Christopher J. Tennyson

Companies and Corporate Leaders Respond with Words and Deeds to War in Ukraine

Global Gateway Advisors Tracking Actions and Statements by U.S. Companies and Executives as Crisis in Ukraine Unfolds

3/1/2022 – – I have the good fortune to work as senior counsel to the New York-based public relations firm Global Gateway Advisors. To provide its clients with valuable insight for their own strategic planning, GGA is tracking the actions and statements by companies and executives responding to the war in Ukraine — from Tesla’s Elon Musk activating Starlink satellite service in Ukraine to Wix.com’s CEO Avishai Abrahami reporting that Lithuanian Wix employees traveled to the Poland-Ukraine boarder to bring Ukrainian Wix team members and their families to safety.

Here’s a link to the GGA team’s March 1 “Ukraine Update”:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XtoQ8fFOlnnnK4MxVnfEFM8Y3ZpHh5yW/view?usp=sharing

Published by Christopher J. Tennyson

Christopher Tennyson brings more than 35 years of experience in major agency and corporate environments to his work as a senior communications and crisis management consultant. He has advised a broad range of high-profile companies, institutions and individuals in diverse industries, including real estate, retailing, consumer products, energy, education, art, sports and finance. Tennyson served as senior vice president and senior partner at the international public relations firm FleishmanHillard (FH), heading the New York Corporate and Public Affairs Group. His FH crisis team won the 2008 Public Relations Society of America Silver Anvil for best crisis communications program, supporting a major food product recall. Prior to joining FH, Tennyson was a principal in the Michigan-based public relations firm Seyferth, Spaulding, Tennyson, and served as senior vice president, corporate affairs, for The Taubman Company, whose interests included the international art auction house Sotheby’s (NYSE:BID), the Woodward and Lothrop and John Wanamaker department store chains, A&W Restaurants, the Michigan Panthers of the U.S. Football League and Taubman Centers, Inc. (NYSE:TCO), a leading retail real estate developer and manager. Tennyson began his communications counseling career with the international public relations firm Hill & Knowlton, advancing from copywriter to vice president and director of the agency’s Issues and Corporate Advertising Unit in the New York office. A graduate of Syracuse University, Tennyson has been a visiting lecturer on leadership and crisis communications at the Wharton School and an adjunct professor at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology. He is co-author of “Driving Crisis Communications in a 24/7 Digital World,” featured in the PR News Crisis Management Guidebook, Vol. 3. Tennyson also co-authored entrepreneur Alfred Taubman’s New York Times best-selling memoir, “Threshold Resistance – The Extraordinary Career of a Luxury Retailing Pioneer,” published in 2007 by Harper Collins.

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