MOVERS SHAKERS
By Adnews Staff
The office of Benchmark Porter Novelli features a few new faces following the addition of ten new hires to the agency. Joaquim Meneses joins Benchmark as senior editorial consultant. Most recently he was a senior writer with Computing Canada. Jenny Hewlett joins Benchmark as a senior healthcare consultant. Previously, she was a consultant at Veritas Communications. Eric Tang is appointed senior e-business consultant joining the agency from Goodman Communications where he worked as a consultant and Rina Cortese is appointed senior e-commerce consultant after previously managing corporate communications for the Bank of Montreal. Pam Jones joins Benchmark as a corporate hardware consultant. Most recently, she co-ordinated corporate communications for Ingram Micro. Leigh Wagland, who joins Benchmark as consumer communication co-ordinator, most recently worked as a consultant at Veritas Communications. Oonagh Baerveldt is appointed consumer communications co-ordinator joining Benchmark from Cohn & Wolfe where she worked as communications co-ordinator and Derek Baker assumes the role of consumer technology communications co-ordinator after recently graduating from the public relations program at Humber College. Rounding out the new additions is Adrian Barrett and Jennifer DeMelo who join the agency's operations team providing support for Benchmark's consumer, healthcare and technology accounts.