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...Mr Penn, who will leave his role as chief executive of PR group Burson-Marsteller to take the job, has acted as an adviser to Microsoft since the late-1990s, after being called on for crisis management advice...
...Karen Hughes’ move to Burson-Marsteller underscores the growing influence of political consultants in the corporate communications industry....
...Burson-Marsteller [PR advisers to Microsoft] acts as its Secretariat.”...
...Burson-Marsteller was hired last year by the Colombian government to advise it on passage of the agreement in Congress....
...nomination, reiterated her opposition to the Colombia deal following the demotion on Sunday of her senior strategist Mark Penn, who last week met the Colombian ambassador in his role as chief executive of Burson...
...“First, Burson is not working for the Clinton campaign, only myself and people from Penn, Schoen and Berland,” says Mr Penn. (That company is a unit of Burson.)...
...C Murphy Mark Penn: That is really the topic of the whole book. The idea is that there are now lots of one per cent trends that are having a big influence....
...He is chief executive of Burson Marsteller, the global public relations firm, whose clients include Microsoft and Wal Mart, and is chief pollster and chief strategist to Mrs Clinton....
...Lloyd C. Blankfein, chairman and chief executive officer, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Lloyd is chairman and chief executive officer of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and a director of the firm....
...Participants included Accenture, Disney, Mastercard, Citigroup and Burson-Marsteller. Part of the object is to get many more foreigners, in particular from the Islamic world, to visit the US....
...Lloyd C. Blankfein, president and chief operating officer, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Lloyd is president and chief operating officer of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and a director of the firm....
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