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Ellen T. Johnson is Senior Vice President and Treasurer of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), one of the world's leading organizations of advertising agencies and marketing services companies. She assumed this position in September 2004. In this role, Johnson is charged with managing liquidity for the company, structuring the company's credit facilities, as well as overseeing its relationships with banks and rating agencies.
Johnson joined Interpublic in 2000 as Assistant Treasurer, International, and has held a variety of senior finance positions at the corporation, primarily in the Treasury Department. In May 2004 Johnson was appointed Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of The Partnership, a division of Interpublic which includes Lowe Worldwide and Draft, where she oversaw all financial aspects of the agencies.
Prior to joining Interpublic, Johnson held various corporate finance roles at Revlon, ultimately as Assistant Treasurer, International. In that capacity, she had responsibility for all treasury functions in Europe. Johnson also played a key role in negotiating Revlon's credit facilities and in the financing and re-financing activities that helped re-capitalize the company in the late 1990's.
Preceding her work at Revlon, Johnson was a Senior Accountant at Coopers & Lybrand. She is a CPA who holds an Executive MBA in Finance from New York University 's Stern School of Business, and a Bachelor's Degree from the State University at Albany.
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