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# Agency and People Updates
- URL: https://capitolcommunicator.com/agency-and-people-updates/
- Published: 2014-12-09T19:22:52.000Z
- Updated: 2014-12-09T19:22:52.000Z
- Author: Guest Columnist
- Tags: Marketing, Agency, Communications, #Import 2026-10-08 18:46

**Claire Sheahan joins Avalere Health** in D.C. as Senior VP and head of Avalere Communications. Sheahan will lead Avalere Communications, a rapidly growing group within Avalere. For six years, Sheahan grew and then led the FleishmanHillard healthcare practice in D.C., serving clients in the pharmaceutical, payor, device, non-profit, and government sectors. She will join the company in January 2015.

**Columbia’s Maroon PR added Northern Safety & Industrial**, based in Frankfort, N.Y., a national distributor of personal protective equipment, safety and industrial supplies. Maroon will handle media relations, social media, video production and media buying.

**Baltimore’s Planit** added two new clients: Smartlink, a staffing and services company working with Fortune 100 communications companies; and Omnilert, creator of a mobile-based campus emergency notification system.