MDC Partners promotes Katie Kempner

NEW YORK: MDC Partners promoted Katie Kempner to SVP of corporate communications. Formerly VP of communications at MDC Partners, Kempner had also run the PR department for MDC Partners ad agency Crispin Porter & Bogusky since 1996. She will continue to work with CP&B on special projects but now works full-time for the parent company, MDC, where she will oversee its communications strategies and provide strategic communications counsel to all MDC Partners agencies.