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Meredith GriffantiMeredith 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.
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