NEW YORK: Longtime Hillary Clinton friend and advisor Lisa Caputo effectively ruled herself out of a full-time PR position with Clinton’s Senate campaign late last month by taking a job with a new Citigroup company.
NEW YORK: Longtime Hillary Clinton friend and advisor Lisa Caputo
effectively ruled herself out of a full-time PR position with Clinton’s
Senate campaign late last month by taking a job with a new Citigroup
company.
Caputo, formerly the first lady’s press secretary, was named president
of Women & Co. While details about her role remain sketchy, Caputo will
assume the post on January 3. Women & Co., which is planning to go
public next year, will market and sell financial products to affluent
women.
’I’ve been given the opportunity to manage a line of business which will
make me a better executive and manager,’ Caputo said. ’I doubt that I’ll
feel like I’m leaving the PR industry.’
Caputo will continue as VP of global communications and synergy for
Disney Publishing Worldwide until the end of the month. She has worked
there for a year and a half, overseeing the division’s first year and
developing book projects in conjunction with Disney-owned TV
stations.
Before that, Caputo served as VP of corporate communications for
CBS.
Prior to her media career, Caputo had been a deputy assistant to
President Clinton.
Caputo, however, is not abandoning Clinton’s just-confirmed Senate
campaign.
She said she would continue to advise the first lady on PR issues, but
added that she felt Clinton needed to be advised by someone with more
direct New York experience. Caputo hails from Pennsylvania.
Clinton’s PR team includes campaign spokesman Harold Wolfson and advisor
Mandy Grunwald.
