By Greg Hazley
Matt Klink, president of Los Angeles public affairs and PR firm Cerrell Associates, plans to step down from the firm after 20 years in October for a corporate affairs post at Philip Morris International in Switzerland.
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PMI has been a client of the firm.
“Leaving Cerrell Associates was a difficult decision,” said Klink, who joined CA in 1991. “However, the prospect of living and working in Luasanne, Switzerland, was an opportunity neither my family nor I simply could not turn down.”
Cerrell CEO Hal Dash recalled Klink’s key work on statewide ballot measures and other large projects in building the firm's campaigns and issues management practice, but acknowledged the PMI offer was the “opportunity of a lifetime.”
Klink is one of Cerrell’s four managing partners, along with Dash, president Lisa Gritzer and CFO Steve Bullock.
Switzerland is a key base for PMI, which employs about 3,000 people there and where the company produces cigarettes for much of Europe. The Luasanne operation is its worldwide operations center with about 1,500 staffers. It handles business for 180 countries.
Cerrell posted 2010 revenue of $4.8M.
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