Most recently, communications director Hope Hicks, one of the president's most trusted advisers, decided to step down from her post. .
"Any suggestion that his motivations for public service have been anything other than to seek to improve the lives of the American people is simply wrong," said Ryan Murphy, the HHS adviser, who was previously a spokesman for Price in his personal office and most recently communications director for the House Budget Committee, of which Price is chairman.
Sarah Pompei, most recently the communications director for Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the House majority whip, will become the deputy communications director for regional press.
She had most recently been communications director at Anomaly, New York.
She had most recently led communications for the online and digital entertainment businesses at the Disney Interactive unit of the Walt Disney Company.
The hiring of Ms. Gollust, who had most recently been communications director for Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York, reunites her with Jeff Zucker, president at CNN Worldwide, with whom she worked when he was at "Today," NBC and NBCUniversal.
QGA has hired John Feehery, who spent 15 years working for the Republican House Leadership, as president of Quinn Gillespie Communications, and Jim Manley who spent 21 years working for Democratic Senators, most recently as communications adviser to Senate Majority leader Harry Reid.
Mr. Beck had most recently been chief communications officer at the Lighting Science Group.
Thomas Mattia will join Edelman to assume the duties of Mr. Hass, with the title of chairman of Edelman China; Mr. Mattia had most recently been chief communications officer at Yale University.
"It's clearly a long road ahead, and it's going to be a challenging race, but we feel very good about where things are, and we're going to have a lot of fun over the next year getting her message out," said Mo Elleithee, the campaign manager, who most recently worked as communications director for Governor-elect Mark Warner of Virginia.
In Atlanta, Nate Smeltz joined as vice president for Turner Sports content communications; he had most recently been director for communications at ESPN, which is owned by the Walt Disney Company and the Hearst Corporation.
