Kirsten Plonner Returns to FleishmanHillard as Global Managing Director

FleishmanHillard has appointed Kirsten Plonner to lead the agency’s financial and professional services practice as global managing director.

Plonner will work closely with regional executives throughout the Americas, EMEA, and Asia Pacific in the newly created post to promote the practice's growth. According to the agency, the practice has more than 500 financial and professional services clients.

She is a former vice president of FleishmanHillard and the head of FiComm Partners, a financial services communications agency. She formerly worked for Fidelity Investments as the director of strategic media and communications. From 2006 to 2009, Plonner worked at FleishmanHillard.

“Kirsten’s extensive experience in multiple segments of the financial services industry, combined with her work with media and as a strategist have equipped her with the skills needed to help our financial and professional services clients navigate the complexities of this moment,” said global COO and Americas president J.J. Carter.

“We expect that leaders in every industry will continue to face new risks, volatile market conditions and changing business requirements inside and outside of their organizations. Certainly, these conditions will characterize the environment for the global financial services and professional services industries. Kirsten and our client leaders are poised to help clients communicate authentically and effectively, when they need to move quickly with confidence to respond to threats and capture opportunities,” he said.