Dwayne Doherty

Dwayne Doherty is Vice President, Corporate Communications, for the Rockefeller Group. Mr. Doherty joined the Rockefeller Group in 2012 after more than a decade with Cushman & Wakefield, a subsidiary of the Rockefeller Group until 2007.

As head of the Rockefeller Group’s Corporate Communications department, Mr. Doherty serves as the firm’s chief communications strategist, overseeing all corporate communications activities of the firm, including public relations, media relations and marketing communications. Mr. Doherty has broad communications and marketing experience in the real estate and financial services industries. At Cushman & Wakefield from 2001 to 2012, Mr. Doherty rose in responsibility to become a senior managing director of Global Corporate Communications. In that capacity he was responsible for a wide range of communications disciplines, including media relations, internal communications, crisis communications, advertising, and financial communications.

Prior to C&W, he was the sole public relations professional for The Reserve Funds, a New York-based mutual fund company with $10 billion in assets under management at the time. At the start of his career he worked for Corbett Associates Inc., a public relations and government affairs firm in Floral Park, N.Y., and he served as a freelance reporter for two newspapers owned by Gannett.

Mr. Doherty holds a bachelor’s degree in Mass Communication and a master’s degree in Journalism from Iona College, where since 2007 he has taught public relations and communications courses in the Department of Mass Communication – one of six mass communications programs in the State of New York accredited by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (ACEJMC).