Clario Group Names New President for Corporate Affairs

NEW YORK, Oct. 1, 2026 /CourierPR/ -- Clario Group, a global strategic integrated communications and advisory consultancy, has appointed Tom Smith as the new President, Corporate Affairs. Smith, who brings more than three decades of experience advising companies and executives on reputation, transformation, and growth, will lead the firm's corporate affairs offering and provide strategic counsel to senior executives. In his new role, Smith will oversee integrated client engagements focused on reputation, transformation, risk, and growth.

Most recently, Smith served as President, Corporate, North America at Allison Worldwide, where he helped build and lead the firm's corporate practice and advised organizations in the technology, professional services, financial services, industrial, and healthcare sectors. His expertise spans corporate reputation, capital markets communications, crisis and issues management, executive positioning, stakeholder engagement, social impact, and integrated communications.

Smith's appointment comes as Clario Group continues to expand its leadership, capabilities, and global network. The firm combines strategic rigor, data-driven insights, and creative problem-solving to help leaders address business-critical challenges and protect corporate reputation. Clario Group is building a senior-led, agile consultancy that brings together deep corporate affairs expertise, creative thinking, data-driven insight, and new technologies to solve consequential business challenges.

As President, Corporate Affairs, Smith will work across Clario Group's team of counselors, executive advisors, and specialist partners to bring together the expertise organizations need to address increasingly interconnected business and stakeholder challenges. He will also play a central role in expanding the firm's client portfolio, developing talent, and building new corporate affairs capabilities powered by proprietary AI-driven offerings.

Clario Group combines experienced counsel, creative problem-solving, and behavioral science with AI-enabled insights to help organizations anticipate change, navigate disruption, protect reputation, and turn complexity into opportunity. The firm is built for growth and designed for change, and it continues to expand its leadership, capabilities, and global network.

Clario Group is a senior-driven global strategic integrated communications and advisory firm helping organizations adapt, grow, and lead. The firm combines strategic rigor, data-driven insights, and creative problem-solving to help leaders address business-critical challenges and protect corporate reputation. Supported by an AI-enabled backbone and guided by behavioral science, Clario Group delivers human-centered solutions designed to achieve measurable outcomes.