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PEOPLE BUSINESS of 2011 Columbia Law School graduates have jobs requiring law degrees vs. 55% nationwide Source: American Bar Association 94% EXECUTIVE MOVES Pegasus Solutions: David Millili, 41, has been promoted to chief executive of the technology services firm. He was previously chief Web officer and chief executive of Open Hospitality, a division of Pegasus. Sonnier and Castle: Adam F. Weiss, 52, joined the catering company as chief executive. He was previously a principal at Strategies for Catering Success. Wireless Generation: Larry Berger, 44, was promoted to executive chairman of the education-technology company, a newly created position. He was previously chief executive. Josh Reibel, 45, was promoted to chief executive. He was previously president and chief operating officer. Zachary Silverstein, 44, was promoted to chief operating officer. He was previously senior vice president. Newedge: Antoine Babule, 41, was promoted to chief executive and regional head for the Americas at the brokerage firm. He was previously chief administrative officer for Newedge Americas. Citibank: William Brown, 45, was named the bank’s market president for New York, a newly created position. He was previously the bank’s managing director and division manager of New York City and Boston. JPMorgan Asset Management: Robert Stark, 36, joined the bank as head of strategy and business development. He was previously global head of strategy and mergers and acquisitions at Russell Investments. Advertising Women of New York: Carol Watson, 52, was named president of the association. She is also the president and founder of TangerinWatson Inc. BlackRock Inc.: Susan Wagner, 51, joined the money management company’s board of directors. She was previously vice chairman for the firm. Rubin Museum of Art: Patrick Sears, 61, has been promoted to executive director at the museum. He was previously deputy director. Linda Dunne, 59, joined the museum as director of museum services and operations, a newly created position. She was previously acting director at the American Folk Art Museum. RAPP: Zihla Salinas, 33, was promoted by the marketing agency to chief development officer, U.S., a newly created position. She was previously senior vice president of strategy and relationship lead. Remark Media Inc.: Valerie Brown, 34, joined the digital media firm as senior director of marketing. She was previously director of digital MORGAN JOHNSTON has built up JetBlue’s socialmedia profile. buck ennis GOTHAM GIGS Plane speaking at JetBlue A young airline executive soars, by way of the Twittersphere For Morgan Johnston, his first day on the job at compared with American Airlines’ 300,000—Mr. ‘Social JetBlue Airways’ corporate communications Johnston has built a widely recognized socialdepartment presented an opportunity to reinvent media name for JetBlue. Facebook, YouTube and media the position. ¶ It was Valentine’s Day 2007, when Flickr are also on his radar. And fewer than 10% is our an ice storm left passengers stranded for 10 hours of mentions are negative, he said. ¶ By carefully JFK. Thrown straight into the the Twittersphere, canary in on the tarmac atMr. Johnston pitched YouTube as navigatingon disgruntled fliers,Mr. Johnston can recovery efforts, keep tabs communicate with the coal a way for the airline to communicate directly with JetBlue employees and respond to the occasional its customers. ¶ Now, as manager of corporate obnoxious request. (After the incident involving mine’ communications, the 34-year-old has dealt with a the pilot, one customer, who wasn’t even on the number of PR nightmares—from the infamous flight attendant who made a dramatic exit by emergency slide, beer in hand, to a pilot who had a breakdown on board and a resulting 10-passenger lawsuit—via the Internet. “Social media is our canary in the coal mine,” said Mr. Johnston, a Vermont native and self-proclaimed tech nerd. ¶ Twitter has become his company’s site of choice. By drawing more than 1.6 million followers— flight, asked for a future upgrade as a safety precaution.) ¶ Mr. Johnston, who enjoys buying new Apple products, shooting video and—what else—traveling, is slowly learning to put down the gadgets when he goes home to his wife in Westchester. ¶ “She’s mildly OK with my technology geekiness,” he said. “But she does expect when we’re traveling that my BlackBerry is away.” —ken m. christensen See EXECUTIVE MOVES on Page 10 July 9, 2012 | Crain’s New York Business | 9

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