Michael Robinson, who has more than 30 years of corporate, PA and crisis experience has joined financial specialist ICR as managing director in Washington.
He did a nearly 10-year stint at Levick rising to the executive VP post and counseling clients such as AIG, Dubai's stock exchange and World Bank.
Robinson became a partner at Omnicom's Chlopak Leonard Schechter & Assoc. in Sept. 2013 and helped it rebrand to CLS Strategies. He recently left the DC firm.
Earlier, Robinson was chief spokesman for then Securities and Exchange Commission chief Harvey Pitt, handling issues connected to Sarbanes-Oxley and Enron/WorldCom collapses; director of communications at Freddie Mac; VP-corporate communications at investment banker Friedman Billings Ramsey; senior media advisor for global PA at Mobil and spokesperson at the Justice Dept.
ICR also added financial journalist (CNBC, Wall Street Journal) John Jannarone to its New York office.
He reported for CNBC and contributed to "Fast Money," and "Closing Bell."
In an eight-year run at the WSJ, Jannarone worked from Singapore, London and New York.
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