Capital Markets Experience and a Network of Financial Community Relationships
We launched MBS Value Partners to provide a unique level of experience and service to companies looking for partners who can assist them in navigating complex investor communications issues and gaining a reputation for excellent execution.
Our professionals bring together direct financial community backgrounds and experience gained from years of working as both consultants and corporate communications executives. As a result, we are able to look at issues from all sides and offer our clients well-grounded advice as well as access to our network of relationships with key decision makers who are active in institutional investment, private capital-raising, equity research and corporate finance.
Partners - Betsy Brod
Betsy Brod brings more than 25 years of Wall Street-related experience to the investor relations field. She founded Brod & Schaffer, an investor relations firm in 2001, after more than ten years with Morgen-Walke Associates as a partner and managing director, where she specialized in advising companies operating in a broad range of industries. Ms. Brod has advised on strategic communications related to mergers and acquisitions and crises, and she has worked closely with U.S. domestic and international companies. In 1999, Ms. Brod was honored by PRSA with the Silver Anvil Award for excellence in investor relations. Prior to joining M-W, Ms. Brod worked for a French investment bank as well as on the investment side of the Equitable Life Insurance Society of America. Ms. Brod holds an MBA in Finance from New York University's Stern School of Business and a BS in Economics and Mathematics from Simmons College.
Partners - Lynn Morgen
Lynn Morgen began her business career as a credit analyst with Dun & Bradstreet in New York and Brussels and then moved to the equity side where she held both research and institutional sales positions. In 1982, Ms. Morgen co-founded the investor relations consulting firm of Morgen-Walke Associates, Inc. By the time of its sale in 2000 to a private equity firm, Morgen-Walke was the largest independent firm of its kind with full service offices in New York, Boston, Dallas, San Francisco, Paris and Frankfurt. Prior to founding MBS Value Partners, Ms. Morgen spent five years as Group Vice President and member of the Strategic Planning Group at STMicroelectronics N.V., Europe's largest semiconductor company, listed on the NYSE, Euronext and the Borsa Italiana. She has a BA from CCNY.
Partners - Monique Skruzny
Monique Skruzny received a BA in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business. After beginning her career as an investment banker at James D. Wolfensohn, Inc., Ms. Skruzny went on to become a founding team member of one of News Corp.'s satellite television systems (now part of the DirecTV network) where she coordinated public fund raising of over $500 million and partnership activities. She then joined Melia Americas as its COO and CFO and took the Latin American real estate company public, raising $200 million. After holding executive positions with responsibilities for strategic communications, public affairs and investor relations at AOL's NASDAQ-traded subsidiary from 2001-2005, Ms. Skruzny became a founding partner of MBS Value Partners in 2006. She is fluent in Spanish and highly proficient in Portuguese. Ms. Skruzny is a director of Pro Mujer, a not for profit microfinance organization, and a former director of the Council of the Americas.
Managing Director - Ron Vidal
Ron has over 25 years of telecommunications, internet-enabling technology and industrial services experience having held senior executive positions in new ventures, strategic planning, investor relations and public affairs at several leading infrastructure-based organizations. Prior to MBS, Ron was the Group Vice President of Investor Relations and Emerging Opportunities for Level 3 Communications, a NASDAQ listed fiber optic telecommunications service provider, where he developed and communicated key messaging for over $12 billion of equity, debt and convertible bond offerings. Prior to Level 3, Ron was Vice President of New Ventures at MFS Communications, the largest Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) in the United States. At MFS Communications Ron's teams developed the first commercial DSL product for Internet access. Ron began his career with Kiewit Industrial Company project managing fiber optic cable and oil pipeline construction and installation. Ron holds a Bachelor of Science from Drexel University.
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