marine services, but we’ll be able to collaborate to provide custom solutions to maritime-related challenges – whether that’s designing, building and operating vessels, installing an offshore wind farm, or towing and positioning a TLP for installation,” Sperling added.

Prior to joining Ardent, Andreini served at Crowley for 35 years beginning as a dispatcher/administration assistant in San Francisco and Long Beach for Crowley’s tug and barge services. He spent 20 years in Crowley’s Seattle office in numerous roles including director of finance for harbor services, manager of West Coast tug dispatch, and manager of business development. In 2013, Andreini relocated to Jacksonville to become the director of finance and strategic planning for the company’s solutions business unit before taking the position at Ardent. He earned a bachelor’s degree in finance and a master’s degree in business administration.

Prior to joining Crowley, Sesnon worked for five years as a corporate lawyer at K&L Gates LLP in Seattle where he represented private and public companies in a variety of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, venture capital financing, corporate restructurings, joint ventures, and public offerings. Sesnon joined Crowley in August 2018 as a director of business development for the company’s marine services group and has been responsible for growing Crowley’s ship assist and escort services for tankers, container ships and other vessels on the U.S. West Coast.

Van Gundy joined Crowley in 2006 as an engineer supporting vessels managed from the Pacific Northwest. His first assignment was to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, supporting Crowley’s North Slope operations, and he later began supporting harbor and ocean tugs as a chief engineer. Moving ashore, van Gundy supported both Crowley and third-party vessel repair and new construction management programs. Most recently he managed Crowley’s offshore energy business development. Van Gundy holds his project management professional credential and is a graduate from the California Maritime Academy, where he earned a bachelor’s of science degree and master of science degree in transportation and engineering management, as well as his U.S. Coast Guard engineering license.

About Crowley

Jacksonville-based Crowley Holdings Inc., a holding company of the 128-year-old Crowley Maritime Corporation, is a privately held family- and employee-owned company that provides government, marine, energy and logistics services in domestic and international markets. Crowley operates under four business units: Crowley Logistics, a logistics supply chain division that includes ocean liner services; Crowley Shipping, which encompasses ownership, operations and management of conventional and dual fuel (LNG) vessels, including tankers, container ships, multipurpose, tugboats and barges; engineering; project management; and naval architecture through its subsidiary Jensen Maritime; Crowley Fuels, a fuel transportation, distribution and sales division that also provides liquefied natural gas (LNG) and related services; and Crowley Solutions, which focuses on global government services and program management, government ship management, expeditionary logistics and government-oriented freight transportation services. Additional information about Crowley, its subsidiaries and business units may be found at http://www.crowley.com.

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“The merger enabled us to deliver an even greater breadth of expertise and capabilities to achieve those goals by bringing enhanced value to clients, particularly those in high-touch and highly-regulated industries such as Sports, Entertainment, Cannabis, Alcohol/Beverage and FinTech.”

NEW YORK (PRWEB)
January 15, 2020

Wise Public Relations, Inc. (Wise PR), the integrated marketing agency, announced today that it has joined forces with industry veteran Robert Zimmerman and his boutique consultancy, Zimmerman Strategic Communications. Zimmerman will serve as Global Managing Director and Chief of Staff, responsible for overseeing Wise staff, operations, and client relations while expanding and strengthening Wise PR’s Sports, Media, Entertainment and Crisis/Reputation Management capabilities.

Both Wise and Zimmerman possess deep experience across the Cannabis, Technology, Sports, Media, Entertainment, FinTech, Crisis, and Consumer Lifestyle industries. The successful collaboration between the two companies on a number of clients over the past several years led naturally to this merger. As part of the merger, Zimmerman brings with him his client base that includes FIA Formula E and others.

“After laying a more than 12-year foundation of persistent, organic and measured growth delivering world-class marketing communications to some of the best clients, we’ve reached an inflection point,” said Harrison Wise, Founder and President of Wise Public Relations. “We are an ambitious team with our sights set on achieving market and category leadership. The merger enabled us to deliver an even greater breadth of expertise and capabilities to achieve those goals by bringing enhanced value to clients, particularly those in high-touch and highly-regulated industries such as Sports, Entertainment, Cannabis, Alcohol/Beverage and FinTech.”

“With Robert now an integral part of our senior leadership team our collective focus will be on bringing together the best strategy, tools and processes to enable our employees to deliver peak performance across, client, business & leadership goals both now and in the future,” added Wise.

