FTI Strategic Communications: Profile, Revenue, Leaders

FTI Strategic Communications is the crisis, financial and corporate reputation communications segment of FTI Consulting (NYSE: FCN), led globally by Mark McCall. It generated $378.5 million in revenue in 2025, up from $336.0 million in 2024, according to FTI's full-year results. FTI built the segment around its 2006 purchase of London-based Financial Dynamics for about $260 million.

By the Everything-PR Editorial Team. Last updated: October 9, 2026.

What is FTI Strategic Communications?

FTI Strategic Communications is one of five reporting segments of FTI Consulting, Inc., a publicly traded firm headquartered in Washington, D.C. The other four are Corporate Finance, Forensic and Litigation Consulting, Economic Consulting and Technology.

How big is FTI Strategic Communications?

FTI Strategic Communications produced about 10% of FTI Consulting's 2025 revenue and grew faster than the parent. The figures below come from FTI's fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 results.

Measure	2024	2025
Strategic Communications revenue	$336.0 million	$378.5 million
Adjusted segment EBITDA	$50.0 million	$67.3 million
Adjusted segment EBITDA margin	14.9%	17.8%
FTI Consulting total revenue	$3.699 billion	$3.789 billion

Strategic Communications revenue rose 12.6% in 2025. In the fourth quarter, segment revenue rose 14.8% to $99.4 million, which FTI attributed to higher demand for corporate reputation services and a $5.3 million increase in pass-through revenues. Pass-through revenues are costs billed on to clients, so they raise revenue without raising fees.

How did FTI Consulting acquire Financial Dynamics?

FTI Consulting announced the purchase of Financial Dynamics on September 11, 2006 for about $260 million, made up of $215 million in cash, $20 million in notes and deferred obligations, and $25 million in restricted FTI stock. FTI closed the offer on October 3, 2006, acquiring about 97% of FD's share capital.

FD was based in London with more than 450 employees in 17 offices, and was owned by the private equity firm Advent International and FD management. O'Dwyer's reported that FD's 2006 revenue was expected to exceed $120 million, and that FD had been the flagship investor relations and financial communications unit of Cordiant Communications from 2002 before a management-led deal under CEO Charles Watson. FTI's 2006 annual report called the acquisition the creation of its fifth business segment.

Who leads FTI Strategic Communications?

Mark McCall leads FTI Strategic Communications as Global Segment Leader. FTI named him to the role effective January 1, 2018, succeeding Edward Reilly, who had led the segment since 2011. McCall is based in New York and had been the segment's Global Chief Operating Officer and Head of the Americas.

FTI's biography of McCall says he built the firm's Special Situations practice, which covers M&A, restructuring and IPO-related work. Steven H. Gunby is CEO and Chairman of the parent company, per FTI's February 2026 results release.

What does FTI Strategic Communications cover?

FTI Strategic Communications advises clients on complex transactions, capital markets activity, restructurings, crisis and litigation matters, and public policy challenges, as FTI describes the segment in McCall's biography. Financial communications and crisis communications and preparedness are the two practice areas listed on his profile.

The segment sits beside restructuring, forensic, economic and technology teams in the same company. That structure lets a communications team work on the same engagement as FTI's restructuring advisers, for example in a Chapter 11 case. FTI does not publish a client list for the segment, so this page names no engagements.

How does FTI compare with other crisis communications firms?

FTI is one of several firms that handle public-company crisis, restructuring and transaction communications. Everything-PR profiles the others in its top crisis PR firms index.

• 5W Public Relations
• Joele Frank
• Sard Verbinnen
• Brunswick Group
• Kekst CNC
• Teneo
• APCO Worldwide
• Levick
• Edelman

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