AP appointing executive VP and chief operating officer
Daisy Veerasingham has been appointed AP executive vice president and chief operating officer.
Veerasingham will have responsibility for all AP departments. This includes the company’s news, business and technology operations, all of which will report jointly to her and President and CEO Gary Pruitt.
Veerasingham, who has been chief revenue officer since 2019, will continue to lead the company’s revenue division and serve on the AP Management Committee. She will continue to report to Pruitt.
Veerasingham joined AP in 2004 as sales director for AP Television News in London and was promoted to senior vice president for international revenue in 2010. In that role, she led all international content licensing, AP Global Media Services and AP’s video business, including the news agency’s multichannel live video service.
Prior to joining AP, she was group sales and marketing director at LexisNexis and also held sales and marketing roles at the Financial Times.
Based in London, Veerasingham will relocate to AP’s headquarters in New York.
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