THE ABERNATHY MACGREGOR GROUP
501 Madison Avenue, 13th Floor
New York, NY 10022
212/371-5999
www.abmac.com
Our agency provides strategic, corporate and financial communications counsel to companies and boards of directors. We offer top-tier capability in corporate public relations, crisis management, initial public offerings, litigation communications, investor relations and shareholder activism, mergers and acquisitions, and restructurings and bankruptcies. We support our counsel with a wide range of planning, research and execution services.
Companies frequently seek our counsel in times of change. Their needs may vary greatly—from poor market valuation, lack of visibility in the media or product crisis to financial distress, management transition or a pending transaction—but our approach is consistent. Narrowness of focus is a defining principle of the firm. We believe in targeting small, influential audiences, and using simple messages, constant feedback and follow-up.
We bring a diversity of experience to every unique client situation. All of our professionals are accomplished practitioners of corporate communications; many have particular expertise in corporate finance, corporate management, electoral and regulatory politics, investment banking, investment management, law, strategic planning, or traditional and digital media. Our structure allows each client to have access to the full range of expertise within the firm.
The Abernathy MacGregor Group is based in New York City, with offices in Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle and a network of closely affiliated agencies in the financial centers of Europe, Asia, the Americas and the Middle East.
ALLISON + PARTNERS
505 Sansome Street, 7th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94111
www.allisonpr.com
Scott Allison, CEO
scott@allisonpr.com
415/277-4900 (San Francisco)
Jonathan Heit, President and Senior Partner
jonathan@allisonpr.com
646/428-0699 (New York)
Gus Okwu, Senior Vice President, Financial Communications/IR
gus@allisonpr.com
646/428-0638 (New York)
Allison+Partners Financial Communications/IR practice provides clients with an integrated combination of best-in-class advisory services blending research and analysis with a broader communications platform. Our deep capital markets experience enables clients to achieve a fair valuation, minimizes the volatility of their financial securities, enhances their corporate reputation and raises general awareness of their business model and strategies. We have the capability and experience to handle our client’s everyday financial communication needs, as well as advising on specific projects related to IPOs and secondary offerings, shareholder analysis, capital raises, M&A, investor and analyst outreach, board issues, restructurings, and crisis and issues management. In all of these situations we act as our client’s conduit to investors, key influencers and government and ultimately protect the corporate brand and reputation.
BLISSPR
Member of The Worldcom Public Relations Group
500 Fifth Ave.
New York, NY 10110
212/840-1661
Fax: 212/840-1663
www.blisspr.com
BlissPR (www.blissPR.com) is an award-winning business-to-business public relations, marketing and communication firm serving clients in the financial services, healthcare and professional services industries. With primary offices in New York City and Chicago, the firm represents clients across the country and internationally.
The dedicated Financial Services Practice Group offers a rare combination of experience and passion. The practice understands financial services products and how they are sold, whether through intermediaries or direct-to-customers. Equally important, the team is passionate about finance and actually understands and gets excited by issues like corporate earnings, capital markets, leveraged buyouts and regulatory requirements.
With more than 150 years of combined experience, the Financial team has diverse functional expertise - strategy, branding, PR, content development, digital media, social media, crisis communication, investor relations and analytics. Clients include some of the most respected names in banking, asset management, insurance, wealth management, investment banking, private equity and equipment finance.
DUKAS PUBLIC RELATIONS
100 W. 26th Street
New York, NY 10001
212/704-7385
richard@dukaspr.com
www.dukaspr.com
Richard Dukas, Pres. & CEO
Seth Linden, Exec. VP
Doug Hesney, VP
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DPR is an award-winning firm specializing in public relations for asset management, financial, and professional services firms.
The agency represents both well-known and emerging hedge funds, mutual funds, ETF companies, currency traders, wealth advisors and specialty finance firms. We also represent investment banks, broker/dealers, real estate firms, accounting and law firms, and a variety of service providers to the asset management industry.
DPR is highly regarded for its ability to generate consistent high-end coverage for its clients in top-tier media, including The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Barron's, Financial Times and all of the top trade media, websites and blogs. Broadcast is also one of the firm's key strengths. Over the past 24 months, DPR has averaged approximately 50 bookings per month for its clients - mainly on CNBC, Bloomberg and Fox Business.
The agency also provides in-depth media and presentation coaching, editorial services, a speaker's bureau and crisis communications support.
Clients include: BlueMountain Capital, Brown Advisory, Conifer Group, Credit Union National Association, EisnerAmper, Gamco Investors, Michael Steinhardt, Morgan Creek Capital, Muddy Waters, Old Mutual, and Raymond James.
FEINTUCH COMMUNICATIONS
245 Park Avenue, 39th Floor
New York, NY 10167
212/808-4900
henry@feintuchpr.com
www.feintuchcommunications.com
www.PRWorldAlliance.com
Henry Feintuch, President
Feintuch Communications is a strategic relations firm with decades of experience in providing integrated financial communications services both to companies seeking to go public as well as those already publicly held.
We create holistic programs that address the broad range of public company needs. Financial PR services range from strategic media relations (trade, business and financial) to special events and trade show programs. Core investor relations services, provided by best-of-breed strategic partners, include corporate positioning, institutional and sell-side targeting, IPO consulting and road shows, conference call preparation, shareholder letters, M&A advice, speaking platforms and more.
Most importantly, we offer our clients "integrated thinking" when it comes to developing and implementing street-smart campaigns. Our PR and IR teams work together to leverage corporate and communication assets.
