OWB Hires Humble
Jeanette Morgan, executive director of the Oregon Wine Board (OWB), recently announced that Charles Humble has been named director of marketing and communications of the semi-independent state agency, which manages industry marketing, research and education.
Humble’s responsibilities include overseeing all OWB internal and external marketing and communications activities.
A native Oregonian, he previously was a senior vice president at Waggener Edstrom, a Bellevue, Washington-based public relations consultancy. Prior to that, he was president of Insync Communications, a Portland-based communications consultancy. He began his career as a journalist as a business reporter and editor at The Oregon Journal and The Oregonian prior to shifting careers to public relations. He is a graduate of Linfield College in McMinnville.