Service Providers

The directory includes a list of companies that support the IR function in the Middle East, categorised by their main area of expertise.

All listed service providers have a proven track record in the region in the field of investor relations.

Financial PR Agencies

Advert One Communications is a division of Shawaf International Co. Ltd. Advert One offers clients top quality, innovative, integrated financial communication solutions.

We provide in-depth knowledge and support throughout the projects which include: IPOs, RIs, M&A, Sukuk and PP.

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Mustafa OthmanManaging Director
+966 50 523 4749
mustafa.othman@advert1.com
Financial PR Agencies

Argaam.com is the Kingdom's leading financial and economic news portal. It provides its audience with news coverage, various data, and financial analyses of stock markets and GCC economies around the clock. Argaam also offers services related to investor relations, offering IPO media coverage, Annual Reports, and dedicated IR webpages and apps to listed companies, empowering them to foster stronger communication with investors and stakeholders.

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Loraine MoncesIR Account & Sales Manager
+971 58 867 5175
loraine.monces@argaam.com
Financial Services Provider

Beltone is a leading financial services provider with a multi-decade track record of success in the MENA region. The Company offers a comprehensive and growing set of financial solutions such as brokerage, investment banking, asset management, equity research, in addition to end-to-end non-banking financial institutions (NBFIs) including private equity & direct investments, leasing, factoring, consumer finance, venture capital, mortgage finance and microfinance. The Company is driven by a vision to redefine the financial ecosystem in the region by capitalizing on global expertise, knowledge, and disruptive, value-accretive solutions that unlock limitless opportunities for clients, to drive market value and impactful results. The company is listed on the Egyptian Stock Exchange under the following ticker symbol: BTFH.CA Learn more about their work at: https://beltoneholding.com/

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Iman A. SadekHead of Investor Relations

isadek@beltoneholding.com
Corporate Access

BNY Mellon Depositary Receipts business is a global leader in the industry, with 763 sponsored DR programs in a total of 71 countries and custodizing $545 billion in DR assets as of June 30, 2019.  BNY Mellon is a global investments company dedicated to helping its clients manage and service their financial assets throughout the investment lifecycle. Whether providing financial services for institutions, corporations or individual investors, BNY Mellon delivers informed investment management and investment services in 35 countries. As of June 30, 2019, BNY Mellon had $35.5 trillion in assets under custody and/or administration, and $1.8 trillion in assets under management. BNY Mellon can act as a single point of contact for clients looking to create, trade, hold, manage, service, distribute or restructure investments. BNY Mellon is the corporate brand of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (NYSE: BK). Additional information is available on www.bnymellon.com. Follow us on Twitter @BNYMellon or visit our newsroom at www.bnymellon.com/newsroom for the latest company news. https://www.bnymellon.com/content/dam/bnymellon/documents/pdf/depositary-receipts-brochure.pdf    

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Mahmoud SalemManaging Director - Head of EMEA
T: +1 21 281 52248
E: mahmoud.salem@bnymellon.com
Investor Content

BRR Media helps companies to create engaging live-streamed and pre-recorded content for online audiences. By harnessing our leading production capabilities for onsite or remote production, as well as our webcasting platform, companies communicate directly with key stakeholders including analysts, institutions and retail investors rapidly and globally. We produce a broad range of digital events, including executive video interviews, results presentations or capital markets day presentations with synchronised slides, live shareholder engagement events or hybrid AGMs, self-produced videos and corporate/brand/product videos. These branded media assets can be seamlessly integrated into company websites, social media platforms and other distribution channels with post-event analytics on audience size and profile. Contact us via www.brrmedia.co.uk, sales@brrmedia.co.uk or +44 20 3435 7010 to see how we can help to broadcast your equity story and for further information.

