Anntal Silver

Anntal advises publicly traded and privately held companies on complex and high-profile corporate and financial public relations matters, helping them to capitalize on strategic positioning opportunities and to address communications challenges. As part of this work, she supports the development and implementation of tailored communications strategies to effectively reach key audiences, including the investment community, employees, and customers, among others.

Over more than a decade at Kekst CNC, she has provided strategic communications counsel to a range of publicly traded companies across sectors, as well as leading private investment firms. During this time, she has developed significant experience in the areas of M&A, change management, and crisis communications. Many of her client relationships span multiple years and phases of the organization’s evolution and growth.

Prior to joining Kekst CNC, Anntal was a member of the Alternative Capital Markets team within Goldman Sachs’ Investment Management Division, where she was responsible for marketing the firm’s alternative investments to institutions and high net worth individuals.

She was named one of the top 10 “PR Rising Stars, and All Stars” by the New York Observer in 2015.

Anntal holds a B.S.F.S. in International Politics from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. She is fluent in French.

Experience

Strategic Positioning & Financial Communications​

• Counsels leading companies and brands on leveraging corporate communications across audiences, as well as media relations, to strategically elevate their profiles and enhance and protect their reputations in support of their business objectives.
• Advises clients on all aspects of investor relations, including quarterly financial results, annual reporting, investor days and other interactions with the investment community.
• Conducts tailored trainings for C-level executives and business/functional leaders with respect to investor and media engagement, as well as execute presence.

Transactions & Change Management

• Represented companies in transactions spanning mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and spin-offs; and has worked on deals across a range of sectors, including retail, technology, healthcare, industrials, media, airlines, energy, and agriculture.
• Supported communications activities at all stages of the deal process: from announcement, to regulatory approvals and other pre-close milestones, through to transaction closing and subsequent integration work.
• Guided clients navigating periods of change and transition that created uncertainty for stakeholders, requiring clear and nuanced communication – including transformational transactions or portfolio changes, leadership successions, internal reorganizations and workforce reductions, and operational wind-downs.

 Crisis & Issues Management

• Actively engages with clients to identify, monitor and prepare for shifting social, policy, and industry dynamics.
• Assists companies in establishing customized crisis communications plans and processes within their organizations – including outlining detailed crisis communications protocols, developing materials for specific scenarios tailored to each company’s industry and vulnerabilities, and facilitating bespoke simulations.
• Advised clients on a range of special situations spanning reputational crises, litigation, regulatory inquiries, cybersecurity and data breaches, targeted NGO campaigns, and consumer-related social media matters, among other issues.
• Worked with companies across industries on activism preparedness, and represented companies privately engaging with and/or publicly targeted by high profile activist shareholders.