NEW YORK: Fleishman-Hillard has hired Robert Dowling, president of Weber Shandwick's New York operations, as general manager and senior partner of its New York office and president of its Eastern region.

F-H also promoted Ron Guirguis, currently SVP and senior partner at the Omnicom firm, to deputy GM of the New York office. Guirguis started at F-H in Canada in 1999. He will continue to lead the New York office's corporate and public affairs group while he supports Dowling in the operational ...