Veteran communicator Tom Reno, who held top corporate posts at Ogilvy PR (executive VP/corporate practice leader), Hill+Knowlton Strategies (GM/New York), GCI Group (president/NY) and Makovsky & Co. (managing director) is now at Cohn & Wolfeas COO.
Tom Reno
Tom Reno

He joins the WPP unit from entertainment PR firm 42West, where he served as COO and CFO for the last eight years and helped guide its $28M acquisition by Dolphin Digital Media earlier this year.

At C&W, Reno will oversee IT, HR, legal and real estate functions as well as the operations side of acquisitions, reporting to Cohn & Wolfe CEO Donna Imperato.

She hailed his “successful track record of managing and expanding agencies from an operational standpoint,” and "his experience on the client service side of the business.”