NEW YORK, June 1, 2015 – Bruce Dunbar today joined Teneo Strategy as a Managing Director.
Bruce Dunbar has extensive experience in crisis communications, brand and reputation management, communications in support of financial transactions, investor relations, and employee communications. He also has deep expertise in the financial services industry and has worked with clients across a range of other industries.
Prior to joining Teneo, Mr. Dunbar was a Principal with Finsbury (formerly Robinson, Lerer & Montgomery) where he advised clients on IPOs, M&A, litigation and regulatory matters, investor relations, and brand and reputation building. Clients included BlackRock, Charles Schwab, Marsh & McClennan, the government of Singapore and TerraForm Power along with prominent private equity and hedge fund managers.
Mr. Dunbar held a variety of marketing and communications roles during a 16 year career with OppenheimerFunds, one of the largest asset managers in the United States. During his tenure, he advised four CEOs on communication strategy and reputation management, led a brand building effort that created one of the most well-known and respected brands in financial services and launched the Company’s political action committee and corporate foundation. He headed the Firm’s corporate communications function, leading media relations, employee communications, brand management, corporate philanthropy and government relations, and served on the Firm’s management committee through periods of unprecedented growth and significant financial system dislocation.
Mr. Dunbar began his career with Ogilvy Adams & Rinehart, a strategic communications firm, advising on financial transactions and investor relations in the insurance, energy, transportation, and banking industries.
Mr. Dunbar holds an A.B. in History from Princeton University and an MBA from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business. He was selected into the Partnership for New York City’s Rockefeller Fellows Program and serves on the National Advertising Review Board, a Better Business Bureau affiliate that arbitrates corporate disputes over advertising claims.