Feintuch Communications is a founding member of PR World Alliance, an international alliance of premier independent communication consultancies which are particularly adept at coordinating financial/IR projects and programs.
FRENCH | WEST |
VAUGHAN.
112 E. Hargett Street
Raleigh, NC 27601
919/832-6300
www.fwv-us.com
Rick French, Chairman & CEO
French|West|Vaughan (FWV) is the Southeast's leading public relations, public affairs and brand communications agency, independent or otherwise. Founded in April 1997 by Agency Chairman & CEO Rick French, FWV now employs 70 public relations, advertising and digital marketing experts. Headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., FWV also has offices in New York City, Tampa, Dallas and Los Angeles.
Ranked as the #30 firm for Financial PR & Investor Relations by O'Dwyer's, FWV boasts extensive financial and investor relations marketing experience, including work done on behalf of: American Express Financial Services, Ansbacher Investment, Capital One (NYSE-COF), Central Carolina Bank, Doctor's Bank, GE Capital, National Bank of Commerce, Paragon Commercial Bank, RBC Bank, SunTrust (NYSE-STI), TrustAtlantic Financial, VantageSouth and Wal-Mart Money Centers.
In addition to its diverse range of financial PR and investor relations clients, FWV works with many of the world's leading companies and brands, including international utility provider ABB, Wrangler, SAS, Justin Boot Company, Melitta Coffee, Moe's Southwest Grill restaurants, spirits company Hood River Distillery (Pendleton Whisky, Pendleton 1910, Yazi Ginger Vodka, Broker's Gin and SinFire Cinnamon Whisky), and the U.S. Polo Association. The agency's fully integrated creative and digital team provides award-winning advertising, graphic design and digital and social media services for a wide range of clients.
GREGORY FCA
www.gregoryfca.com
www.gregoryfca.com/weekly-recap
Douglas Rose, COO
doug@gregoryfca.com
Joe Anthony, Senior VP
joea@gregoryfca.com
Gregory FCA's Financial Communications Division has a 10-year track record increasing the market presence of asset managers, wealth management firms, mutual funds, ETFs, trust companies and banks. We offer traditional media relations (in 2011, our 50+ clients made over 500 television appearances and 2,500 appearances in leading print, online and wire service outlets) in addition to integrated PR/social media campaigns. Our clients are managing from $100M to over $50B.
Our deep experience enables us to quickly ramp up new engagements and maintain a consistent flow of top tier exposure.
Media training is available on-site or in our Philadelphia studios.
ICR
761 Main Avenue
Norwalk, CT 06853
203/682-8200
Fax: 203/682-8201
tom.ryan@icrinc.com
www.icrinc.com
ICR is a privately owned strategic communications firm specializing in investor and media relations, corporate communications, crisis management and digital media. The firm services more than 350 clients across 20 focused industry groups, including consumer, healthcare, technology, energy and industrials, and employs 100 professionals at offices in Connecticut, New York, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Beijing. ICR recently witnessed another year of double digit revenue growth, as the firm continued to provide strategic investor relations services such as IPO-readiness, crisis management, and media relations to new and existing clients.
In January 2012, the ICR XChange, ICR's annual investor conference, hosted more than 150 private and public company management teams and more than 1,500 attendees at what is now one of the premier consumer investment events on Wall Street.
ICR's competitive advantage reflects the team's first-hand, senior-level capital-markets experience, focused industry groups with deep vertical knowledge, and more than a decade of communications experience.
ICR practices an integrated approach to services in which teams of former Wall Street and corporate veterans, including senior sell-side analysts, portfolio managers, and investment bankers, team with senior PR, media and corporate communications professionals to provide a unique level of advisory.
JOELE FRANK, WILKINSON BRIMMER KATCHER
622 Third Avenue, 36th Floor
New York, NY 10017
212/355-4449
Fax: 212/355-4554
www.joelefrank.com
Joele Frank, Managing Partner
Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher is widely regarded as one of the premier financial and corporate communications firms in the industry, providing strategic counsel for public and private companies in the areas of Corporate Communications, Investor Relations, Transaction Communications and Crisis Communications.
Our Investor Relations practice helps publicly-traded companies communicate clearly and effectively with professional fund and portfolio managers, securities analysts, and the individuals who buy, sell and/or recommend securities.
Our Transaction Communications practice assists companies with communications for friendly acquisitions and mergers, unsolicited acquisition proposals, tender offers and proxy contests, as well as initial public offerings (IPOs) and spin-offs.
KEKST & COMPANY
437 Madison Avenue, 19th Floor
New York, NY 10022
www.kekst.com
212/521-4800
Gershon Kekst, Founder & Executive Chairman
Lawrence Rand, President & Chief Executive Officer
James Fingeroth, Senior Vice President & Chief Operating Officer
Founded in 1970, Kekst and Company is one of the world's leading strategic communications advisors. Headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco, Kekst has approximately 70 employees.
The firm has long been the 'go to' advisor to senior managements and boards of directors of publicly-traded companies and private institutions on their most serious communications issues. This has resulted in a strategic communications consultancy whose clients benefit from the individual and cumulative experience of our professionals.
Over the years, the firm has gained experience in virtually every facet of corporate communications and investor relations. Today, Kekst is a leader in advising on: mergers & acquisitions, bankruptcies and restructurings, crisis communications, litigation support, media relations, and corporate governance, among other areas of specialty.
