Polly Pearson Email & Phone Number

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Sharon Merrill is a leading, national stakeholder relations consulting firm. We are senior-led and boutique-sized with a powerhouse team that cares for the success of our clients and one another. • Conduct effective executive counsel, capital market strategies, development of company story, purpose, mission, and vision, and C-suite coaching.• Ensure companies are strategically well-positioned with stakeholder audiences inclusive of investors, employees, analysts, customers, partners, and communities.• Lead the development of compelling message-based content for material events such as earnings announcements; mergers and acquisitions; succession planning; crisis management; environmental, social, and governance (ESG).• Client companies include SaaS, Quantum Computing, Consumer, and Communications firms.

Boston, Ma, Us

• Advisor to the Founder/Executive Chairman and to the CEO; led investor relations strategy and execution.• Partnered with Founder to raise B, C, and D funding rounds.• Served on the board from pre-product stage through the completion of the B round.

• Built referral-based, successful consulting practice as advisor to Founders and CEOs on investor relations, capital market strategies, leadership, and branding.• Readied CEOs for successful engagement with the capital markets and strong relationships with investors.

Hopkinton, Ma, Us

● Led cultural transformation in a global workforce of greater than forty-thousand knowledge workers across eighty-five countries● Modernized engagement with external and internal talent via blogging, video communications, and a social-based global innovation. ● Established employee satisfaction improvement from sixty-six percent to a record high of ninety-five percent. Revenue growth and customer satisfaction re-ignited. ● Recognized thought leader and public speaker on “employment branding” ("Polly Pearson" reached #1 in Google search for "employment branding" at the time) and cultural transformation via socially networked, collaborative organization.● Inspired the creation of an award-winning DE&I book authored by employees titled, “Working Mothers Experience.”

Hopkinton, Ma, Us

● Led a marketing staff of greater than three hundred people across eighty-five countries in the creation of engaging and message-rich branding, events, field marketing, and advertising backed by a world-class custom research operation.● Established a master brand strategy to energize the culture, foster revenue growth, and lower cost. ● Created brand architecture to integrate greater than fifty acquired companies and their product lines.● Successfully launched new market categories, and dozens of new software and hardware products leading to market share and mind share leadership with the target audiences.● Constructed and launched EMC World, the foremost customer and partner event that led its industry.● Engaging public speaker at forums such as Simmons Women’s Leadership Conference, The Conference Board, FORTUNE Brand Summit.● Forged a Total Customer Experience program to understand and effectively turn around customer satisfaction ratings for a ten-billion-dollar (revenue) company deploying six sigma methodologies.

Hopkinton, Ma, Us

● Achieved “Stock of the Decade;" highest decade performance in the two hundred and seventeen-year history of the NYSE; shares increased in value by eighty-nine thousand percent.● Built demand for shares and engagement with investment professionals via presentations at more than forty investment conferences and events per year and establishment of international and retail IR programs.● Led analyst days, annual shareholder meetings, earnings, product launches, crisis management, messaging.● Recognized for leading IR Program from Bloomberg, Financial Times, NYSE, EMC Presidents Award.● Promoted to be the first female VP at the company.

Bs, Liberal Arts And Sciences/Liberal Studies

Marketing

Communications