Richard A. Mahony
Richard A. Mahony is a senior communications professional with extensive experience helping senior executives and their organizations achieve their strategic goals. He has 25 years of experience in strategic communications, investor relations, media engagement, marketing and advertising, in US and international markets.
Mr. Mahony develops strategies for clients facing critical challenges stemming from competitive pressures, litigation, regulatory enforcement actions, hostile shareholder initiatives or crisis situations. He has worked with CEOs of many companies, from Fortune 500 enterprises to start-‐ ups, and he specializes in strategies to present complex financial, legal or scientific issues effectively.
Mr. Mahony began his professional career at J.P. Morgan & Co. as an investment banker, where he specialized in capital markets transactions. He was later appointed head of the firm’s worldwide media relations group and held senior communications roles in New York and London, where he served on the firm’s Operating Committee.
For ten years Mr. Mahony held senior positions at leading communications advisory firms, including managing partner at Kreab Gavin Anderson and executive vice president at Edelman, which under his leadership became the industry’s top-‐ranked financial practice. During this period, he worked on critical issues for some of the most widely recognized brands in financial services, retailing and energy, including Bank of America, BP, Cantor Fitzgerald, CIT, Gazprom, Hyundai Capital, HSBC, Morgan Stanley, National Financial Partners, SwissRe and Toys ‘R’ Us.
A native of Minnesota, Mr. Mahony is a graduate of Macalester College and holds a Masters Degree from Harvard University, where he was a research associate in the Harvard Energy & Environmental Policy Center. Early in his career Richard led a nationally recognized economic development program for the City of St. Paul as a member of the mayor’s senior staff.
In addition to his consulting practice, Mr. Mahony is the managing member of a private investment partnership and is the founder of The Carol Mahony Scholarship at Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana, which was established in memory of his sister, who died of ovarian cancer.
Mr. Mahony holds dual US-‐Irish citizenship and lives in Connecticut.