The firm has been awarded Strategic Agency of the Year and Financial Agency of the Year multiple times and is proud to have been named Financial Agency of the Decade. In the U.S., Kekst and Company is ranked #1 by Mergermarkets, in terms of advising on the most transactions. The firm's global client list is strictly private.
LAMBERT, EDWARDS & ASSOCIATES
47 Commerce Avenue
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
616/233-0500
rburton@lambert-edwards.com
www.lambert-edwards.com
www.facebook.com/lambertedwards
www.twitter.com/lambertedwards
Jeffrey Lambert, President and Managing Partner
Bob Burton, Managing Director, Financial Communications Practice
Jeff Tryka, CFA, Director, Financial Communications
Lambert, Edwards & Associates (www.lambert-edwards.com) is a top-20 investor relations firm nationally with clients in 20 states and five countries. LE&A has posted 12 consecutive years of growth and earned numerous national awards, including the prestigious Silver Anvil for Small-Cap IR Campaign of the Year and "Best Integration of IR and PR" from Bulldog Reporter in 2011, reflecting our strength in messaging and media that complements our core IR capabilities.
We serve clients across a variety of industries including consumer, retail, healthcare, industrial, business services, automotive and technology, and are well known among portfolio managers and analysts from small-cap to large-cap.
We provide full-service financial communications ranging from strategic investor relations counsel and shareholder issues management to outsourced IR department services and hands-on execution including press release writing, road show development, investor targeting and analysis, analyst outreach, non-deal road shows, media relations, social media integration and perception studies. We also host an annual analyst and investor conference in Chicago - the 9th Annual Lambert Edwards SMID-WEST Conference - for small-cap and mid-cap companies looking to connect with investors.
Our team is comprised of former corporate IROs, Wall Street professionals and global agency veterans who combine a Midwest work ethic with expert execution tailored to exceed the needs of each client and maximize the value of their "investment brand." Most importantly, LE&A's award-winning programs yield tangible results - clear communications, increased investor confidence, improved liquidity, and enhanced relationships - that help clients achieve their business objectives and support improved market valuation.
LIPPERT HEILSHORN & ASSOCIATES (LHA)
800 Third Avenue, 17th Floor
New York, NY 10022
Keith L. Lippert, Founding Partner
klippert@lhai.com
John W. Heilshorn, Partner
jheilshorn@lhai.com
Adam Handelsman, Managing Director/Principal, Strategic Media Relations
ahandelsman@lhai.com
Bruce Voss, Managing Director/Principal, Investor Relations
bvoss@lhai.com
310/691-7100 (Los Angeles)
Jody Burfening, Managing Director/Principal, Investor Relations
JBurfening@lhai.com
212-838-3777 (New York)
Kirsten Chapman, Managing Director/Principal, Investor Relations
KChapman@lhai.com
415-433-3777 (San Francisco)
Since its founding in 1984, LHA has provided best practices investor and strategic media relations services designed to aid emerging to Fortune 100 companies achieve their business goals and branding objectives. Over the years, the firm continuously refines service offerings to meet the challenges our clients face in a rapidly evolving business environment, all while addressing company-specific opportunities in multiple industries and sectors. Services include traditional investor relations programing, digital IR and influencer relations, along with strategic media relations geared to impacting both the mainstream media and the verticals of our clientele.
Today, we are a full-service industry leader headquartered in New York City, with offices in both Los Angeles and San Francisco. We work together in dedicated account teams, drawing on valuable collective experience to create innovative and custom tailored programs. Our veteran executives are committed to not only delivering the best in investor and strategic media relations counsel, but the tactical implementation needed to drive results that matter.
MBS VALUE PARTNERS
424 Madison Avenue, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10017
www.mbsvalue.com
212/750-5800
Lynn Morgen, Partner
Lynn.morgen@mbsvalue.com
212/223-4147
Betsy Brod, Partner
Betsy.brod@mbsvalue.com
212/661-2231
Monique Skruzny, Partner
Monique.skruzny@mbsvalue.com
212/661-2243
MBS Value Partners is a capital markets strategic advisory firm dedicated to helping clients maximize shareholder value. As the successor to one of the largest independent investor relations firms in the country, MBS combines the experience and reputation of a leading international IR firm with the partner-level attention of a boutique advisory.
Our senior level advisors draw on decades of experience in investment management, research, media relations and as operating executives to help CEOs and CFOs develop and execute customized IR strategies. We also leverage our extensive Wall Street network to introduce clients to influential buy-side, sell-side and media audiences, creating positive awareness and interest in the marketplace.
With offices in New York, San Francisco, Dallas, London and Sao Paulo, MBS works with small and mid-size public and private U.S. companies, as well as offering specialized services in bondholder, private equity and media relations. Internationally, we have extensive experience working with Latin American and European companies seeking to raise their visibility in the investment community.
MWW
One Meadowlands Plaza
East Rutherford, NJ 07073
201/507-9500
Fax: 201/507-0092
www.mww.com
Michael W. Kempner, President / CEO
MWW is one of the nation's top mid-sized public relations firms and one of the ten largest independent global agencies. We provide strategic counsel and integrated corporate and financial communications programs for both publicly traded and privately held companies across a multitude of situations and sectors. From merger communications to initial public offerings, restructurings to M&As, MWW has a proven track record implementing strategic communications campaigns that support business objectives and are responsive to the unique needs of internal and external stakeholders. Our success is predicated on the experience of senior level counselors and proprietary methodologies that leverage the nexus of financial communications and investor relations, reputation management, influencer relations and crisis and employee communications to ensure continued productivity, stock performance and customer/brand loyalty to assure that our clients Matter More through often volatile and uncertain circumstances.
