Richard AndersonSenior Vice President
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Richard L. Anderson has more than three decades of experience assisting a wide range of companies, from multi-nationals to emerging growth companies, in building shareholder value and generating broad recognition in the financial and business media.
Anderson recently served as senior vice president and partner in the corporate and business communications group at Fleishman-Hillard, one of the country’s largest communications consultancies. There he was co-chair of the firm’s Financial Communications Practice group and responsible for corporate communications, investor relations and financial media clients. Anderson joined Fleishman in July 2002 with an established track record for building and managing financial and investor relations consulting practices at major agencies. At Fleishman, he oversaw the national communications program on behalf of the Public Home Builders Council of America, a new coalition of the largest public homebuilders in the U.S, as well as coordinating national media campaigns for RE/MAX, Nationwide, New Century and First American Corporation. Prior to joining Fleishman, he was a senior vice president and co-founder of Thomson Financial’s Global Consulting Group, a leading investor relations firm.
Anderson has represented a broad spectrum of banking, financial services, mortgage and housing clients. Well versed in helping companies work their way through challenging shareholder and investor issues, Anderson in 2005 counseled Career Education Corporation and CryoLife in their efforts to implement corporate governance changes in response to dissident shareholder attacks. He helped Amdocs successfully resolve its stock options and independent director issues with Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and worked closely with Texas Instruments’ senior management and their proxy firm, Georgeson Shareholder, in the 2003 contested Directors’ vote with ISS. For Cendant, he helped to restore the company’s credibility with the investment community following its widely reported accounting fraud issues. Anderson provided crisis counseling to Post Properties’ senior management following major earning misses during 2000 and 2001 He also helped develop the communications strategy for CBS/Westinghouse in its successful transition from an industrial enterprise to a pure media company before it was acquired by Viacom.
Anderson has extensive experience guiding companies through the process of preparing to go public, participating in more than 35 initial public offerings and spin-offs. He has worked with companies to set-up their internal investor relations programs as well as serving as outside investor relations counsel to senior management. In 1999, Anderson assisted Agilent Technologies in their $8 billion spin and IPO from Hewlett-Packard; the following year, he helped guide Krispy Kreme through the most successful IPO in 2000; and in 2001, he worked on two of the largest IPOs that year – AFC Enterprises and Peabody Energy. More recently, he counseled on the $5 billion Freescale Semiconductor IPO/spin-off from Motorola and the 2005 IPO of WiderThan, a South Korean mobile Internet company.
In addition to being associated with TheWadeGroup, Anderson is the founder and principal of R.L. Anderson Associates, Inc. A graduate of Brown University, Anderson holds a MA in urban affairs from Boston University. He is a longtime member of the National Investor Relations Institute and served as the section chair for the PRSA’s financial communications section.