RLM Finsbury, a strategic communications and advisory firm, said on Thursday that Stephen Labaton would become its United States president.
He succeeds Michael Gross, who was named chief executive of the firm earlier this month. Mr. Labaton, a former reporter at The New York Times, joined the firm as a partner in 2012.
Paul Holmes will become managing partner of RLM Finsbury’s New York office. He and Mr. Labaton will also join the firm’s global management committee.
Finsbury, a prominent financial public relations firm in London, merged with Robinson Lerer & Montgomery of the United States to form RLM Finsbury in 2011. The firm is owned by the London-based advertising and communications conglomerate WPP.