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Julian Smith Managing Director
+44 (0) 7545 855894
jsmith@brrmedia.co.uk
Financial PR Agencies

Brunswick is an advisory firm specializing in critical issues and corporate relations: a global partnership with 24 offices in 14 countries. Founded in 1987, Brunswick has grown organically, operating as a single profit centre, allowing the Firm to respond seamlessly to clients’ needs, wherever they are in the world.

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Rupert YoungSenior Partner
T: +971 4 560 9636
E: ryoung@BrunswickGroup.com
IR Advisory

Equitory is a dedicated Investor Relations consultancy. Its team has extensive experience leading investor communication strategies, along with helping companies through the IPO process and with the establishment of IR functions.

Equitory's services cover

  • Investor Relations Advisory: Building and delivering equity and debt IR programmes on an outsourced basis or working alongside in-house IR teams
  • Investor Relations Transaction Support: Setting up IR functions for pre-IPO companies, including training of internal teams, and support for listed companies in managing investor communication during a large transaction 
  • Investor Relations Content: Drafting content for investor presentations, corporate websites, Annual Reports, Capital Markets Days, and undertaking Investor Perception Studies

Equitory hosts the leading Investor Relations podcast, Enquire, which brings together IR and capital markets professionals to share their experiences, best practices and offer listeners insights and ideas in the dynamic world of IR.

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Clara MeliaFounder
t: +44 (0) 20 3289 5520 | m: +44 (0) 77 4817 1236
clara@equitory.com
Annual Report

Emperor is a leading UK-headquartered Brand and Corporate Communications agency, with a regional office in Dubai. We’re a 21 year old market-leader in our space, with 180 employees. Our range of complementary Design services helps our clients to define who they are and what they do, communicate where they’re going and how they will get there, and engage audiences in what they care about and why. We act for nearly 300 corporate clients internationally, including c. 15% of the FTSE350, right through to small-caps and a host of unlisted organisations (including for example Sovereign Wealth Funds, private equity backed businesses and professional advisers, lawyers, accountants). We specialise in IPO communications - no other UK design agency has acted on more flotations than Emperor over the last 20 years. Many of our clients’ listings are on the London markets, but equally some are on Toronto, Abu Dhabi, Johannesburg, Dubai, Moscow, Riyadh, Mumbai, Doha or elsewhere.

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Natasha NelsonAccount Director and Partner
T: +971 (0)55 372 2580
E: mena@emperor.works
IR Apps / Terminals

Euroland IR has been assisting companies in improving their Investor Relations by providing Best Practice tools and outstanding 24/7 service for years. Rather than embracing an approach that settles for being a Jack of all trades, we believe in being the master of one.

In niching ourselves and focusing on improving the web based IR communication of our customers, we are able to provide the most technologically advanced and user-friendly solutions in the industry. Our services are second to none.

Intuitive design enables comprehensive understanding of your equity story. It is the blueprint to our tools. Making them accessible and interactive encourages users to engage further with your financial history. This is how we engage investors.

Striving always to stay ahead of the curve, we work tirelessly to reinvent and improve the way you communicate with your investors and build relationships with your stakeholders.

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Lisa MarklundCEO
T: +971 55 211 1501
E: lisa.marklund@euroland.com
IR Advisory

Fairvue Partners is a strategic management consultancy dedicated to investor relations and the capital markets. Fairvue brings deep, functional expertise to help companies integrate IR into their broader strategic planning. Its goal is to help clients optimise valuation and enhance their capital markets positioning. Fairvue has a global client base, is sector agnostic and works with equity and debt issuers of all sizes. They have one of the highest client retention rates in the industry and all engagement is Partner-led. Learn more about their work at:  https://www.fairvuepartners.com/case-studies

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Faisal KanthManaging Partner

FKanth@fairvuepartners.com
Annual Report

Fanda, spanning the Middle East and Europe, provides advanced annual and sustainability reporting, ESG consulting, and corporate communications. With headquarters in Dubai, our in-house teams of 150+ experts deliver holistic full-service support to our clients, from strategic insights to flawless execution. With 23+ years of operational expertise, we've successfully completed 3,000+ projects and won 600+ awards with our clients, both fresh IPOs or long-listed companies.

