Mark Thorne Joins BCW as Global Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer
March 21 2019 - 9:17AM
Business Wire
BCW (Burson Cohn & Wolfe), a leading global communications
agency, announced today that Mark Thorne has been appointed Global
Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer, effective
immediately. Thorne will be a strategic partner to BCW Global
CEO Donna Imperato in transforming the agency’s financial model to
better reflect its wide range of services and offerings. He is
based in New York and replaces Pat Przybyski, formerly Global Chief
Financial Officer.
“Mark is well known for his strong business acumen, deep
operational experience and high-level strategic thinking,” said
Imperato. “I have known Mark for many years and am thrilled to now
call him my partner. He is the right leader to help BCW execute our
strategies and grow exponentially.”
Thorne spent the past 20 plus years with Hill+Knowlton
Strategies in a range of leadership roles, most recently serving as
Global Chief Financial Officer and Global Chief Operating Officer.
Prior to that, Thorne was Executive Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer, North America, for WPP, and before that he was
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Beatrice
International Food Company. He began his career at Deloitte &
Touche (now Deloitte).
“Donna has led one of the most profound transformations in the
communications industry to date and delivered an exceptional first
year,” said Thorne. “I am excited to partner with her and the
leadership team to continue building a great and thriving
company.”
About BCW
BCW is one of the world’s largest full-service global
communications agencies. Founded by the merger of Burson-Marsteller
and Cohn & Wolfe, BCW delivers digitally and data-driven
creative content and integrated communications programs grounded in
earned media and scaled across all channels for clients in the B2B,
consumer, corporate, crisis management, CSR, healthcare, public
affairs and technology sectors. BCW is a part of WPP (NYSE: WPP), a
creative transformation company. For more information, visit
www.bcw-global.com.
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