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# D.C. Agency Updates: Linda Roth Associates, Baretz+Brunelle and Hamilton Place Strategies
- URL: https://capitolcommunicator.com/d-c-agency-updates-linda-roth-associates-baretzbrunell-and-hamilton-place-strategies/
- Published: 2019-04-26T10:25:06.000Z
- Updated: 2019-04-28T21:00:31.000Z
- Author: Capitol Communicator
- Tags: People, Agency, #wp-upper-left-sponsored, #Import 2026-10-08 18:50

**D.C.-based Linda Roth Associates, Inc. (LRA) reports that Anthony Hesselius,**shown above**,** has been named president of the 35-year-old public relations and integrated marketing agency. Vice President **Avery Lewis** assumes a new leadership role, as founder **Linda Roth** becomes CEO. A 15-year veteran of the D.C. communications and marketing industry, Hesselius joined LRA in 2008 as vice president.

**Corporate communications agency Baretz+Brunelle is opening a D.C. office,** and it is handing the reins to a veteran marketer, reports the Washington Business Journal. The WBJ report says that “**Nicole Rodgers Houston**, a longtime director of marketing communications for D.C.-based law firm Arnold & Porter LLP, will serve has managing director of Baretz+Brunelle’s new office.

“Houston played a key role in Arnold & Porter’s 2017 merger with Kaye Scholer LLP and led many public relations campaigns for the law firm. She has also held leadership positions in the marketing departments of law firms Crowell & Moring LLP and Shaw Pittman LLP.

“New York-based Baretz+Brunelle launched in 2016 with a dozen communications professionals and has since nearly doubled its staff. The firm specializes in general corporate and crisis communications for law firms, high-profile businesses and individuals.”

**Hamilton Place Strategies added Bryan DeAngelis** as a managing director and **Stephanie Walstrom** as a director, reports O’Dwyer’s. DeAngelis comes from Kivvit, where he most recently served as senior director. Walstrom was previously global marketing director at advocacy nonprofit ONE Campaign.