NICOLAZZO & ASSOCIATES
101 Federal Street, Suite 710
Boston, MA 02110
617/951-0000
Fax: 617/439-9980
rnicolazzo@nicolazzo.com
www.nicolazzo.com
Richard E. Nicolazzo, Managing Partner
Joe M. Grillo, Partner
Richard Adler, Kathleen Buckley, Lisa-Marie Cashman, Elizabeth Hailer, Robert Hughes, Ruth Maron, Victor Emmanuel, D.A. Hayden, Craig Orsi, J. Peter Rizzo, Sr. Consultants
Nicolazzo & Associates is a nationally-known, award-winning strategic communications management firm that provides high-level professional counsel and services to a diverse, national, and international client base. A boutique organization founded more than three decades ago by Richard E. Nicolazzo, the firm practices a proprietary counseling model designed to leverage an organization's core strengths to enhance brand and enterprise value. Services include investor relations, crisis communications management, strategic planning and communications, media relations and training, management consulting, merger and acquisitions communications, corporate restructurings, issues management, litigation communications, labor/employee relations, community relations, market research, executive speechwriting, and branding.
NATIONAL INVESTOR RELATIONS INSTITUTE
225 Reinekers Lane, Ste. 560
Alexandria, VA 22314
703/562-7700
mbrusch@niri.org
www.niri.org
Matt Brusch, Vice President, Communications and Practice Information
Founded in 1969, NIRI is the professional association of corporate officers and investor relations consultants responsible for communication among corporate management, shareholders, securities analysts and other financial community constituents. The largest professional investor relations association in the world, NIRI's more than 3,500 members represent 2,000 publicly held companies and $5.4 trillion in stock market capitalization. Membership in NIRI entitles the investor relations professional to a wide range of benefits such as educational programs, publications and networking. For more information about the "graduate school" of investor relations, please contact NIRI's Communications Department at 703/562-7700, or visit www.niri.org.
PADILLA SPEER BEARDSLEY
1101 W. River Pkwy.
Minneapolis, MN 55415
612/455-1700
www.padillaspeer.com
Marian Briggs, Senior VP
Al Galgano, VP
Rated highly by our clients for strategic counsel and client satisfaction, Padilla Speer Beardsley is an integrated communications firm with deep expertise in investor relations and corporate communications. We focus in the health care, technology, financial, manufacturing and consumer industries - from start ups and small-cap Nasdaq companies, to mature, NYSE-listed firms. We provide counsel ranging from M&A support and investment community targeting to handling potentially volatile announcements, breaking news, CSR programs, perception audits and employee communications. Our New York City office in Midtown Manhattan adds an on-the-ground financial media capability.
A founding member of the Worldcom Public Relations Group, our reach and influence are worldwide.
RF | BINDER
950 Third Avenue, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10022
212/994-7501
www.rfbinder.com
Amy Binder, CEO
Robert D. Ferris, Executive Managing Director; Chair, Capital Markets Practice
RF|Binder is a full-service public relations agency based in New York with offices and bureaus in Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia and Miami. We serve clients wherever their interests and those of their customers, investors and the other constituencies intersect. These center in industries such as financial services; lifestyle and healthy living; technology; food and nutrition; education; and energy and the environment.
At RF|Binder, we help clients achieve their goals by using market research and communications best practices to build awareness, third-party support and positive word of mouth among the people most important to our clients. We understand the stakeholders - investors, consumers, customers, media, non-governmental organizations, public officials, employees and academics - and how their collective opinions and beliefs help shape a company's reputation, influence valuation and affect its business goals. RF|Binder applies this knowledge to help organizations engage the critical influencers on Wall Street, Main Street and inside the Beltway. Our flat organizational structure encourages internal collaboration and a unique approach to idea generation and problem solving, which in turn consistently produces more effective, strategically-based, creative solutions for clients.
RF|Binder's capital markets team provides counsel and services that help clients succeed in the global competition for capital. We work with public and pre-IPO companies to cultivate broadly based recognition of their performance and prospects among key market audiences, fostering full and fair valuations and, ultimately, lowering the cost of capital. We work with non-public companies and organizations whose communication challenges require an in-depth understanding of capital markets. Our capabilities include counsel on corporate and financial transactions and corporate positioning; investor targeting and outreach; corporate governance assessment and compliance; perception studies; financial media relations, and crisis and issues management.
RUDER FINN INC.
301 East 57th Street
New York, NY 10022
212/593-6400
Kathy Bloomgarden, CEO
Rachel Spielman, EVP and Global Head of Corporate Practice
Louise Harris, Chief Global Strategist
Ruder Finn designs and implements award winning financial communications programs to help organizations enhance corporate reputation, build trust and increase shareholder value.
Working with some of the world's leading global companies in healthcare, technology, energy, automotive and financial services, Ruder Finn has particular expertise in communications around corporate strategy and performance, controversial and contested bids, corporate restructuring and complex global issues. We work with companies reaching out to new stakeholders and financial markets, as well as enhancing their focus on existing ones.
We continually strive to add value to our clients' most critical business needs by bringing them strategic thinking, global connections, insights and innovative use of media.
Using proprietary research from RF Insights to shape strategy, Ruder Finn's core activities include message development, stakeholder mapping, executive positioning, global analyst and media relations, as well as creation and management of innovative online and social media tools and measurement.