“Harrison has done a fantastic job establishing Wise PR whose entrepreneurial values, creative spirit, and commitment to achieving client goals have made the company into a leading agency in key growth sectors, first with ad/marketing technology, FinTech and now in the Cannabis vertical,” said Zimmerman. “As Wise is at a new inflection point in its growth, I look forward to further building the agency’s brand, capabilities, and talent, offering clients a full-breadth of best-in-class branding, content, experiential and other integrated marketing services that will transform their businesses for the future.”

Zimmerman, who launched his consultancy in 2012, has represented such marquis clients as FIA Formula E Racing, Tough Mudder, Omnigon, Benjamin Restaurant Group, USGA, Jeff Jenkins Productions, You On Demand, Driver Digital and ACES Inc. He is also a partner in PR, Marketing and Media Czars, the online PR and Marketing community. From 2008-2012, Zimmerman served as the Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications, PR and Public Affairs for WWE. In that role, he ran the sports entertainment giant’s global communications, public affairs, and crisis management operations, where he conceived and launched WWE’s anti-bullying initiative – “Be a S.T.A.R” – which was praised in the Congressional Record; received numerous local and state accolades, as well as recognized by PR News as one of the “Best Cause Branding Campaigns.” Prior to WWE, he held senior executive roles at leading PR agencies serving as a trusted advisor to C-level executives and has helped guide some of the world’s best-known brands, products and personalities including Howard Stern, The Wall Street Journal Weekend Edition, FOX News, Donatella and Allegra Versace, House of Blues, Jay Leno, Bacardi, HGTV, Sean “Diddy” Combs, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, Martin Guitars, Ziff-Davis, Foxwoods Resort and Casino, Wenner Media, Michael Eisner, and Sirius XM. Zimmerman holds a BA in Communications from the University of Pennsylvania.

About Wise Public Relations, Inc.

Founded in 2007, everything Wise Public Relations, Inc. does is purpose-driven to meet the precise needs of a particular client. And, of course, to resonate with the client’s target audiences.

From brand development and content creation, to social engagement and media relations, every step in the marketing process is executed with an unwavering commitment to a guiding purpose: Why your brand exists. As all these capabilities serve as the connective tissue in the Wise ecosystem, it’s clear to see how each step in the integrated marketing communications process must be done with intent and purpose.

Wise works across the Sports, Media, Entertainment, Technology and Cannabis verticals and was recently named by the Observer for the second year in a row as one of the most powerful PR firms in Cannabis. Wise has offices in NYC and LA. For more information visit http://www.wisepublicrelations.com.

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Eisenhower Fellowships 2020 USA Fellows

“These dynamic young doers join a vast network of Eisenhower Fellows who for more than six decades have used creative, collaborative solutions to address global challenges,” said Eisenhower Fellowships Chairman Robert M. Gates, former U.S. secretary of defense.

PHILADELPHIA (PRWEB)
January 15, 2020

Eisenhower Fellowships has selected 10 accomplished mid-career professionals from the worlds of education, finance, the arts, and technology to travel overseas in its 2020 USA Fellowship Program.

Beginning in spring 2020, these diverse American leaders will travel independently to one or two countries overseas, broadening their horizons as they pursue individual projects that will generate lasting impact in their communities. These USA Fellows will meet with Eisenhower Fellows abroad, unlocking a lifelong connection to an influential global network of like-minded change agents.

“These dynamic young doers join a vast network of Eisenhower Fellows who for more than six decades have used creative, collaborative solutions to address global challenges,” said Eisenhower Fellowships Chairman Robert M. Gates, former U.S. secretary of defense.

From the creation of a national community of gardeners to support healthy ecosystems, to addressing the twin challenges of homelessness and public health, the 2020 Eisenhower USA Fellows will travel to countries across Europe, Asia, Africa and the South Pacific to advance real change here at home in the United States.

“In a time of growing nationalism and retrenchment in many countries, I am confident these outstanding leaders will use their time overseas to build new bridges of understanding and then bring back and apply what they learn to better their communities,” said Eisenhower Fellowships President George de Lama.

