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Chris Lukach Named Senior VP and COO

Mount Laurel , NJ - June 1, 2011  - Christopher (Chris) Lukach, APR, has been promoted to senior vice president and chief operating officer of Anne Klein Communications Group, LLC. Lukach succeeds John J. Moscatelli, APR, Fellow PRSA, who becomes a senior counselor with the firm. Lukach has been a vice president and co-owner of the firm for four years. He joined the firm in 2004.

Lukach has headed account teams in the healthcare, information services, financial, chemical, education and public utilities industries. As COO, he will continue to serve clients while overseeing the operations of the agency. Anne Klein, founder of the firm, continues to be active in strategic planning, crisis and issues response, as well as new business and marketing efforts.  Moscatelli, although stepping away from the day to day operations of the firm, will continue to serve a variety of AKCG clients.

Lukach is the incoming president of the Philadelphia Public Relations Association, and is the youngest president in the organization’s 65-plus year history. He is a frequent lecturer and author on social media and leads the AKCG social media practice. He has been instrumental in developing crisis communications plans and consulting with clients facing crises, and serves as a key member of the firm’s spokesperson training team.

Lukach is a magna cum laude graduate of Rowan University and lives in Woodbury, N.J., with his wife, Melissa.

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Anne Klein Communications Group, LLC is a national public relations and marketing communications firm based in the Philadelphia region. AKCG is the exclusive Philadelphia-area member of Pinnacle Worldwide, an international network of independent public relations firms with offices in major cities across the United States and worldwide.