Leadership Team
Bill McBride
Bill is founder and Managing Partner of Bryant Park Financial Communications. He formed the firm in 2011 with the vision of providing hands-on, senior-level expertise focused on helping clients strengthen their competitive position, drive growth and protect their reputation in the challenging digital media environment. A former editor, journalist and senior communications executive at major financial institutions, he has worked with investment banks, asset managers, hedge funds, financial technology firms, exchanges and trading platforms, and energy companies.
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.
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SELECTED CURRENT AND FORMER CLIENTS
- AXA Investment Managers
- Bank of America
- Broadcom
- CBOE
- CME
- Currenex
- ELX Futures
- Fisher Investments
- Gamesa Technology
- Hyundai Capital
- Invesco
- Liquidnet
- MarketAxess
- MF Global
- Schwab
- UBS
- Wilmington Trust
Judith Flynn
As Partner at Bryant Park Financial Communications, Judith draws on her background as an equity analyst and her extensive media relationships in counseling a broad range of companies, often at important junctures in their development. She has helped companies navigate through significant strategy shifts, mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, international expansion, management changes, regulatory actions and restructurings. She has worked with companies in private equity, banking, asset management, energy, technology, health sciences, retail and lodging.
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.
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SELECTED CURRENT AND FORMER CLIENTS
- Astra Zeneca
- CIT
- Credit Suisse
- Fisher Investments
- Gamesa Technology
- Gap Inc.
- Gilead Sciences
- GP Investimentos
- Hyundai Capital
- Human Genome Science
- InBev
- Liquidnet
- MarketAxess
- Silver Lake Capital
- Strategic Hotels & Resorts
- UBS
- Wal-Mart
Richard Mahony
Richard, Managing Director at Bryant Park Financial Communications, pioneered the concept of risk communications to help leaders and their organizations achieve ambitious goals and manage challenges. A former investment banker and past president of the Public Relations Society of New York, he works with firms of all sizes, from a financial institution in the crosshairs of a regulatory inquiry to a manufacturer in a restructuring; from a film producer looking for financing to an entrepreneur embarking on an IPO. His highly regarded Risk Matters blog provides a thoughtful, often contrarian view of media and reputation management.
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.
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SELECTED CURRENT AND FORMER CLIENTS
- Arthur D. Little
- Bank of America
- BP
- Cantor Fitzgerald
- CIT
- Credit Suisse
- Fischer, Francis, Trees & Watts
- Gazprom
- HSBC
- InBev
- Lord Abbett
- Metropolitan Real Estate
- Morgan Stanley
- National Financial Partners
- Natsource
- Oneida
- SwissRe
- Toys ‘R’ Us
- Wilmington Trust
Kelly Smith
Kelly is a Managing Director at Bryant Park Financial Communications, with more than 12 years of experience working with companies in the financial services, professional services, energy and education sectors. She joined our team from UBS, the global investment bank, where she oversaw the America’s communications strategy for the Securities division. She worked with the heads of investment banking, trading and research on a wide range of communications activities involving media relations, employee engagement and crisis management.
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.
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SELECTED CURRENT AND FORMER CLIENTS
- adidas
- Arthur D. Little
- Cantor Fitzgerald
- CBOT
- CBOE
- Droege Group
- Fisher Investments
- Metropolitan Real Estate Equity
- Samsonite
- UBS