SARD VERBINNEN & CO.
630 Third Avenue, 9th Floor
New York, NY 10017
212/687-8080
www.sardverb.com
George Sard, Chairman & CEO
Paul Verbinnen, President
Sard Verbinnen & Co is a leading strategic corporate and financial communications firm with offices in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
We provide communications counsel and services to clients including multinational corporations, smaller public and private companies, investment firms, financial and professional service firms, and high-profile individuals.
The firm's highly experienced senior professionals provide sound, objective advice and execution support to clients across a broad spectrum of industries. Our work encompasses corporate positioning, media relations and investor relations, transaction communications, litigation support, crisis communications, and other special situations.
Founded in 1992, our firm is recognized for delivering candid and thoughtful strategic advice, excellent written product and tactical execution, and tireless advocacy on behalf of our clients. Our senior professionals are actively engaged in both counsel and implementation. Their diverse backgrounds and expertise, unparalleled relationships and credibility with the media, and deep understanding of the investment community drive the firm's ability to help our clients manage complex situations and successfully communicate to multiple constituencies.
SCHNEIDER ASSOCIATES
2 Oliver Street, Suite 901
Boston, MA 02109
617/536-3300
www.schneiderpr.com
Joan Schneider, President and Creative Director
Phil Pennellatore, COO/Partner
Successfully communicating key messages to diverse audiences in the digital age is one of the most daunting challenges facing today's corporate leaders.
At Schneider Associates, we've created public relations, digital PR, social media and marketing communications programs for hundreds of law firms, financial services providers, commercial real estate brokers and developers, engineering and environmental firms, universities, private schools and nonprofit organizations to improve their market and brand positions. Our programs accelerate awareness and engagement, and help our clients achieve measurable growth through marketing communications strategies that generate significant national or industry news coverage, including marquis placements in publications such as The Wall Street Journal or The New York Times.
Schneider Associates is a full-service public relations firm specializing in Launch Public Relations. Clients include prominent firms such as Cassidy Turley/FHO Partners, MIT Sloan School of Management, EF Education First, Rockland Trust and Posternak Blankenstein and Lund. Learn more: www.schneiderpr.com
SLOANE & COMPANY
7 Times Square, 17th Floor
New York, NY 10036
212/486-9500
Fax: 212/486-9094
www.sloanepr.com
Elliot Sloane, CEO
John Hartz, Whit Clay, Darren Brandt and Josh Hochberg, Managing Directors
Sloane & Company is an industry-leading strategic communications firm specializing in corporate and financial public relations, investor relations, transaction support, public affairs, crisis and litigation support. Differentiating us from the crowd, the key to the firm's success is bringing a fluid and experienced capital markets orientation to all our assignments.
Over the past ten years, the firm has earned a reputation for providing strategic counsel to "C" level executives of Fortune 500 public companies, as well as large and mid-sized private businesses and associations. Our clients include leading consumer products, pharmaceutical, technology and financial companies.
Sloane & Company provides expertise to clients across a wide range of industries in crafting their communications strategies. The firm's diverse portfolio inspires our professionals to think outside of the traditional bounds to reach clients' key constituencies including customers, employees, investors, global and local opinion leaders, industry experts and political decision makers.
Our professionals understand and recognize the impact that media coverage has on a client's valuation and reputation, particularly as it relates to key issues in national, state and local governments. Sloane & Company's public relations programs are effective because they begin with a complete understanding of each client's business fundamentals and future goals. Every decision is tied to these strategic objectives, helping our clients shape their core positioning in the marketplace while aggressively and creatively pushing that positioning through global, national and regional media outlets.
SNL IR SOLUTIONS
www.snl.com/irsolutions
Mike O'Connell, Director
SNL IR Solutions builds and manages IR Web sites for companies in various industries across the market cap spectrum, from multibillion-dollar financial institutions and REITs to small community banks - and everywhere in between.
SNL builds free trial sites for new customers and redesigns existing sites free of charge for current clients. We provide a custom design that mirrors your brand image and matches your corporate site. We then integrate your IR site with our all-in-one solution with features such as an advanced IR Console for Website management, free redesigns, a mobile-friendly platform and exceptional client support.
Through industry leading partners, SNL also offers a full suite of ancillary services including Conference Calls, Webcasts, Press Release distribution and Edgar Filings.
TREVELINO / KELLER
949 W. Marietta St., Suite X-106
Atlanta, GA 30318
404/214-0722
Fax:404/214-0729
dtrevelino@trevelinokeller.com
www.trevelinokeller.com
www.wheelhousetk.com
Dean Trevelino, Genna Keller, Principals
Trevelino/Keller, one of the 30 best firms to work for in North America, delivers an integrated communications strategy of public relations, social media and marketing communications for public and private companies. Its depth within financial services includes existing and emerging segments such as traditional banks and credit unions, alternative lending, mobile applications, loyalty marketing, venture capital, private equity, biopayments, payment processors, ecommerce providers and other first movers.
Founded in 2003, the firm has worked with companies such as Capital Access Network, AdvanceMe, NewLogic, Paymetric, BioPay, Delta Community Credit Union, Vesdia and others aligned in some way with the financial services segment. More information can be found at trevelinokeller.com.