The 2020 Eisenhower USA Fellows are:

Mohamed Abdel-Kader | Washington, DC

Executive Director, Stevens Initiative, Aspen Institute

Natalia Crujeiras | Miami, FL

Executive Director of Cultural Affairs, Miami Dade College

Sandy Fernandez | New York, NY

Director, North America, MasterCard Center for Inclusive Growth

Margaret Fry | San Francisco, CA

Medical Director, Pediatric Service Line, Palo Alto Medical Foundation

Rachel Greenberger | Boston, MA

Director, Food Sol, Babson College

Christopher Gruits | Philadelphia, PA

Executive and Artistic Director, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

Matthew Rader | Philadelphia, PA

President, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

Timothy Reeves| St. Louis, MO

Assistant Treasurer and Director of Investor Relations, Emerson Electric

Anita Watkins | Raleigh, NC

Director of Strategic Innovation, UNC REX/REX Health Ventures

Kuliva Wilburn | Chicago, IL

Chief Executive Officer and President, Wilburn Strategic Solutions

Now in its 66th year and named for America’s 34th president, Eisenhower Fellowships brings together innovative leaders from all fields from around the globe who tackle big challenges to better the world around them. Since 1953, more than 2,400 mid-career leaders from 115 countries have benefited from the unique, customized experience of an Eisenhower Fellowship.

Eisenhower Fellowships identifies, empowers and connects innovative leaders through a transformative fellowship experience and lifelong engagement in a global network of dynamic change agents committed to creating a world more peaceful, prosperous and just.

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Brian Ko Joins AUDIENCEX as CCO

“Brian brings to his new role a truly exceptional career, spanning digital media, marketing and ad tech, one that has deep relevance for many of our growth and company initiatives in 2020,” said Jason Wulfsohn, Co-Founder & COO, AUDIENCEX.

LOS ANGELES (PRWEB)
January 15, 2020

AUDIENCEX, the largest independent trading desk built for performance marketers, today announced that industry veteran Brian Ko has joined their executive team as Chief Commercial Officer. In his new position, Brian will play a key role at AUDIENCEX, overseeing the Sales, Strategy, Client Services, and Marketing teams.

This hire comes on the heels of AUDIENCEX’s announcement of a multi-million dollar investment from Decathlon Capital Partners to drive continued company growth and market expansion. The funding will be used to provide additional scale to the sales teams, drive greater in-market visibility and geographical expansion, and further enable the ongoing development of innovative product solutions.

“We are continuing to invest in our products and our people, and these investments are having a clear impact on our ongoing expansion, predicated on our ability to deliver exceptional performance for our customers,” said AUDIENCEX CEO and co-founder Reeve Benaron.

“We very much look forward to Brian joining the team and helping to further evolve our company model. With this latest addition to our executive team, coupled with investment from Decathlon, we expect to significantly build on the growth we saw in 2019,” said AUDIENCEX COO and co-founder Jason Wulfsohn.

During his career Brian has led revenue, strategy, and product growth for multiple prominent DSP, DMP and SSP programmatic platforms, and managed numerous enterprise-level brand relationships within top global holding company agencies, including stints as Managing Partner and Head of Business at WPP, IPG, and Publicis Holding Companies. In his most recent role, Brian led the revenue team at Teads, a native video marketplace platform, prior to which he was running platform sales at Turn.

“I am thrilled to be joining the AUDIENCEX team as the company continues to thrive and grow,” said Ko. “Their powerfully differentiated offering of strategic and unified performance marketing solutions across channels is creating enormous value for agencies and advertisers.”

Named one of the Fastest Growing and Most Successful Companies in America by both Deloitte and Inc. 5000 in 2019, AUDIENCEX’s continued success has been driven by its independent and unbiased approach to programmatic advertising. The company’s trading desk, tdX, is powered by a proprietary technology that assesses 18 enterprise-level programmatic, search, and social advertising platforms, based on millions of aggregated data points, which in turn helps them to identify the best performing platforms for each marketing campaign.

“Brian brings to his new role a truly exceptional career, spanning digital media, marketing and ad tech, one that has deep relevance for many of our growth and company initiatives in 2020. Brian has a proven leadership ability to help scale businesses like ours and drive continued rapid market expansion” said Jason Wulfsohn, COO and Co-Founder of AUDIENCEX.

About AUDIENCEX

AUDIENCEX is a leading digital advertising partner for brands and agencies. We offer strategic, unbiased, omnichannel performance solutions, and create value for our clients by delivering a combination of high-impact creative, innovative technology, targeted media buying, and data-driven analysis to help them effectively target and acquire customers throughout the entire purchase funnel. Named one of the Fastest Growing and Most Successful Companies in America by both Deloitte and Inc. 5000 in 2019, AUDIENCEX is headquartered in Los Angeles and operates in offices throughout North America, including New York, Denver, Dallas and Toronto. For more information visit http://www.audiencex.com.

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