Hirings at Webster PR, Fifth Third Bank

Mandell, Felso Join Webster & Associates
Webster & Associates Public Relations & Marketing has hired veteran publicist Anita Mandell as Senior Dir. Media/Marketing, and added Montine Felso as publicist.
Mandell’s 20-year career in the music industry began at PLA Media working with Brooks & Dunn and more. Later she shifted to in-house publicity duties for Alan Jackson’s management team. By 1996 she joined Decca Records (subsidiary of MCA Nashville) handling publicity for Lee Ann Womack, Gary Allan, Mark Chesnutt and Dolly Parton. Then Mandell enjoyed a seven-year tenure at Sony Music Nashville working with then Sony acts Mary Chapin Carpenter, Billy Gilman, Jack Ingram, Marty Stuart and Little Big Town.
Felso most recently lived in California and worked at the San Francisco Opera and at NBC Universal in Burbank, working on Days of our Lives and The Tonight Show. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Southern California with a B.A. in Communications.
Anson Lewis Joins Fifth Third’s Music Division

Music Row banking specialist Anson Lewis has joined Fifth Third Bank as a Credit Manager. His expertise is in handling wealth management issues for artists, songwriters, producers, publishers and performing rights organizations, as well as others in the entertainment and professional sports industries.
Lewis comes to Fifth Third with 13 years of professional experience in banking, including five years exclusively overseeing underwriting and credit approval for the largest and most complex loan requests within SunTrust’s sports and entertainment group.
Fifth Third launched its music and entertainment division a year ago when it hired producer Will Byrd to lead the group.