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A familiar face in the PR/journalism ranks returns to Charlotte next month. Ken Gepfert is joining ad shop Luquire George Andrews. Gepfert, who has spent the last 13 years in various posts with The Wall Street Journal, will be VP of public relations at the firm.

“This was an opportunity to return home and to join a dynamic team at LGA,” he says. “It’s a good time to pursue another form of communications.”

Prior to his stint at the Journal, Gepfert worked at Wachovia predecessor First Union as a corporate spokesman for five years. “He’s the first job candidate we’ve ever had who investigated us more than we investigated him,” says Steve Luquire, LGA principal. “And he’s still taking the job.”