Barry Holt

Corporate Communications Consultant

Barry Holt retired from Whirlpool Corporation in June, 2004 after more than 35 years in public relations and corporate communications.

He began a consulting career with a six month assignment at Wellpoint Health Systems as Senior VP of Corporate Communications during its acquisition by Anthem Health.

Barry then joined the Publicis Groupe on a part-time basis running one of their corporate communication agencies, masius. He also consults with another of its affiliated firms, MS&L.

Barry was named corporate vice president, global communications, for Whirlpool Corporation in July 2000. His assignment at Publicis ended at the end of 2005. Since then Barry has been doing some part-time communications consulting work and enjoying his retirement lifestyle at his homes in Tucson, AZ and Richmond, MA.

Holt joined Whirlpool from ACNielsen Corporation based in Stamford, Conn. At ACNielsen he served as senior vice president of global communications. Before joining ACNielsen, Holt worked for the Philip Morris Companies, Inc. in New York, as vice president, corporate communications. He also was director, public affairs for Pepsi-Cola International in Somers, NY. Earlier in his career, Holt was vice president and client services manager for Burson-Marsteller in New York.

He was twice named a “Public Relations All Star” by Inside PR magazine. He is an elected member of the Arthur Page Society, the Public Relations Seminar, the Wisemen and the Council of Corporate Communications Executives of The Conference Board.

Holt did graduate work in journalism at Michigan State University and holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.