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PRESS RELEASE
Edelman Bolsters Corporate Communications Offering with
Appointment of Chadd McLisky as
Regional Corporate Practice Chairman, Asia Pacific
PR Veteran Returns to Edelman in Newly-Created Role to Boost
Corporate Practice in the Region
HONG KONG, November 9, 2012 Edelman has bolstered its
corporate communications offering in Asia Pacific today with
the appointment of Chadd McLisky as regional Corporate
practice chairman, Asia Pacific. McLisky rejoins Edelman
following 20 years as chairman of IndoPacific Edelman, the
leading public relations firm in Indonesia.
McLisky will be responsible for leading the firms
corporatepractice across Edelmans 11 Asia-Pacific markets.
He will report directly to David Brain, president and CEO,
Edelman Asia Pacific, and Ben Boyd, global head of Edelmans
Corporate practice. The appointment is effective
immediately.
We are delighted to welcome Chadd back to the firm, said Brain.
He is one of the regions
best known and most experienced practitioners, and he will now
be available to give great
advice to clients and colleagues beyond his Indonesia base. This
appointment follows Chadds
incredible success in building IndoPacific Edelman into a
business that is highly recognized not
only in Indonesia but the entire region. With this new remit
Chadd will further enhance our
corporate communications offering in Asia Pacific.
Boyd said, Chadd is one of the best corporate and crisis
counselors across Edelmans 66-office
global network. The incredible crisis communications work he did
in Indonesia in the wake of
the 2004 tsunami has been used as an industry-leading case study
by experts around the world.
Prior to the appointment and starting IndoPacific Edelman, Chadd
worked for nearly 10 years at
Burson-Marsteller, where he was vice president for Australia and
New Zealand. He has worked
for more than 30 years in the public relations industry and has
managed a wide variety of clients
across a broad spectrum of industries in New Zealand, the United
Kingdom, Australia, Indonesia
and across APAC. Chadd has received several awards for
excellence in public relations in
financial relations, issues management, and marketing
communications, and holds a FoodTechnology degree from Massey
University in New Zealand and a Communications, Advertising
and Marketing Diploma from the United Kingdom.
About Edelman
Edelman is the worlds largest public relations firm, with 66
offices and more than 4,500
employees worldwide, as well as affiliates in more than 30
cities. Edelman was named
Advertising Ages top-ranked PR firm of the decade in 2009 and
one of its A -List Agencies in
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both 2010 and 2011; Adweeks 2011 PR Agency of the Year; PRWeeks
2011 Large PR Agency
of the Year; and The Holmes Reports 2011 Global Agency of the
Year and its 2011 North
American Large Agency of the Year. Edelman was named one of the
Best Places to Work by
Advertising Age in 2010 and 2012 and among Glassdoors top five
2011 Best Places to Work.Edelman owns specialty firms Edelman
Berland (research), Blue (advertising), A&R Edelman
(technology), BioScience Communications (medical
communications), and agencies Edelman
Significa (Brazil), and Pegasus (China). Visit
http://www.edelman.com for more information.
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