Barry Leggetter, senior director for Countrywide Porter Novelli, is
to join Porter Novelli in New York to head the company’s major
international Gillette account.
Leggetter spent ten years with Countrywide Porter Novelli before
becoming managing director of Fleishman-Hillard’s London office. He
spent three years in this position before returning to Countrywide in
1997.
Leggetter will report to Julie Winskie, executive vice-president and
head of the consumer practice group of Porter Novelli in New York and
Helen Ostrowski, Porter Novelli New York office general manager.
He will take up the appointment in the first week of December, and will
have to work with other PR agencies in and outside the Porter Novelli
network around the world.
