Bill Pendergast, a FleishmanHillard veteran since 1999, has joined Brunswick Group as partner in Dallas.
He served as chief of FH's Washington office, where he bolstered the Omnicom unit's corporate practice in the nation's capital.
Pendergast moved to FH from former Bell system operating company Ameritech in metro Chicago, prior to its acquisition by AT&T. Earlier, he did stints at Ketchum, Cohn & Wolfe and AXA Equitable insurance.
Steve Lipin, U.S. senior partner at Brunswick, praised Pendergast as "one of the leading communications advisers in the field today."
At Brunswick, Pendergast will work in the corporate reputation, crisis and telecom sectors.
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