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.
• 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.
• 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.

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