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Galina Pogorelaya Business Development Director
+ 971 50326 3240
galina.pogorelaya@fanda.company
Financial PR Agencies

Our Capital Markets Communications professionals serve as trusted advisers to board of directors and management teams at companies of all sizes and at every stage of growth. With an in-depth understanding of what the investment community wants and needs, FTI Consulting helps corporate leaders navigate through moments of transition, deliver a consistent and credible corporate narrative to the market, engage with the market and cultivate a growing shareholder base. FTI Consulting is an independent global business advisory firm dedicated to helping organisations manage change, mitigate risk and resolve disputes: financial, legal, operational, political & regulatory, reputational and transactional. FTI Consulting professionals, located in all major business centres throughout the world, work closely with clients to anticipate, illuminate and overcome complex business challenges and opportunities.

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Talal AlmoallemSenior Director, Strategic Communications Investor Relations Advisory
+971 4 437 2121 T | +971 56 106 0931
talal.almoallem@fticonsulting.com
Annual Report

Hawksbury are experts in the design of corporate, investor and sustainability communications materials. We are headquartered in Dubai. We help companies creatively articulate their investment proposition during periods of capital market activity such as IPOs, M&A, results releases and corporate reporting. The investor communications experience of our Directors is unmatched in the Middle East, with Hawksbury’s leadership team having built and led the corporate reporting market over the last decade as Managing Directors of their previous firms. We work principally across design, digital, content and video. Services include annual & ESG reports, brochures, presentations, infographics, websites, videos and animations delivered in English and Arabic. Clients are largely GCC based and from diverse sectors including real estate, entertainment, retail, travel, industrial, construction, oil & gas and financial services. Our core expertise is the design of corporate reporting materials (print and online annual & sustainability reports, results presentations and factsheets); we have consistently produced best in class collateral for many of the leading listed companies in the Middle East over the past twenty years.

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Barry DunneManaging Director
T: +971 (0)56 696 5822
barry@wearehawksbury.com
IR Advisory

Insight Ridge is an investor relations & ESG consultancy focused on the Middle East and broader Emerging Markets. Our team has decades of combined experience as award winning in-house practitioners in investor relations, corporate access, ESG integration, portfolio management, sell-side research, and management consulting. We know what it’s like to build successful IR function in Emerging Markets and how to showcase investment story to the right audience. We believe that correctly articulating company’s investment story revolves around thoroughly designed investor education tools, well-thought investor engagement process and ESG principles integration. Insight Ridge delivers tailor made services specific to EM needs, jumpstarts your IR program and provides strategic IR support. We educate, engage & embrace.

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Ekaterina (Katya) EvdokimenkovaManaging Partner
+971 55 387 1946; +7 910 438 1410
ee@insightridge.com
Annual Report

Instinctif Partners is a leading consultancy advising companies on IPOs, growth strategies and fundraising. Our team combines strategic insight and deep sector expertise with an integrated approach spanning capital markets, corporate affairs, brand building, internal engagement and public policy. We have extensive experience in advising our clients across a full spectrum of communication challenges; fromB2B and B2C brand building, social media strategy and reputation management through to financial PR and transaction support. Instinctif Partners has worked with prominent listed clients in the region against a backdrop of increasingly challenging and uncertain global and local markets.

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Samantha BartelManaging Partner
T: +971 50 656 8851
E: Samantha.bartel@instinctif.com
IR Surveys

For over 50 years, Institutional Investor has built its reputation on providing award-winning editorial for the world's most influential decision makers in global asset management and banking. This prestigious audience relies on Institutional Investor to provide in-depth coverage of the people and events impacting the world's economy and all facets of institutional asset management. Institutional Investor offers highly-respected proprietary benchmark research and rankings on buy-side and sell-side research, hedge funds, corporates, fixed income and asset management, and has a proven history of anticipating the personalities and trends most likely to influence the global financial markets. The website reaches a highly engaged global audience and has regular features that focus on: Social Currency, Corner Office, Portfolio, and Research. In March 2018, Institutional Investor acquired Extel and is integrating it into the Institutional Investor Research business.

