Bio

Mr Barnhill manages communications strategy and external affairs for Platinum Equity and its portfolio companies. His team is responsible for corporate communications initiatives at Platinum, transition communications initiatives at new Platinum acquisitions, and post-transition support for Platinum operating companies. Mr Barnhill was formerly a Senior Partner at Fleishman-Hillard Inc, where he directed the firm’s corporate practice in Los Angeles. Before that he was an executive at the Los Angeles Daily News, where he served as assistant managing editor, city editor and Washington bureau chief, and spearheaded development of the newspaper’s interactive business and first online site. Mr Barnhill is a former adjunct professor at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication, where he taught graduate and undergraduate journalism courses. Mr Barnhill studied organizational behavior at the University of San Francisco.