By Kevin McCauley
Peter McKillop, who was director of global communications for Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., has joined Edelman as executive VP/financial communications.
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At KKR, McKillop handled its high-profile listing on the New York Stock Exchange, branding, corporate, transactional communications and social responsibility matters.
Earlier, he was senior VP-communications at Bank of America’s consumer and small bank operation, in charge of integrated marketing campaigns for checking, credit cards, small business lending and real estate.
McKillop served overseas in J.P. Morgan’s Asia-Pacific operation. He spearheaded marketing and communications for Japan, Singapore, China, Hong Kong and Australia.
McKillop dealt with PA, crisis and strategic marketing in Japan for Burson-Marsteller.
At Edelman, McKillop reports to Justin Blake, managing director of corporate and public affairs in the New York office.
Blake expects McKillop’s savvy will help companies that have taken a “reputational hit” in the financial category “that is among the least trusted sectors in the country.”
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