WALEK &ASSOCIATES
317 Madison Avenue, Suite 2300
New York, NY 10017
212/889-4113
Fax: 212/889-7174
www.walek.com
1260 Yellow Pine Avenue
Boulder, CO 80304
720/470-3653
31/F, Entertainment Building
30 Queen's Road
Central, Hong Kong
852/2273-5102
Fax: 852/3103-1011
Thomas Walek, President
Armel Leslie, Principal
Mary Beth Kissane, Principal
Walek & Associates is an award-winning, independent, global financial and corporate public relations firm. Founded in 1998 and with offices in New York, Boulder and Hong Kong, and partners in London, Walek specializes in public relations and investor relations in capital markets, asset management, hedge funds, real estate, private equity, professional and financial services, information and financial technology, and public companies in all sectors. From building visibility and brand to financial PR, transactions, product and service launches, and managing crises, Walek delivers results that help clients build business. Walek & Associates has received numerous awards and recognitions from organizations including O'Dwyer's, HedgeWeek, PRWeek, Hedge Fund Journal and the National Investor Relations Institute.
WEBER SHANDWICK
919 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10022
212/445-8000
Fox Court
14 Gray's Inn Road
London WC1X 8WS
United Kingdom
44-20-7067-0000
Paul Jensen, Chairman, North American Corporate Practice
Jim Donaldson, Executive Vice President, Corporate Communications EMEA
Weber Shandwick's Financial Communications practice combines the market-specific expertise, experience and strategic financial communications and investor relations skills of a specialist firm, with the resources and international reach of a full-service global agency.
As experts in communications relating to international flows of capital, from initial public offerings to mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs or demergers, bankruptcies and restructurings to quarterly earnings outreach, Weber Shandwick counsels listed and privately-held companies and organizations on a global basis, advising on some of the largest and most complex transactions in recent years.
We work closely with clients and their advisors to ensure consistent targeted outreach to key stakeholders including investors, analysts, employees, customers and journalists to support effective communication of important financial activities both locally and globally. Established relationships with key financial, business and industry media and investment community influencers and real-time local market intelligence in leading financial centers allows Weber Shandwick to identify and mobilize advocates in support of its clients' business objectives.
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BEEHIVE PR
1021 Bandana Blvd. E., #226
St. Paul, MN 55108-5112
651/789-2232
Fax: 651/789-2230
www.beehivepr.biz
Lisa Hannum, CEO
Nicki Gibbs, VP
Ayme Zemke, VP
Beehive is a strategic PR boutique located in Saint Paul, Minn. We help our clients find creative paths from where they are to where they want to be. Our inspiration comes from listening to what their key audiences need, then engaging them when and where it matters most.
Beehive has deep experience in professional services, serving clients in banking, finance, healthcare, law, commercial real estate, advertising and marketing, and professional and trade associations.
Our team of savvy strategists does our best work for clients who are ready for game-changing thinking and eye-popping results in brand positioning, corporate communication, executive thought leadership, social media strategy, media relations, employee communications and crisis management.
BLISSPR
Member of The Worldcom Public Relations Group
500 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10110
212/840-1661
Fax: 212/840-1663
http://www.blisspr.com
BlissPR is an award-winning business-to-business communication, public relations and marketing firm serving clients in financial services, healthcare and professional services.
Founded in 1975, we were one of the first firms to focus on marketing and PR for professional services companies. For nearly 40 years, we have designed and executed both traditional and digital marketing and PR programs for some of the world’s most prestigious strategy consulting, accounting, actuarial, banking, HR and law firms. At Bliss, we focus on goals, audiences, messages and results, not on stand-alone tactics. The longevity of our client relationships (many of which extend more than a decade) is a testament to the impact of our work.
Because our roots are in B2B communication, Bliss professionals know how to package hard-to-understand content and reach sophisticated audiences. We also know how to work across communication channels, disciplines, segments and geographies. We have offices in New York and Chicago, and - through our long-standing relationship with the Worldcom PR Group, the largest global network of independently-owned PR firms - we have feet-on-the-street in 91 cities and six continents. For more information, please visit our website: www.blisspr.com.
FRENCH | WEST | VAUGHAN
112 E. Hargett Street
Raleigh, NC 27601
919/832-6300
http://www.fwv-us.com
Rick French, Chairman & CEO
David Gwyn, President & Principal
Natalie Best, Executive Vice President & Principal
French|West|Vaughan (FWV) is the Southeast's leading public relations, public affairs and brand communications agency, independent or otherwise. Founded in April 1997 by Agency Chairman & CEO Rick French, FWV now employs 70 public relations, advertising and digital marketing experts. Headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., FWV also has offices in New York City, Tampa, Dallas and Los Angeles.
Ranked as the #25 firm for Professional Services PR by O'Dwyer's, FWV boasts extensive legal and professional services marketing experience, including work done on behalf of: Coats & Bennett, PLLC; Kraftworks; Legacies & Lifelines; Lisa Smithson & Company; Marshall & Taylor, P.C., Poyner Spruill LLP; Smith Moore LLP; Spore; Vickie Milazzo Legal Nursing Services; and Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice.
In addition to its diverse range of legal and professional services clients, FWV works with many of the world's leading companies and brands, including international utility provider ABB, Wrangler, SAS, RBC Bank, Justin Boot Company, Melitta Coffee, Moe's Southwest Grill restaurants, spirits company Hood River Distillery (Pendleton Whisky, Pendleton 1910, Yazi Ginger Vodka, Broker's Gin and SinFire Cinnamon Whisky), and the U.S. Polo Association. The agency's fully integrated creative and digital team provides award-winning advertising, graphic design and digital and social media services for a wide range of clients.
MARX LAYNE & CO.
