Ellen Barry joins FD as a Managing Director in the Special Situations Group from Brunswick Group LLC where she was a partner in their New York office. Ellen focuses on cross-border transactions, crises and ongoing corporate and financial communications. Notable assignments at Brunswick included transactions in the mining, pharmaceuticals and chemicals sectors, as well as crisis management and IPO work. Prior to joining Brunswick, Ellen was a managing director at Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher where she worked on mergers and acquisitions, proxy contests, litigation support as well as ongoing investor relations. Ellen spent a number of years working throughout Fleishman-Hillard’s global network at their offices in New York, Paris, London, Boston and Brussels where she advised Fortune 50 clients and provided strategic counsel leading multi-national teams. She started her PR career with Ogilvy/Adams& Rinehart and held in-house corporate communications positions at JP Morgan and Continental Bank. She began her career as a municipal bond analyst for Financial Guaranty Insurance Company and Harris Bank. |