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| Bill McQuillen |
BCW’s Bill McQuillen has joined Invariant to counsel clients on media strategy, PA, executive visibility and reputation matters.
As executive VP and Washington media lead for BCW, McQuillen prepped executives for interviews and helped them forge relationships with news outlets.
McQuillen rejoined the WPP unit in 2018 from American Hotels & Lodging Assn., where he was VP-communications.
Earlier, he was senior director of PA at Burson-Marsteller and VP-PA at JDA Frontline.
Prior to entering the PA arena, McQuillen worked at Bloomberg News for 15 years, serving as its senior trade and labor reporter.
Heather Podesta, founder/CEO of Invariant, said McQuillen’s “advisory instincts, relationships, team leadership and storytelling will add immediate value to our clients.”
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