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Amani KorayeimDirector, All-EMEA Sales and Product Development
+44 20 7779 8888
amani.korayeim@institutionalinvestor.com
IR Advisory

Iridium is the Middle East's first and leading Investor Relations consultancy. The firm was founded on the belief that first-hand capital markets and in-house senior management experience are central to the process of converting business value into shareholder returns. Iridium possesses exceptional insight through its proprietary artificial intelligence platform, track record and depth of expertise. Our results-oriented experts design, build and operate transformational investor relations programs that help organizations and leaders engage, transact and grow - whether they are healthy, challenged or distressed. For information visit www.iridiumadvisors.com.

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Oliver SchutzmannCEO
+971 52 949 7997
oschutzmann@iridium.ae
Website Development

Investis Digital (IDX), an Investcorp portfolio business, is the global market leader in digital IR solutions. Helping 3,000+ listed companies communicate and engage with institutional investor and capital market audiences online; providing website development and all associated digital solutions that listed companies require (including share price data, tools, stock exchange newsfeeds, and quarterly results webcasting). All delivered via an industry-leading, enterprise-grade cloud platform, and trusted by the world's leading organisations including Accenture, Anglo-American and HSBC. IDX provides IR teams peace of mind and 24/7/365 support, guidance and technical assistance, with a 15-minute response time SLA.

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James TaylorDirector of Business Development, EMEA
+447749485281
james.taylor@investisdigital.com
Financial PR Agencies

Kekst CNC is a global strategic communications firm with deep roots in the world’s corporate and financial centres. It is part of the Publicis Groupe, the world’s third largest communications group. Established in 2018, as a result of a merger between two of the world’s leading strategic communications firms, Kekst, founded in 1970, and CNC, founded in 2002. Kekst CNC acts as a trusted advisor on reputation management and high stakes matters, including: M&A, investor relations, IPO communications, restructurings, crisis communications, shareholder activism, governance, digital communications, employee engagement, regulatory investigations, litigation support, and political lobbying. Its team of over 300 experienced professionals advises leading corporates and organisations in navigating complex issues across 15 locations around the world. In the Middle East, the firm has offices in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Riyadh.

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Gregor RiemannConsultant
+971 58 537 9925
gregor.riemann@kekstcnc.com
Conference Call

Lumi is the dominant player globally in the facilitation of Annual General Meetings for Companies (whether listed or non-listed), Associations, Legislative Bodies, Membership Organizations and Partnerships. Based on proprietary, patented technology, Lumi provides software, hardware and services that assists registrars or event organizers to register delegates, provide live, secure polling, Q&A management services and relevant reporting – whether in a physical location, a virtual environment or a combination of the two. Lumi is headquartered in Hampshire, UK where central functions including finance, product development and marketing are based, but has offices in 11 countries across EMEA, APAC and the Americas. Highly differentiated in the majority of markets where it is active, it benefits from extremely strong, experienced and renowned MDs who head up each in-country team. Registrars play a pivotal role in facilitating the AGM process, by enabling issuers to obtain access to the Lumi platform. Lumi holds global relationships with multiple leading company registrars and has long-term licensing and service arrangements with all leading registrars across all operating territories. Following a successful MBO in 2017, backed by Vespa Capital, Lumi has continued to consolidate their market leading positions across the globe, as well as expanding both organically and through acquisition. Its mobile solution enabled Lumi to facilitate the UK’s first electronic AGM held by a listed company, Jimmy Choo, in June 2016. The onset of the COVID-19 global pandemic rapidly accelerated the adoption of the Lumi virtual meeting platform, expanding the number of countries in which Lumi operates to over 30.

