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463 Brings On New Partner, Hani Durzy

February 11, 2008 | 8:15 PM

The high-tech PR gurus at 463 Communications have hired a new partner for the bicoastal company's San Francisco office. Hani Durzy joins Sean Garrett who has been holding down the fort all by himself on the West Coast as the D.C. operation has grown and grown.

Garrett wrote on his blog that "once we got past Hani's obnoxious Red Sox Nation-isms, we knew that he would be the perfect compliment to our team and a great asset as we grow in the Bay Area." Durzy was most recently eBay's communications director, which prompted this e-mail exchange:

To: Sean Garrett
From: Andrew Noyes
Sent: Mon 11/02/2008 2:09 PM
Subject: Good get!

Did you buy your new colleague on eBay? If so, what was the highest bid? Heh!

From: Sean Garrett
To: Andrew Noyes
Sent: Mon 11/02/2008 5:27 PM
Subject: RE: Good get!

Zing! That is our whole plan. Buy low and sell high.

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