The ACE Agency Inc. (ACE), specializing in public relations, marketing, and event production, is pleased to announce Weeda (Lutfi) Sanchez as Director of Marketing and Public Relations. Sanchez joins ACE from Modern Luxury, the nation’s largest luxury media company, where as Group Director of Marketing and Events, she led communications initiatives in the Southern California region for over eight years.

Bastion Collective, the largest independent communications group in Australia, announces the acquisition of growing Los Angeles-based research and consumer insights agency db5, now rebranded as Bastion db5. This move is the latest in a string of marketing and communications agency acquisitions in the US for Bastion Collective

Edelman announces Melissa Nelson, formerly president of Publicis Seattle, as Pacific Northwest president. 

L.E.R. Public Relations, NYC-based fashion PR firm announces Rich Ryan as account coordinator across menswear, womenswear and accessory accounts.