Ed Trissel, former chief communications officer of private equity firm Warburg Pincus, has rejoined New York-based financial PR agency Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher, where he will serve as partner.

Ed TrisselTrissel joined Warburg Pincus in 2011, and led that firm’s communications team and strategy, and oversaw the firm’s service offerings to its global portfolio of companies. He was also a member of Warburg Pincus’s environmental, social and governance committee.

Prior to his time at WP, Trissel was stationed at Joele Frank, which he joined in 2007 and served that corporate communications and investor relations shop as managing director, focusing on communications for mergers and acquisitions, crisis and investor relations. Trissel was previously founder and principal at corporate and financial communications advisory Vistance Group, and also held senior roles at WPP unit Hill+Knowlton Strategies and Omnicom Group PR giant Ketchum.

Trissel will be based in Joele Frank's New York headquarters.