31420 Northwestern Highway
Suite 100
Farmington Hills, MI 48334
248/855-6777 ext. 105
mlayne@marxlayne.com
www.marxlayne.com
Michael Layne, Managing Partner
Marx Layne & Co. has a long and successful track record of positioning professional services firms as industry leaders in their respective sectors.
For over twenty years, our experienced account executives have launched results focused communications campaigns for attorneys, accountants, financial institutions, financial planners, turnaround-managers, architects and engineers. Our proven ability to exceed client expectations has earned us a reputation as a valued partner to our clients.
With our depth of experience, we combine the most effective marketing strategies to help professional service providers build brand equity and reputation, sell services, enhance credibility, and solidify relationships with their clients, prospects, and other stakeholders.
At Marx Layne & Company, we understand the subtle nuances and legal issues when marketing professional services. We are able to take our clients' complex messages and package them in concise written formats that are compelling to print, broadcast and new media. Importantly, we have demonstrated, time after time, that successful positioning can generate new business and retain existing clients for professional service firms.
We reach our clients' targeted audiences through means beyond paid advertising. Our professional services firm clients retain us to position them as experts, to generate feature profiles in leading business media, to ghostwrite article submissions for professional trade publications, and to coordinate high-profile interviews in leading newspapers, magazines, radio, and TV news formats, locally, regionally and nationally.
From individual practitioners to large international firms, we position our clients through strategic initiatives including: local, national and international media relations campaigns; media training and messaging; article/editorial ghostwriting and submission; website writing, design and optimization; email campaigns; social media and online reputation management; planning and implementation of seminars; direct mail campaigns; design, writing and printing of brochures and newsletters.
In all we do, we continue to respect the correlation between dollars spent by our professional service firm clients and results.
QUINN & CO. PUBLIC RELATIONS
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Quinn & Co.'s Real Estate pros Tathiana Rosado, Lara Berdine and Erin Lagasse ham it up with a fellow partier at a Real Estate bash. |
520 8th Avenue, 21st floor
New York, NY 10018
212/868-1900
www.quinnandco.com
Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter: @Quinnandco
Fort Lauderdale/Miami office to open this year
Florence Quinn, President, @florenceq
John Frazier, Executive Vice President, Travel, @Giraffe1
Greg McGunagle, Senior Vice President, Real Estate, @gregmcgunagle
Lara Berdine, Senior Vice President, Real Estate, @laraberdine
Katie Coleman, Vice President, Digital Media, @Kate212
Quinn & Co. combines strong strategic thinking with our signature creative approach to develop dynamic integrated PR programs. We help clients in our core areas of Real Estate, Travel and Food, Wine + Spirits achieve goals, reach target audiences with key message points and ultimately drive business.
Quinn & Co.'s award-winning real estate division is the industry go-to. We've helped turnaround client projects, revamp reputations and expertly manage crisis communications. We conceptualize and implement dynamic, multi-platform campaigns that successfully position clients for today's evolving market. This year we are bringing groundbreaking campaigns to Florida when we open our Miami / Fort Lauderdale office.
Quinn & Co.'s results-driven approach to integrated PR has helped create and maintain momentum for our diverse roster of well-regarded residential, commercial, developer, broker, investor, legal and architecture clients worldwide. Recent campaigns include the innovative collaboration between high-end condominium The Sheffield and Saks Fifth Avenue, the first time Saks has partnered with a real estate entity. The successful relaunch of formerly stalled condominium be@schermerhorn, where ongoing promotions and reputation management helped propel the project to stand as a best-selling New York condominium; and the groundbreaking partnership between Holton Farms and the Albanese Organization, the city's first farm-to-building delivery program.
Quinn & Co. handled the media relations for the game-changing sales of trophy property 111 Eighth Avenue by Taconic Investment Partners to Google, a record-breaking commercial property sale. The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Fortune, Financial Times, the International Business Times and others covered it.
Clients of our 15-strong team, one of the largest real estate PR divisions in NYC, include Albanese Organization, Alchemy Properties, Denihan Hospitality Group, Glenwood Management, Jamestown Properties, Kaufman Organization, Manhattan House, RealDirect.com, Robert K. Futterman & Associates, Taconic Investment Partners, The Centurion, Time Equities and Trump SoHo.
RBB PUBLIC RELATIONS
355 Alhambra Circle, Suite 800
Miami, FL 33134
305/448-7450
www.rbbpr.com
Christine Barney, CEO
Lisa Ross, President
Tina Elmowitz, Executive Vice President
Three-time winner "PR Agency of the Year," rbb Public Relations is a national marketing PR firm that strategically brands professional service companies to help them break out from the competition and become recognized experts and industry leaders.
The firm's highly specialized staff understands the intricacies of working with clients in healthcare, law, banking, financial services, accounting, and logistics. With innovative and results-driven campaigns, rbb has been ranked 11th in the nation in professional services by O'Dwyer's and has earned numerous industry awards in various categories including PRSA Silver Anvils and Holmes' Gold SABREs.
rbb offers best practices in media relations, brand positioning, corporate, crisis and M&A communications, and digital/social media. Clients receive strategic counsel and results on par with the largest national firms and the individual attention only a boutique agency can provide. Find out how rbb can help your brand break out by visiting www.rbbpr.com or call 305/448-7457.
