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| John Ambler |
John Ambler has returned to FleishmanHillard after serving as VP-chief communications and brand officer at United States Steel Corp for three years.
His initial stint at FH was from 2006 to 2008.
Prior to first joining the Omnicom unit, Ambler was an international public & government affairs leader at Texaco and a PA staffer at General Electric’s energy unit.
Ambler was VP-global communications, marketing and PA at Enron from 1998 to 2004, a span that covered its rapid expansion and historic financial meltdown.
Following Enron, he took the VP-corporate relations job at BNSF Railway and helped guide the nation’s biggest railroad through its $44B acquisition by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathway.
Ambler is based in FH’s Houston office.
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