By Greg Hazley
Jason Schechter, chair of Burson-Marsteller’s U.S. corporate practice, has left the firm for the chief communications officer slot at Bloomberg L.P. in New York.
Schechter takes the role vacated by another Burson alum, Richard Powell Jr., who joined Bloomberg last year and left in July to serve as president of the advisory firm Teneo Strategy.
He exits B-M after five years and earlier was a senior VP at Robinson Lerer & Montgomery, the WPP unit merged with Finsbury earlier this year.
Schecter, a former assistant press secretary for the Clinton White House, leads global communications strategy for the media and information services giant, which the New York Times reports today is weighing a bid for the Financial Times.
Dan Doctoroff, the former deputy to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg who is president and CEO of Bloomberg L.P., said Schechter will help the company communicate as it broadens “the scope of our activities into new markets and new offerings.”
Kevin Sheekey, another adviser to Bloomberg as mayor, leads government relations and corporate communications, as well as the company’s government unit. |