Andy Merrill

Andy Merrill brings nearly 20 years of strategic financial communications experience to Prosek, with a focus on transaction communications and issues and crisis management working with some of the world’s leading corporations. Prior to joining Prosek, Mr. Merrill was a Senior Managing Director at Teneo, a global strategic consultancy where he counseled CEO’s and boards of directors in the areas of corporate strategy, business operations, media and investor relations, corporate and executive reputation management, transaction communications and other special situations.

Prior to Teneo, Mr. Merrill was the US Chief Executive Officer of Finsbury, a financial communications firm based in London. Mr. Merrill led the successful build out of Finsbury’s US office focusing on domestic and cross-border transaction communications, financial media and investor relations, shareholder activism approach and defense, and crisis communications. Mr. Merrill led the ultimate merger of Finsbury’s US office with Robinson Lehrer Montgomery. Prior to Finsbury, Mr. Merrill led Edelman’s thirty-person global financial communications practice, which he joined from Abernathy MacGregor, a strategic financial communications consultancy where he was a partner and Managing Director. Prior to Abernathy Mr. Merrill was in finance, serving as an investment banker at UBS and as both a senior commercial banker and the head of investor relations for The Bank of New York.

Mr. Merrill is a graduate of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut and has an MBA in finance from Columbia University in New York.

He is Chairman of the Board of the Stamford Hospital Foundation in Stamford, Connecticut and a Member of the Board of Fellows of Trinity College.