Roll Call: Ketchum, DDB Financial, Cohn & Wolfe, and More

Jill Bratina Kermes has been named SVP of corporate affairs in Ketchum’s Washington D.C. office. She was most recently the VP of brand and corporate communications for Volkswagen of America. Her new job brings her back to Ketchum, where she worked on litigation communications in the late 1990s. She has also worked as comms director for former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and worked with Public Strategies.

In other Ketchum news, Ketchum Pleon Paris has merged with DDB Financial, another Omnicom firm.