RF | BINDER
950 Third Avenue, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10022
212/994-7501
http://www.rfbinder.com
Amy Binder, CEO
As an independent, global public relations organization with seasoned practitioners who have provided strategic counsel to a wide-ranging clientele, RF|Binder is uniquely equipped to address the special communications needs of professional services entities. In particular, our firm understands and effectively deals with the interpersonal nuances, sensitivities and other special challenges associated in brand differentiation and marketing among the management and risk consulting, financial and accounting, legal and human capital sectors of professional services.
We assist our clients with developing messaging platforms; determining their most compelling cadre of expert spokespeople and counseling them in media and presentation training programs; developing compelling and time efficient thought leadership campaigns, as well as targeting proactive positioning strategies among the media and other influential channels.
Working with professional services firms often, and naturally, leads to crisis management "partnering" engagements that cross disciplinary boundaries, weaving together insights into communication, legal, financial and operating strategies, as well as geopolitical issues. Such situations require versatile, veteran perspective, and RF|Binder employs accomplished professionals with a broad range of backgrounds including public relations, capital markets, finance, journalism, law and government.
Successful, value-adding communications during periods of organizational stress require advanced planning and training for contingencies; established procedures and assigned responsibilities; and reliable mechanisms for immediate and appropriate response to media and other inquiries. In the absence of such preparedness, a level head and experience in such matters is paramount.
Greater senior leadership involvement underpins more responsive working relationships with clients at RF|Binder and enables the firm to deal effectively with the highest of sensitivities and complexities inherent in professional services PR.
RUDER FINN, INC.
301 East 57th Street
New York, NY 10022
212/593-6400
Kathy Bloomgarden, CEO
Rachel Spielman, Global Head of Corporate Communications
Ruder Finn designs and implements strategic communications programs to help professional services organizations enhance their corporate reputation and build awareness for their capabilities across industry verticals.
Working with some of the top firms in management consulting, financial advisory and law, Ruder Finn has particular expertise in positioning and content strategies, stakeholder mapping, global media relations, community management, customer relationship management, online engagement and channel management to ensure consistency across communications to current and prospective clients, employees, journalists and other key stakeholders.
SCHNEIDER ASSOCIATES
Member of the Worldcom Public Relations Group
2 Oliver Street, Ste. 901
Boston, MA 02109
617/536-3300
Fax: 617/536-3180
launch@schneiderpr.com
http://www.schneiderpr.com
Joan Schneider, President & Creative Director
Phil Pennellatore, Chief Operating Officer/Partner
Julie Hall, Executive Vice President/Partner
When leading companies, professional services organizations, and entrepreneurs seek a trusted communications partner, they turn to Schneider Associates, a full-service public relations and digital-social-mobile marketing communications firm. We specialize in Launch Public Relations — a proprietary method of launching and accelerating growth for products, services, companies, organizations and communities, or revitalizing existing ones. Schneider Associates represents a wide range of clients in consumer food, retail and home products, professional services, public affairs, education, launch consulting, and creative services. President Joan Schneider has written two books about launching new products, including 2010's The NEW Launch Plan, as well as an article for the Harvard Business Review in the April 2011 issue entitled "Why Most Product Launches Fail."
Agency services include PR and traditional, digital and social media strategy and execution, special events, crisis communications, spokesperson training, influencer outreach, brand development, launch consulting and creative services. Learn more at http://www.schneiderpr.com
Taylor & Company
1024 South Robertson Blvd.
Ste. 201
Los Angeles, CA 90035
310/247-1099
Fax: 310/247-8147
info@taylor-pr.com
http://www.taylor-pr.com
Julie D. Taylor, Hon. AIA/LA, Principal and Founder
Taylor & Company is a results-oriented public relations, marketing, and communications firm that creates and implements pro-active public relations programs for clients involved in design, architecture, building, and furnishings. Founded in 1994 by Julie D. Taylor, Hon. AIA/LA, Taylor & Company's mission is to link creative design to the public.
Among the services Taylor & Company provides are: strategic public relations, targeted media outreach, image management, marketing communications, website development and writing, social media profiles.
Taylor has been professionally involved in public relations, marketing, publishing, and design since 1982. She started as a magazine editor, gaining first-hand knowledge of editors' needs and processes, and is the author of three books on design, as well as numerous articles. Prior to founding her firm, she was the Director of Public Relations and Communications at Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles. She is supported by a staff of public relations, editorial, and communications professionals.
THE VANDIVER GROUP, INC.
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The Vandiver Group's Donna Vandiver, President & CEO (left); and Amy Crump, CFO |
510 Maryville Centre Dr., Suite 320
St. Louis, MO 63141
314/991-4641
www.vandivergroup.com
Twitter: @VandiverGroup
The Vandiver Group, Inc. (TVG) is an award-winning strategic communications firm helping clients build brands, reputations and relationships by providing strategy, branding, public relations, social media, creative, web design/content, market research, reputation/image management/crisis communications, CSR and executive/employee training. PULSE is our way of doing research. It's how we get the best results for your study, and then connect those results back to your organizational goals. PULSE uses innovative and creative thinking, coupled with a good dose of strategy. It's how we turn a research report into information you can actually use.
Founded in 1993 and based in St. Louis, TVG has satellite offices in Nashville, Kansas City and Los Angeles. Donna Vandiver is Chairman of Pinnacle Worldwide, a network of 45 premiere PR agencies around the world. TVG is a member of CPRF and a charter member of WOMMA, with individuals who belong to PRSA & IABC. Our clients are Fortune 500 and mid-sized companies in industries such as agriculture, banking, healthcare, transportation, education, government, utilities, not-for-profits and professional services.
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