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| Jim Tsokanos |
Jim Tsokanos, former president of MSL Group, died April 17 from COVID-19. He spent a dozen years at the now Publicis Groupe unit before exiting in 2012.
Earlier, he was VP-group director at Ketchum and account supervisor at Cohn & Wolfe.
Tsokanos is remembered as a "family man, industry maverick, philanthropist, and trusted friend to all those he held close," on a gofundme page established to raise scholarship funds for the education of his children, Sophia and Jim.
Most recently, Tsokanos was running Nu Nexus consultancy.
Kassie Canter, a media and entertainment PR veteran, died October 24 in New York. She was 67.
Leo Pearlstein, the “king of culinary PR,” died on Sept. 10 in Los Angeles at the age of 104.
Tim Metz, who joined Hill & Knowlton in 1989 after a 23-year career at the Wall Street Journal died Aug. 15. He was 86.
Bill Murray, who had been with MikeWorldWide for 35 years (most recently as EVP/national director, public affairs), has passed away at 67 after a battle with cancer.
Peter Costiglio, a top corporate communications executive for more than 40 years, died March 17 after a long-battle with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy. He was 76.
