H&K's Bleeker

Even more change at Hill & Knowlton to announce – Andrew Bleeker has joined the firm as global digital practice director. He will report to Jack Martin, H&K chairman and CEO. The previous director, Julie Atherton, is now Martin’s global senior adviser on integrated communications.

Bleeker was the founder and principal at Bully Pulpit Interactive and served as director of Internet advertising for Obama for America during the President’s 2008 campaign. He was responsible for all of the online advertising for the campaign and the Democratic National Committee.

Dewey Square Group has named Karen Breslau principal in the communications practice in California. She was recently the director of executive comms for the office of the president of the University of California. She has also served at Newsweek‘s San Francisco bureau chief.

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New York-based social media agency SS+K has entered into a joint venture with D.C.-based online marketing firm Bully Pulpit Interactive.

Bully Pulpit Interactive was founded by Andrew Bleecker, the former director of online advertising for the Obama campaign and the director of new media for the inauguration.

The move expands SS+K’s D.C. presence, with the firm moving to a new Rhode Island Ave office in January. In addition, there are new additions to the outpost, including Graves Spindler, a former new media director at the Department of Homeland Security who is joining as an account supervisor.