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Yousef QarenManaging Director
+971 50 676 8860
yousef.qaren@lumiglobal.com
Corporate Access

Mediatree is an Investor Relations agency that specialises in delivering financial events and financial roadshows for its clients. With almost 3 decades of experience, Mediatree is the market leader when it comes to organising IPO and Non-Deal roadshows as well as any investor facing events (CMDs, Investor Days, Site Visits, Results Presentations, etc.) for public companies of all sizes and from all sectors.

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Anais CousseirouxSenior Account Manager
+44 (0)7471 998106
https://www.media-tree.com/
IR Advisory

Morrow Sodali provides corporate boards and executives with strategic advice and services relating to investor engagement, environmental, social, and corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions and shareholders activism, strategic communications, investor relations, and research. From headquarters in New York, London, and Sydney, with offices and partners in major capital markets, Morrow Sodali serves more than 2,000 clients in 70 countries, including many of the world’s largest multinational corporations. In addition to listed and private companies, our clients include financial institutions, mutual funds, ETFs, stock exchanges, and membership associations.

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Alison Owers MD, Head of UK Morrow Sodali
+44 (0)20 4513 6929
a.owers@morrowsodali.com
Financial PR Agencies

Notified’s solutions help investor relations professionals engage global stakeholders with multi-channel communications. Earnings calls and webcasts, investor days, IR websites, ESG communications, global press releases and more - all through a single partner with 24/7 customer support, helping you tell a compelling investment story. We work with more than 10,000+ global customers, from growing businesses and new IPOs to some of the world’s most recognizable brands. Learn more about our work at: https://www.notified.com/

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Olivier De BregeasDirector, Strategic Business Development

olivier.debregeas@notified.com
ESG and Sustainability

Olive Gaea is a leading climate tech company revolutionizing business sustainability. With our advanced AI-driven platform, ZERO, we enable companies in the Middle East and India to achieve Net Zero emissions efficiently and help report ESG KPIs in line with global frameworks such as GRI, CDP, SASB. Our Carbon Neutral API integrates seamlessly into existing systems to support e-commerce and logistics, making carbon-neutral operations achievable. Through our consultancy, we also develop nuanced strategies that resonate deeply within various industries, propelling businesses toward significant environmental milestones. Our comprehensive services extend beyond carbon management to include detailed carbon footprint assessments, strategic decarbonization roadmaps, and robust reporting aligned with global standards.

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Jessica ScopacasaCo-Founder & CMO
+971 50 3659468
Jessica.Scopacasa@olivegaea.com
Corporate Access

Orient Capital is a global leader in share ownership analysis and identification, market intelligence, investor communication and shareholder management technology. As the world’s largest analyser of equity ownership across multiple markets, we help companies identify and track their shareholders, as well as their behaviour, using either local ownership disclosure provisions or our own proprietary methodologies. miraqle is our unique web-based platform through which our products are delivered or managed, empowering companies to most efficiently manage their interaction with the capital markets and the functions that arise as a consequence of being listed. Orient Capital enables IR teams to maximise the opportunity of public ownership and to reap the benefits of good investor relations. Orient Capital is part of the Link Group of Companies.

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Gustav PegersDirector
+44 7932032064
gustav.pegers@orientcap.co.uk
IR Advisory

Pivot Advisory was founded to support businesses to understand, improve and implement best practice investor relations with the support of qualified and experienced IR professionals. We help bring out the best your business has to offer and advise on how to communicate to a wide range of stakeholders to ensure your strategy, performance, and guidance are delivered clearly and transparently. Our main job is to understand your business and help you achieve your goals by curating bespoke plans that meet your business needs at each stage of its maturity. We also offer a range of support to help you execute these plans in conjunction with experienced and trusted partners that we work with to help give you the holistic service offering you need. Pivot Advisory is your strategic partner in everything IR. So whether your business is on track to list, needs to improve its current IR program, or is restructuring, we provide a standard approach for each scenario in addition to tailored solutions for ad-hoc projects.

