NU-Q Dean and CEO Everette Dennis with newly appointed members of the leadership team
Northwestern University in Qatar has added two executives to its leadership team to start the New Year.
Kathryn B Symank and Paul F Reilly join NU-Q in January 2014 as Chief Operations Officer and Director of Media Strategy, Marketing and Communication, respectively.
Symank joins NU-Q from Texas A&M University’s home campus in College Station, Texas, where she held the position of Associate Vice President for Human Resources and Administrative Services. She has extensive administrative experience across operational fields such as finance, human resources, student services and other related areas.
Symank succeeds David Carr, a founding leader of NU-Q, who is returning to the Northwestern Evanston campus where he has been appointed as associate vice president of cyber infrastructure.
Reilly, a respected leader in advertising is NU-Q’s first Director of Media Strategy, Marketing and Communication. He comes to NU-Q from BBDO New York, where he was an Executive Vice President and Senior Director.
About Symank, NU-Q’s dean and CEO, Everette E Dennis, said, “I am delighted to welcome such an experienced professional to the NU-Q leadership team. She is known for fostering continuous improvements, and has accumulated extensive operational experience over the past two decades. I am confident that her work at NU-Q will serve to strengthen both our individual and organisational capacity.”
“As a school of communication and journalism, NU-Q’s central mission is interlinked with its public and media relations functions,” commented Dean Dennis. “Reilly is noted among his peers for creative thinking and strategic vision, as well as for collaborative team building and empowering his associates. It is these qualities that I believe will greatly benefit NU-Q in effectively projecting the collective work of faculty, students and leadership to the Northwestern and Qatar communities, as well as the wider region.”
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