Ex-MSL President Tsokanos Dies From COVID-19

Mon., Apr. 20, 2020

By Kevin McCauley

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.

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