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By The Hill Staff
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Posted: 10/24/07 07:01 PM [ET] |
•Dean Aguillen will join Ogilvy Government Relations as senior vice president in December. Aguillen is a senior adviser and director of member services for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). The aide joined Pelosi’s staff after her 2002 election as Democratic whip.
•Four veteran Republican public relations professionals have founded a new communications firm, HDMK. The firm’s founders — Terry Holt, Trent Duffy, Jim Morrell and Chad Kolton — all have experience either in the Bush administration or House Republican leadership.
•The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has welcomed three new hires to its Washington office: Georgia Noone as deputy director, Michael Macleod-Ball as chief legislative and policy counsel, and Joanne Lin as legislative counsel. Noone comes from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Macleod-Ball was most recently the executive director of the ACLU of Alaska Foundation; and Lin joins the group from Legal Momentum, a women’s rights organization.
•Robert Tai has joined Google as a policy analyst in its Washington office. Before joining the Internet giant, Tai was the manager of cyber crime prevention at the Business Software Alliance.
•Luis Burguillo Jr. has been hired by the National Head Start Association (NHSA) as its new director of government affairs. Prior to joining NHSA, Burguillo was a program manager and policy adviser for ASPIRA Inc., a national Hispanic education foundation.
•Sule Akyüz has been hired by Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz as a member of its corporate mergers and acquisitions group. Akyüz, an international transactions and trade expert, has advised key manufacturing companies in Turkey.
•Alston & Bird has hired Jeffrey L. Hare and Laura R. Biddle, both formerly of Thacher Proffitt & Wood. Hare will be a partner, while Biddle will serve as counsel at their new firm. The two new attorneys will work in Alston & Bird’s financial services group. |
