State Street appoints EMEA PR manager

Lauren WillingtonimageFinancial services group State Street has hired Citigate’s Lauren Willington as EMEA PR manager.

Willington will be part of an in-house PR team of four and report to Noreen Shah, head of corporate communications, EMEA.

She joins State Street from Citigate Dewe Rogerson, where she was an account director within its corporate practice focusing on the agency’s asset management and financial service sector clients. Willington’s clients included MetLife, NN Investment Partners and Key Retirement.

Prior to this, Willington was a journalist for Financial News and an account manager at Broadgate Mainland.

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