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January 31, 2020, Platinum Equity completed its acquisition of Cision Ltd for $ 2.7 billion making it private again. In September 2020, Cision named Abel Clark as CEO, replacing interim chief Brandon Crawley. Prior to the appointment, Clark was CEO of TruSight.
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