PROI appoints new VPs at Helsinki annual meeting

Public Relations Organisation International, Inc. (PROI), the world’s leading partnership of independent public relations consultancies, has appointed two new Vice- Presidents, re-elected one of its Vice-Presidents and re-appointed its Global Development Group Chair according to PROI President Bob Frause, Chairman of US based Frause.

 

Elected at PROI’s Annual Meeting in Helsinki were Michaela Benedigova, Vice-President, PROI (EMEA Region) and Neil Green as Vice-President (APAC Region). Concurrently Jean Leopold Schuybroek was elected Chair of PROI’s Global Development Group while Rachel McCallister was re-elected as Vice-President for The Americas Region.

 

Michaela Benedigova is the Managing Director of Seesame, PROI’s Partner office in Bratislava,Slovakia while Neil Green is Managing Partner of Senate/SHJ with multiple offices in New Zealand and Australia. Rachel McCallister is Chairman of MPRM in Los Angeles, one of California’s major independent public relations agencies.

 

Jean Leopold Schuybroek, a past-President of PROI, is Executive Chairman of Brussels based Interel as well as President of the International Communications Consultancy Organisation (ICCO). He will continue to spearhead global development for PROI as Chairman of a multimember Global Development Team.

 

Other directors representing PROI’s Partners on PROI’s Management Board are Ciro Reis,President of Imagem Corporativa, one of Brazil’s major communications agencies based in Sao Paulo and with additional offices in Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia, Ana Margarida Ximenes, Country Manager for Inforpress, the largest public relations agency in Iberia with nine offices throughout Spain and Portugal and Richard Tsang, Chairman and Managing Director of the Strategic Public Relations Group with offices in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.