Emily Deville takes up opportunity as Comms and Brand Partner

THE ICONIC has promoted Alena Darcy to Head of Communications and PR. She has been with the company for nearly five years, most recently as Senior Communications and PR Manager. Prior to this, she worked in-house at David Jones and also consulted agency-side for AMPR and Sibling (WPP).

Rituraj Sapkota has been named Communications Lead - Intergenerational Strategic Plan at NFP, Central Pacific Collective. He has recently finished a stint at DairyNZ as Senior Corporate Communications and Media Advisor. Prior to this, Rituraj worked in communication roles in central as well as local government, following his time as a multimedia journalist at Whakaata Māori.

Andy Walsh has joined Swift as Media Relations Lead, Asia-Pacific.

Based in Kuala Lumpur, he leads strategic communications and press engagement for the company.

Andy brings more than a decade of communications experience across the finance, government, and higher education sectors spanning Australia and the U.K. Prior to this, he was a Journalist.