Andrew Conn
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Head of CEO Communications
New York, United States
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Head of CEO CommunicationsSolventumJun 2026 - Current (5 months)- Head of CEO Executive CommunicationsThe Cigna GroupJul 2024 - Dec 2025 (1 year 6 months)
- Head of Executive CommunicationsState StreetSep 2021 - Jul 2024 (2 years 11 months)Executive Communications lead for one of the world’s largest financial services and bank holding companies ($43.9 trillion in AUC/A and $4.3 trillion in AUM as of 3-31-2024).
☐ Chief writer and strategic advisor to the CEO and full C-suite of executive leaders, galvanizing and elevating content across a multi-faceted global organization to articulate corporate values and business strategy, including Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion and sustainability positions.
☐ Galvanize all communications, messaging, and speechwriting around C-suite appearances at leading global industry, influencer, and public policy events, including: COP, World Economic Forum, Milken Conference, Asian Financial Forum, Abu Dhabi Finance Week, Digital Assets - BCommunications Director, North AmericaBNY Mellon Investment ManagementSep 2017 - Sep 2021 (4 years 1 month)North America communications lead for one of the world's largest asset managers.
☐ Led, managed, and mentored U.S. communications team across full range of internal/external programs.
☐ Built multi-media internal comms program around new CEO appointment and work-from-home environment.
☐ Drove efforts related to merger of firm’s three largest U.S. investment boutiques and new brand launch, and the crafting and execution of media campaigns across BNYIM corporate and its eight specialty investment firms.
☐ Orchestrated firm-wide flow of critical client-related and industry news, ranging from business and production launches to portfolio manager arrivals/departures to macro-economic commentary.
☐ Regularly secured pla - Executive Vice President, Senior ConsultantSweeneyVestyNov 2014 - Sep 2017 (2 years 11 months)
- Senior Vice PresidentFinsburyOct 2009 - Oct 2014 (5 years 1 month)• Serve as client lead and team manager on a number of prominent health care, financial services, tech, and non-profit accounts, crafting and executing strategic communications programs.
• Draft high-profile internal and external communications pieces including: op-eds and byline articles, executive speeches, thought leadership blogs, news analyses, press releases, targeted media pitch letters, website copy, video scripts, annual and CSR reports, and comprehensive message platforms.
• Drive proactive and opportunistic media outreach efforts on behalf of clients, regularly securing top-tier placements in local, regional, and national print, broadcast, radio, and online media outlets.
• Conduct media and presentation training s - Editor/Director of Corporate CommunicationsThe Investor Relations Group IRGSep 2007 - Oct 2009 (2 years 2 months)• Managed staff of twelve account executives leading all editorial aspects of the agency, developing story angles and writing pitch letters, syndicated feature stories, and byline articles two dozen company clients.
• Served as client liaison reporting daily to client CEOs.
• Created and wrote weekly IRG e-newsletter, distributed to over 130,000 investment professionals.
• Managed editorial content of corporate website, www.irgnews.com, launched in March 2009. - PVice PresidentPF CommunicationsJan 1996 - Sep 2007 (11 years 9 months)• Created, managed, and executed New York City promotional and publicity programs for over 100 theatrical motion pictures and DVD releases including: Being John Malkovich, the Big Lebowski, Dead Man Walking, Elizabeth, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Far From Heaven, Fargo, Gosford Park, Memento, The Motorcycle Diaries, Shaun of the Dead, Topsy-Turvy, Traffic, The Virgin Suicides, and When We Were Kings.
• Wrote national media press kits for Newmarket Films and Picturehouse Films theatrical and DVD releases including: Donnie Darko, La Vie En Rose, Monster and the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
• Managed promotional events, including film premieres, press junkets, and critics screenings.
• Wrote press releases, program note
Education
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- Bachelor of Arts (BA, English literatureCornell UniversityJan 1991 - Jan 1995 (4 years 1 month)
- Stuyvesant High SchoolStuyvesant High SchoolJan 1988 - Jan 1991 (3 years 1 month)
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Awards
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- mCornell Universitymagna cum laude Phi Beta Kappa Deans List
- MYaddoMayAttended writers’ residencies at Yaddo and Ledig International Writers House
Publications
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- SThe FlashSocial Disease UK AprShort story titled, “The Man With The Cigar,” appeared in this fiction anthology, with all proceeds contributed to Amnest International. Other contributing authors include: Jonathan Lethem, Rick Moody, Sam Lipsyte, and Aimee Bender.
- HO, Africa!HogarthRandom House JunO, AFRICA! has been heralded as "a masterpiece" and "a thing of wonder" by bestselling author Gary Shteyngart, earned a starred review in KIRKUS, and had the good fortune of appearing on best summer reads lists in the LOS ANGELES TIMES, NEW YORK FAMILY, DETROIT JEWISH NEWS, THE ORLANDO SENTINEL, THE SEATTLE-POST INTELLIGENCER, THE ST. LOUIS DISPATCH, and SAN DIEGO MAGAZINE, among others. In the pages of THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, critic Lloyd Sachs wrote: "Conn. . . takes his place here as one of contemporary fiction's great word-wranglers, a novelist whose love of language in all its rolling and tumbling excess captures the bounding excess of life itself."
- SPSoft Skull Press JunDebut novel, P, published in June 2003, named one of the best books of the year by the Austin Chronicle and the Village Voice and one of the “best books of the millennium” by the Millions; translated and published in Greece and Brazil.
- SI Swore I'd Burn This BookSimon SixSimon SchusterA Nabokovian mystery about the ultimate literary scandal, in which the son of a world-famous author is faced with the Hamlet-like dilemma of whether or not to publish his father's final, unfinished work, which he had promised to destroy upon the author's death, evocative of the Nabokov of LOLITA and PALE FIRE and the Philip Roth of the Zuckerman novels.
- OEssays, reviews, and short storiesOCTEssays, reviews, and short fiction have appeared in publications including: the Believer, Elle, Film Comment, the Indiana Review, the Journal News, Time Out New York, and the Village Voice. Long-form essay in Film Comment on Todd Solondz’s film, HAPPINESS, signaled out by critic Charles Taylor in “Salon Salutes,” and the entertainment website DEJA.Com, which called the essay, “the best piece of film writing of the year.”