Leads the firm&#39;s West Coast operations and works with clients across a broad range of industries to develop and implement extensive corporate and crisis communications programs.

Charlie Sipkins leads FGH’s West Coast Operations and has more than two decades of crisis, litigation support and corporate communications experience. He is a trusted advisor to CEOs, senior executives and Boards of Directors facing high-stakes, complex special situations, sensitive litigation and other strategic communications challenges. As a fierce advocate on his clients’ behalf, Charlie understands that communications can profoundly and positively impact an organization’s strategic business objectives. 
Prior to joining Finsbury, Charlie served as EVP and Chief Communications Officer of Sony Pictures Entertainment. He launched the Los Angeles office of Sard Verbinnen and has held positions at the Abernathy MacGregor Group and other communications firms. Charlie began his career as a legislative assistant for Representative Martin Olav Sabo on the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations. He grew up in Minneapolis and earned a B.A. in political science from Syracuse University. He lives with his family in Los Angeles.

Ran corporate communications at a global media company.
Partner at Sard Verbinnen.

Before the sun comes up, I can be found crisscrossing Los Angeles training for marathons. Run, coffee, Run. Fartleks, so many fartleks. Father to two energetic teenage boys, Teddy and Will, and a much calmer fiancee, Kathleen.

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