- Judi Murphy, co-founder, was recently named senior vice president of Murphy Associates, Your Marketing Department in Brookfield Murphy co-founded the firm with her husband in 1992 and has over 20 years of experience in innovation in marketing and sales management, corporate and personal branding, and thought leadership.
- Nelson Schmidt Inc., Milwaukee, has hired Jason Gantner as production manager and Eli Adams as an interactive developer. Gantner has more than 15 years of experience in advertising and production.
- Brookfield-based Celtic, Inc., has promoted Marc Bennett to account executive. He joined Celtic as an account coordinator in May 2008.
Wynnie Zuchowski has joined Brookfield-based Bader Rutter & Associates as a group leader in the agency’s account management department. She has more than 18 years of account management experience on both the agency and client sides, most recently as a senior global marketing manager with an office of New Jersey-based Covance Laboratories. - The Falk Group Public Relations, Milwaukee, has added Staci Said and Lucky Tomaszek as account executives to its staff. Said comes to the agency having served in both the non-profit sector and PR/advertising agencies. Tomaszek has ten years of experience in journalism and non-profit communication. Falk Group has also opened a satellite office in the western Chicago suburb of Wheaton to better serve its Illinois-based clients.
- Marketing and communications agency Jacobson Rost, Milwaukee, has added marketing and media strategist Paula Hunsche as executive media director. Hunsche joins Jacobson Rost after serving in an Interim Managing Director, Client Leadership role at Mindshare where she was responsible for spearheading U.S. communications plans for BP and advising them on key approaches following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon incident. Previously, she served as a leading Communications Architect with Starcom MediaVest Group for more than a decade on leading brands including Kellogg’s, Allstate, Del Monte, H.J. Heinz and Procter & Gamble. The firm has also added Nathan Chow, production artist; Ryann Flynn, associate copywriter; and Matthew Overton and Lexi Wachs, associate art directors; to the firm’s Milwaukee office
- Vollrath Associates Inc., Milwaukee, has added Casey Schaak as assistant account executive. Prior to joining Vollrath Associates, Casey worked at Johnson Controls as a corporate communications intern.
- Brookfield-based Bader Rutter & Associates has added two new associates to its team. Gardner Hatch has joined the agency’s public relations department as a group leader. He has more than 20 years of experience leading campaigns for agricultural, chemical, industrial and other business-to-business companies. Dan Wolf has been hired as a senior production manager. Wolf brings with him more than 14 years of production experience to the agency.
- Meyer & Wallis has named Tod Kinunen as chief financial officer. He has nearly twenty years of financial experience within the advertising industry and brings a high level of technology and financial planning knowledge to the position. Meyer & Wallis has office locations in Milwaukee and in Indianapolis, Ind.
