Duke Energy Corporation has named Oscar Suris, president of public relations company Edelman's New York office, its next chief communications officer. Suris, 58, will join Charlotte-based Duke in mid-May, replacing Selim Bingol, who held the job for more than eight years before retiring in March. Suris will be a senior vice president, reporting to Louis Renjel, who became executive vice president for external affairs and communications in March.

Suris will lead the development of communications strategies that advance the company's brand and support its clean energy transition. This will include overseeing media relations, executive communications, employee communications, social media, advertising, issues management and business unit support, the company says. Suris, a native of Cuba, will be based in Charlotte, where he already lives.

His predecessor, Bingol, was named chief communications officer in December 2014. In 2015, Bingol launched a major advertising campaign for Duke themed power for your life. In 2017, he developed the "building the clean energy future" campaign that remains the company's main advertising effort six years later.

Suris is coming off more than a year as president of the biggest market operation for Edelman, which itself is the world's largest independently owned communications company. His experience includes 20 years of providing strategic counsel to Fortune 100 companies. He served as head of corporate communications at Wells Fargo & Co.

for nine years up until July 2018. He has also held senior leadership roles at Ford Motor Co. and AutoNation Inc. Suris has been named six times to PRWeek's "Power List" of the top 50 public relations professionals.