Jennings Joins GCI In N.Y.

Walter Jennings, recently named evp and head of the North American corporate practice of GCI, says his life as a public relations executive has been “a little like Odysseus in Homer’s Odyssey.”

His career has taken the 42-year-old Flemington, N.J., native from New York to cities such as Sydney and Hong Kong. Now Jennings is back in New York, overseeing about 15 employees at Grey Global Group’s GCI, where his duties include business consulting, corporate-reputation management and media relations for clients such as Dell.

Jennings, who reports to CEO Bob Feldman, arrives from Ford Motor Credit Co.