|
|
Meredith Griffanti, who was strategy & communications leader for the office of transformation at Equifax, has joined FTI Consulting in Washington as managing director in its crisis & issues management practice.
At Equifax, Griffanti worked enterprise messaging during the 2017 data breach that compromised the personal information of nearly 150M consumers. FTI has advised Equifax.
Earlier, she was international PA leader in charge of engagement across 10 Latin American countries, where she handled various crises and cyber-threats across the region.
FTI also added Capitol Hill veteran Cory Fritz to its public affairs group in DC office. He worked with former Speaker John Boehner for six years and most recently was on the staff of Congressman Ed Royce when he chaired the foreign relations committee.

Meredith Griffanti
It's not just the tech sector—when companies in any sector grow rapidly, what happens to their ability to manage, learn from and prevent critical issues from evolving into full-blown crises?
FGS Global’s Paul Holmes, Molly Levinson of TLG Communications. Trident GMG’s Joshua Galper and Brunswick Group’s Ellen Moskowitz all placed in the top level (Tier 1) of individual practitioners in the recently released Chambers rankings for both crisis & PR communications pros and those working in litigation PR & communications.
Gregg Feistman, M.A., Professor of Practice in Public Relations at Temple University and former corporate communications executive, joins Taking the Lead to discuss the frameworks leaders can use to determine when to speak up or stay silent.
Sam Singer, the Bay Area’s go-to crisis PR guy, today celebrated his client OpenAI’s “tremendous victory” over Elon Musk.
Deepfakes have crossed a critical threshold from an emerging concern to an effective tool, where any public figure is now a target for AI-enabled reputational manipulation. Here’s what PR pros need to know.



