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Brashear Joins Hill and Knowlton As Senior Counselor in Worldwide Corporate Practice
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Brashear Joins Hill and Knowlton As Senior Counselor in Worldwide Corporate Practice
NEW YORK, NEW YORK, USA
September 3, 2002
Hill and Knowlton today announced that Albert R. "Rusty" Brashear, retired chief communications officer of global telecommunications giant Motorola Inc., is joining Hill and Knowlton as a senior counselor in the firm's worldwide corporate practice.
"Rusty Brashear is one of the most accomplished corporate communications professionals to be found anywhere, and has been a longtime friend and client.
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Teller said that Brashear will work with the firm's corporate clients on media relations strategy, crisis communications and a variety of corporate issues, including corporate governance, environment, CEO positioning and value sustainability.
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Brashear will coordinate his activities on behalf of the firm with Teller, and will become a member of the corporate practice's global leadership team.
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Brashear, 59, retired from Motorola in April after a 15-year tenure at the company, following a distinguished career in public service, including a stint as White House deputy press secretary during the Reagan Administration and head of communications for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).Prior to his Washington years, Brashear was a journalist and television news director in his native Tennessee.Brashear is credited with building Motorola's first-ever global corporate communications function, and at retirement, oversaw a worldwide staff that reached more than 300 professionals.
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Teller added that Brashear also will work with him on client service issues, in the former's capacity as the firm's global chief client officer.