New York-based Risa Heller Communications has appointed former Netflix government Erika Masonhall as managing director to steer the corporate’s enlargement into Los Angeles.
Masonhall is the primary addition to the Los Angeles workplace as Risa Heller Communications seems to characterize extra leisure business figures, from manufacturing corporations to showrunners. Masonhall has 20 years of expertise in leisure, expertise, information and politics communications with main manufacturers.
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Based in 2011, Risa Heller Communications focuses on disaster and fame administration and represents company, institutional, actual property and non-profit organizations. It additionally handles purchasers from the worlds of academia, advocacy, hospitality, stay occasions, philanthropy, startups and expertise corporations.
Earlier than becoming a member of Risa Heller Communications, Masonhall spent 5 and a half years at Netflix main communications throughout content material, advertising and studio operations. She additionally served as VP of communications at NBC Information and as head of reports communications for Fb. Masonhall started her profession in Washington, DC as press secretary to Senator Joe Lieberman.
Masonhall labored for NBC Information from 2011 to 2017, beginning as a PR consultant for “Meet the Press” and “NBC Nightly Information” and rising to VP of communications. She left for Fb in early 2017. Eighteen months later, she moved to Netflix as a senior chief in content material communications. Masonhall’s tenure with Lieberman, who was Al Gore’s operating mate on the Democratic ticket in 2000, lasted from 2006 to 2011, throughout which era Lieberman served as an unbiased within the Senate.
Heller Communications’ present purchasers embrace Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard, AirBNB, DoorDash, Madison Sq. Backyard, the Match Group, Jeff Zucker’s RedBird IMI and former NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell.
(Photograph: Risa Heller, Erika Masonhall)
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