CohnReznick announced that the firm’s partners elected Frank P. Longobardi to be Chief Executive Officer. Frank will take office on October 1, 2015, when the current co-CEOs Ken Baggett and Tom Marino step down. Baggett and Marino will both remain members of CohnReznick’s Executive Board.
Currently a member of the Executive Board and Regional Managing Partner – New England, Frank and his wife will relocate to New York in the fall of 2015 where he will operate out of the Firm’s national headquarters in Manhattan. Frank previously served as a member of the Firm’s Go-to Market Committee, which oversaw the strategic planning for industry and service specialization when CohnReznick was formed in 2012 as a result of the J.H. Cohn and Reznick Group combination.
An active member of the community, Frank was a past chairman and currently serves on the Arthritis Foundation’s National Board of Directors and chairs its audit committee. He is also Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Conference for Community and Justice and a board member of the St. Francis Hospital Foundation. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Connecticut and is a board member of the UConn Foundation.
“I am deeply honored to be chosen to lead CohnReznick and look forward to working with our people to achieve new goals in serving our clients and communities, shaping discussions around the issues that impact today’s businesses, and developing the future leaders of this Firm,” Frank said.