Collected Strategies
Clayton Erwin is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in strategic communications and investor relations. Currently serving as Managing Director and Founding Member at Collected Strategies and as an Investor Member at Gaingels since July 2023, Clayton previously held the position of Managing Director at Joele Frank from October 2014 to July 2023, where expertise was applied in handling complex corporate situations such as mergers and acquisitions, crises, and shareholder activism. Earlier experience includes teaching English language and literature at Lycée Henri Moissan in 2012 and internships at Vanity Fair and W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Clayton holds a Master of Science in Journalism from Columbia University and a Bachelor's Degree in English from Yale University.
Collected Strategies
Collected Strategies is a communications and investor relations firm specializing in high-stakes situations, including M&A, shareholder activism, corporate reputation, litigation and bankruptcy. Our firm combines decades of experience with unique media insights and financial communications expertise to advise clients. Our founding principle is that the best advice comes from the deepest relationships. As such, our commitment to clients is to work as perpetual partners, offering senior-led counsel on the full range of corporate, operational and social issues that come with running a business. We have advised on more than $3.5 trillion worth of hostile and friendly transactions, counseled hundreds of companies through engagements with shareholder activists and bring to each assignment unique insights from having broken and covered the biggest stories in business.