Diane Helyne Zyats, who stepped down as VP at the Homeownership Preservation Foundation in April, has been tapped to lead media relations for the accounting industry’s D.C. trade group, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Zyats led communications and marketing for the HPF, a government and private-sector-backed non-profit that helps homeowners in financial distress stay in their homes.
Earlier, she was VP of comms. and branding for the Equipment Leasing and Finance Assn., and held PR posts at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, Freddie Mac and Newmyer/Columbus Public Affairs.
Zyats was a spokeswoman and PA manager for the Resolution Trust Corp. of the FDIC during the savings and loan crisis in the early 1990s.
She takes a director slot at AICPA.