Corporate Development – Alliance Advisors https://allianceadvisors.com A full service proxy solicitation and corporate advisory firm Thu, 16 Oct 2025 09:55:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://allianceadvisors.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/cropped-favicon-32x32.png Corporate Development – Alliance Advisors https://allianceadvisors.com 32 32 Robert S. Brennan https://allianceadvisors.com/staff-member/robert-s-brennan/ Sat, 15 Jul 2023 07:25:53 +0000 https://allianceadvisors.com/?post_type=staff&p=36530

As Chief Operating Officer at Alliance, Rob oversees the Investor Relations and Investor Intelligence business units, along with Technology, Retail, and Offshore Operations.  In addition, he heads up corporate development efforts by identifying, executing and integrating new acquisition opportunities for Alliance.  He has over 25 years of B2B financial services expertise in driving business expansion and revenue growth.

Prior to joining Alliance, Mr. Brennan served as Chief Revenue Officer for an insurtech startup where he developed the go-to-market strategy, built the sales infrastructure, and signed over 20 partnerships with a range of mortgage and fintech companies, enabling their customers to purchase digital insurance products.

Rob also served in multiple roles over 20+ years with Computershare US and Georgeson.  He led sales and marketing efforts at Computershare Loan Services and was the EVP, Corporate Strategy, completing 4 acquisitions for Computershare.  As a member of the Computershare Fund Services executive team, he provided strategic guidance on proxy solicitation campaigns to investment management companies, their managers, and boards on major M&A, change-of-control, and fund-restructuring transactions.  At Georgeson, he held P&L responsibilities over the mutual funds business line that provided proxy solicitation services to open-end funds, closed-end funds, and ETFs and was a member of the Board of Directors.

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]]> Thomas G. Kies https://allianceadvisors.com/staff-member/thomas-kies/ Mon, 25 Jul 2022 09:13:57 +0000 https://aadvisors.vog.in.rs/?page_id=26459

Thomas Kies is Executive Vice President – International, Global Partnerships at Alliance Advisors. Tom joins Alliance with over 30 years’ experience in the ShareholderServices/Proxy Governance space. Tom has held executive positions at Computershare/Georgeson, AST/DF King and most recently started up aGovernance/Proxy business at EQ who recently merged with AST. Tom has done extensive work assisting clients with reducing shareholder servicing costs.

Tom has extensive global markets experience, having lived in London, and successfully managed global proxy at EQ and Georgeson. Tom is also well known in the banking and utility space and has managed many successful proxy/governance campaigns.

Prior to joining Alliance, he held executive position at Fintech startup, FusionIQ. Tom was Executive VicePresident at EQ managing its proxy/governance business, he also held ExecutiveVice President role at Computershare Georgeson and AST/DF King. Tom was a founding partner at Laurel Hill, started a proxy/surveillance business at Manufacurers Hanover Trust Co. and started at Morrow & Co. all while assisting clients with proxy campaigns, proxy fights, activist situations and corporate governance concerns.

Tom is active member with EEI(Edison Electric Institute), AGA (American Gas Association), SSA (ShareholderServices Association) Society of Governance Professionals, NIRI (NationalInvestor Relations Institute) and CIRI (Canadian Investor Relations Institute).

]]> Guy Freemantle https://allianceadvisors.com/staff-member/guy-freemantle/ Tue, 21 Jan 2025 21:22:13 +0000 https://allianceadvisors.com/?post_type=staff&p=54381 A trusted financial executive, with extensive expertise, overseeing the financial integrity of client operations within dynamic professional services environments. Performing diverse and varied roles, leveraging strategic leadership and advanced analytical skills, to deliver sustainable and profitable business growth and enhanced team collaboration. Passionate about optimizing process and data integrity to influence strategic decision making and improving efficiency as a part of a high-performance culture.

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