Christopher Wyse, senior VP of communications for PepsiCo in North America, has shifted to Kimberly-Clark, as VP of global communications.
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Wyse leads global corporate comms. for Irving, Tex.-based K-C, the major marketer of paper consumer goods like Kleenex tissues and Cottonelle toilet paper. Chief communications officer Ken Smalling left the company in June 2015 and chief marketing officer Clive Sirkin departed in December for Kellogg.
Wyse was VP of PA at Frito Lay before moving to its PepsiCo parent in 2012, first as VP of comms. for its foods operation, then in North American comms. leadership.
He started out in the agency realm with BBDO and J. Walter Thompson before moving into corporate PR with Whirlpool in the mid-1990s.
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