Leadership Team

Bill was a Senior Partner at Gavin Anderson, a global communications consultancy, from 2006 to 2011. He joined Gavin Anderson from Edelman, where he headed the account team that won the Public Relations Society of America’s Silver Anvil Award in 2004 for investor relations counsel to a Midwest utility undergoing restructuring. He was previously Managing Director of Corporate Communications at Bankers Trust and Corporate Affairs Executive for Bank of America’s Asset Management Group, with communications responsibility for the bank’s mutual fund, private bank, brokerage and alternative investments businesses.

A graduate of the School of Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Bill worked five years in Paris as Financial Editor of the International Herald Tribune and was previously an editor on the national news desk of The Wall Street Journal in New York. He has been a contributor to The New York Times, Directors & Boards, Global Finance magazine and TABB Forum, a website on financial market structure and technology.

Prior to joining Bryant Park Financial Communications, Judith was a vice president in Edelman’s financial communications practice and a director at Gavin Anderson. , She started her career as a telecommunications analyst at UBS and Bear Stearns.

At Edelman, Judith was a senior member of the team that won the Public Relations Society of America’s Silver Anvil Award in 2004 for its investor relations counsel to a Midwest utility undergoing restructuring.

Judith graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College and holds master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia University. She serves as Treasurer for her class Alumni Executive Committee for Dartmouth College and sits on the board of the non-profit, Resilience Advocacy Project, in New York City. Judith is fluent in Spanish and proficient in Portuguese.

Richard began his career in investment banking at J.P. Morgan. He was later appointed head of the firm’s worldwide media relations group, where he led a transformation of the firm’s external communications. He held senior communications and marketing roles in New York and London, where he served on Morgan’s Operating Committee. He worked with the firm’s senior executives during the rapid growth of its asset management, derivatives and emerging markets businesses, and he led the launch of RiskMetrics and CreditMetrics, Morgan’s groundbreaking value-at-risk methodologies.

For 10 years Richard held senior positions at leading communications advisory firms Gavin Anderson & Company and Edelman. He advised CIT Group during its spin-off from Tyco International – a program that was named “Campaign of the Year” by PRWeek magazine.

Richard holds a Masters Degree from Harvard University and a B.A. from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is a member of the Turnaround Management Association and is a past president and a member of the executive committee of The Public Relations Society of New York.

Prior to joining UBS, Kelly was a communications and investor relations advisor at Gavin Anderson & Company, working with executives in the private and public sectors. She has worked on communications for IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, global media campaigns, management changes, and restructurings.

Kelly began her career as a literary agent, discovering promising new writers and brokering deals to sell new fiction and nonfiction books to publishing houses. She founded and was the editor-in-chief of The Good Apple, a magazine dedicated to the work of emerging writers, artists, fashion designers, photographers and poets in New York City.

Kelly graduated from Emory University in English and history, and she is currently writing her second book.