ALT Mission North names Danny Maiello as the agency’s first chief corporate affairs officer. He's a veteran of Highwire, Dentsu, BCW Global, PwC, FleishmanHillard and CNN... DCI brings on Dan Savickas as a director on its strategic alliances team... Reputation Advisors International adds Sharon Koh, founder of Singapore-based boutique advisory firm The Brand Imprint, as its newest member.

ALT Preston Spire picks up Meet Minneapolis, the city's DMO, in partnership with the Minneapolis Tourism Improvement District... Diffusion is tapped as PR agency of record for 70mai and STACK... Quigley-Simpson, an LA-based agency that also operates from New York, expands its relationship with energy technology company Generac, now serving as its digital agency of record.

ALT Montgomery County’s Destination Marketing Organization wants to hire a firm for a brand and identity refresh so it can better promote itself to leisure travelers, meeting planners, sporting events and group tour audiences.

ALT ICR Inc. works for LongRange Capital as the Stamford private equity firm acquires Pizza Hut from Yum Brands for $1.5B.

ALT TEAM LEWIS launches Catalyst, a multi-million-dollar fund and service designed to support marketing and communications agencies under financial pressure... Jasper, a marketing agents platform, unveils its end-to-end GEO Agent... H/Advisors launches an office in Warsaw, marking its entry into the Polish market.

ALT Mercury has signed Institut Macaya, a Haitian think tank organized by business leaders to end the cycle of crises that have long ravaged the Caribbean country.

ALT El Paso is looking for a firm to run its tourism promotion program, which focuses on sports and special events.

ALT FGS Global handles Fox Corp. as it agrees to acquire The Roku Channel, which relies on Joele Frank, in a deal valued at $22B.

ALT Chartwell Strategy Group is providing government relations and strategic communications services to Colombia to strengthen its relations with the US.

ALT The National Association of Corporate Directors has named Brunswick Group veteran Mohamed Younis senior VP of content.

ALT Highwire names Kelly Losko as CFO. Losko joins the agency from OLIVER Agency, where she was CFO, North America... TCW, a Los-Angeles based financial services company, brings on Lindsay DeLarme as global head of marketing & communications. DeLarme previously spending 13 years at Oaktree Capital, most recently serving as head of marketing and communications... o9 Solutions, developer of the “Digital Brain,” names Adriel Sanchez CMO, a newly created position at the company.

ALT Campstories picks up Visit Jackson Hole, the official destination marketing and management organization for the Jackson Hole valley in Wyoming... WOC | Signal signs on to work with Impact Washington, a statewide, nonprofit manufacturing extension partnership center... HLK, an integrated brand and marketing shop, lands Byrna Technologies, a personal defense technology company.

ALT Heidi Krupp is celebrating 30 years running her own agency which began in a studio apartment in Hoboken, NJ funded by selling her car for $5,000. Krupp reminisces about taking her first step, experience gained working in TV, ethos for her agency and how she views the modern media landscape.

ALT Synthetic Data Is Having a Moment. Why That Should Concern Communicators by Nathan Richter, Wakefield

ALT HUNTER promotes Gigi García Russo to president and Michael Lamp to chief digital & transformation officer.... Cars.com Inc. a car-shopping marketplace, names Sarah Kettler CMO, effective June 15...The Trade Desk, an advertising tech company, appoints Sarah Gavin as CMO and EVP.

ALT Syracuse’s SUNY Upstate Medical University is budgeting up to $125K for crisis management training services.

ALT Everything-PR's inaugural AI Communications 100 maps the figures — most of whom are not in the PR profession — whose decisions now influence whether the work the profession produces gets surfaced when AI engines answer questions about a category.

ALT Walker Sands acquires RevPartners, a revenue operations (RevOps) and GTM engineering firm... FoodMix Marketing Communications, a B2B and B2C full-service food and beverage marketing agency, transitions its ownership to Sara Hagen and Nadine Baarstad... Dynasty Financial Partners launches Dynasty Consulting Group, which will focus on helping RIAs accelerate growth and create enterprise value.