By Greg Hazley
Jon Diat, who led financial communications and media relations for Citigroup, has moved to AIG in a top external communications slot.
Diat, who now serves as AIG’s primary media spokesman, took on the role VP, external communications, on Oct. 29, reporting to communications chief Christina Pretto, also a Citigroup alum who joined AIG in 2009.
He is responsible for media relations, financial comms. and social media as AIG rebuilds its image four years after the financial crisis and $180B bailout. AIG’s corporate, business and regional media units all report to Diat.
Prior to seven years at Citigroup, he held senior financial and corporate communications posts at ACE Limited, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Standard & Poor’s.
AIG this year began rebuilding its brand and image as it pays back taxpayer funds and emerges from the shadow of the great recession. New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin wrote in September that the AIG bailout should be considered a success, noting the U.S. Treasury might turn a profit on the oft-criticized move. |