Co-Founder Tad Gage brings to clients more than 25 years of experience in investor outreach, financial and crisis communications, and management consulting, and investor relations. Before entering the investor relations field, Gage was a financial journalist and columnist for publications like The New York Times, Cashflow Magazine and Advertising Age.
Gage has managed hundreds of client relationships, serving as primary counselor and advisor, as well as the clients' link to appropriate contacts throughout the investing community, including portfolio and hedge fund managers, buy-side and sell-side analysts, venture and private equity firms, stock brokers, investment advisors and influential high net worth individuals. He has worked with many clients to help identify hidden value and communicate their most important financial value drivers, with messages tailored to specific active investor styles - value, earnings growth, dividend and reinvestment and more.
His experience including several years as manager of financial communications for Santa Fe Pacific Corporation and later Santa Fe Railway, handling shareholder relations, and business and financial media outreach. He was a senior vice president and consultant with the Financial Relations Board (at the time, the world's largest financial communications firm) and The Investor Relations Company. He served for numerous years as senior contributing editor and corporate financing columnist for Corporate Cashflow magazine, an international publication for corporate treasury managers. He received his BS and MS from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.