 Tom Reno |
The well-traveled Tom Reno, most recently COO at BCW, has joined Precision Strategies, the DC shop co-founded five years ago by three top aides to President Barack Obama.
The 25-year PR veteran worked at 42West (COO/CFO), Solebury Communications (CEO), Ogilvy PR (executive VP/corporate practice leader), Hill & Knowlton (executive VP/GM-NYC), GCI Group (president/NYC) and Makovsky & Co. (managing director).
He takes on the COO title at Precision, which serves clients such as Bank of America, Pfizer, Facebook, General Electric, National Football League, ACLU, Lyft, Museum of African American History and Culture, Planned Parenthood and League of Conservation Voters.
Precision co-founders Stephanie Cutter, Jen O’Malley Dillon and Teddy Goff, helped engineer the 2008 election and 2012 re-election of Obama.
Cutter and Dillon were deputy campaign managers for Obama '12; while Goff worked as digital director for the re-election drive.
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