BMI has named Silvia Davi as vice president and head of strategic communications and marketing.

Davi, who is based in BMI’s New York headquarters will oversee the BMI Corporate Communications and Marketing Department. She joins BMI after serving as vice president and head of corporate communications and brand at professional services firm Marsh & McLennan Companies. Prior to that, she spent eight years at NASDAQ OMX as vice president, corporate communications and head of global broadcast media strategy.

Davi also has served as director of public relations at Instinet Group and as senior communications roles at Edelman and Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide.

Davi works as an adjunct professor in the Department of Journalism, Media Studies and Public Relations at Hofstra University.