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Sara ShadidFounder and CEO
+971 50 500 7969
info@pivotadvisory.com
Content Development

Prose Solutions is the leading Middle East-founded knowledge and content development firm. With a network of over 150 talented and experienced comms experts, writers, editors and translators, we drive the communications and business objectives of hundreds of clients each year across IR, branding, digital, employee comms, marketing, PR, sustainability and more. In the IR space, Prose Solutions provides best practice advisory and bilingual content development solutions for over 20 Annual Reports for listed and government clients across the region each year, as well as broader investor engagement strategy and execution and a growing number of Sustainability/ESG Reports, and has helped its clients win a number of MEIRA awards over the last few years.

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David GrunfeldManaging Director
+971 4 455 8592
david@prose-solutions.com
Policy and global markets advisory firm

Signum Global Advisors is an independent advisory firm operating at the intersection of policy and global markets. Signum Global works with financial institutions and multi-national businesses to anticipate and assess policy agendas that will have a material impact upon markets, sectors, and asset classes. They provide the highest-quality predictive research, market insights and policy events.

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Frederik L. MichaelsenPartner & CEO MENA
+971 (0)52 9559 069
fred@signumglobal.com
ESG and Sustainability

Based in the UAE, Sustainable Square stands at the forefront of global advisory firms, specializing in the strategic elevation of ESG narratives. We provide a suite of services designed to augment your ESG ratings, enhancing your equity story and making it more compelling to the investor community.
Our presence spans across 15 markets and three regions, wherein we partner with a diverse range of businesses, helping them navigate the complex world of ESG performance. By placing a strong emphasis on organizational sustainability, robust ESG disclosure, climate change mitigation strategies, responsible investment, and social impact, we're committed to amplifying your business's investment appeal.
Our team streamlines the process of managing and reporting ESG performance, leveraging our expertise and technology to support businesses in becoming more transparent, responsible, and inclusive. Our proven approach and innovative solutions not only simplify complex tasks but also drive a significant enhancement in ESG ratings - a key factor for attracting and retaining conscientious investors. We have conducted over 2,000 board capacity building sessions and work with IR managers, ESG managers and the C-suite executives to craft sustainability roadmaps that help organisations thrive by creating value for investors and other stakeholders.
With a proven track record, including over 170 successful projects and a 92.3% Customer Satisfaction Score, we've worked with over 120 clients to shape their ESG narratives and improve their ESG ratings. Our work has consistently contributed to increasing investor confidence, fostering long-term investment, and bolstering our clients' reputations in the ESG space.
Reach out to us at info@sustainablesquare.com to discover how Sustainable Square can elevate your ESG ratings and strengthen your equity story. We are eager to customize our offerings to align with your unique ESG goals and to ensure that your business stands out to the investment community.

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Monaem Ben LellahomPartner - Group CEO
+971 555449920
monaem@sustainablesquare.com
Financial PR Agencies

Teneo is a global advisory firm that works exclusively with the CEOs and leaders of the world’s largest and most complex companies providing strategic counsel across their full range of key objectives and issues. Comprised of the most senior talent, we work collaboratively to solve the most complex issues. Our teams integrate the disciplines of strategic communications, investment banking, management consulting, political risk analysis, talent development, risk management, digital analytics, corporate governance, government affairs and corporate restructuring to solve for the most complex business and reputational challenges and opportunities. The Firm was founded in June 2011 by Declan Kelly, Doug Band and Paul Keary and now has more than 700 employees located in 16 offices around the world.

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Andy ParnisManaging Director

andy.parnis@teneo.com

Visible Alpha provides access to sell-side analyst models and deep consensus data to enable investor relations professionals to uncover and explore the market's view of their company, competitors, and suppliers.

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Erin GiffordDirector of Marketing
+44 20 35451032
info@visiblealpha.com