I am a senior communications professional with extensive corporate and agency experience in reputation management, strategic positioning, marketing communications, and media and investor relations. I have extensive experience in the insurance, financial and professional services industries. Prior to forming my communications consultancy, I served as director of executive communications for UBS Warburg and PaineWebber, where I created award-winning financial reports, brochures, internet applications and media relations programs. My agency work took place at Hill and Knowlton and Manning, Selvage and Lee, where I led assignments involving crisis communications, merger and acquisition transactions, and financial relations, as well as devising reputation and visibility strategies for Banker's Trust, Aetna, and State Street Bank, among others. I began my career in finance, working as an investment banker at The Chase Manhattan Bank, First Boston and Drexel Burnham Lambert, where I he