Brian O’Keefe, senior executive editor at Fortune magazine, is leaving to become executive editor at Esquire.
He had bee acting editor of Fortune after editor in chief Clifton Leaf left in 2021.
O’Keefe had been overseeing Fortune’s most ambitious long-form storytelling across platforms as well as the production of the print magazine.
O’Keefe returned to Fortune in 2018 as deputy editor after a stint as IBM’s editor-in-chief of its Institute for Business Value. He was previously a Fortune staffer for 18 years.
He also worked at Smart Money magazine.
O’Keefe holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Alabama and a master’s degree from New York University.
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