Michael W. Robinson
Michael W. Robinson is an award-winning and trusted counselor and strategist to global C-Suite executives, elected officials, and financial market leaders. Mr. Robinson has been directly involved with the highest-profile policy, business, and financial issues of the last 25 years, from Wall Street to the White House as well as governments around the world.
His focus includes corporate communications, strategy, and reputation leadership for public/private companies; regulatory-legal investigations and litigation; public affairs and legislative advocacy; corporate governance; and investor relations.
Mr. Robinson is a key executive member of Levick’s Anti-corruption and Good Governance practice, a fully integrated component of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Anti-corruption Center of Excellence.
As the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Public Affairs and Policy Chief under Chairman Harvey Pitt, Mr. Robinson drove the development and articulation of the Commission’s policies and actions across a wide array of issues including Sarbanes-Oxley, Enron, WorldCom, and host of other high-profile enforcement and policy matters. He personally counseled the SEC Chairman and the individual Commissioners on all matters related to relations with external constituencies.
Mr. Robinson subsequently led the communications initiatives in the U.S., Europe, and Asia in connection with Freddie Mac’s $6 billion accounting restatement and successfully managed the subsequent political impact of this development. As Vice President of Friedman Billings Ramsey – one of the nation’s ten largest investment banks and venture capital firms – Mr. Robinson directed all external and internal marketing and corporate communications, as well as investor and government relations.
He also directed global communications for The NASDAQ Stock Market and the NASD. While there, he led the effort to establish NASD Regulation as a viable regulator for the securities industry and created communications/marketing campaigns that positioned NASDAQ to retain its largest listed companies.
During his tenure as Senior Managing Director and Deputy Corporate Practice Leaders in Hill and Knowlton’s Washington office, Mr. Robinson spearheaded brand development, executive leadership campaigns, and corporate reputation initiatives, as well as crisis communications for clients including Hewlett-Packard, Yahoo, American Management Systems (AMS), Ernst & Young, and KPMG.
Mr. Robinson was a key member of the global communication team for Mobil Corporation, and helped direct the communications efforts that developed and implemented the successful communications strategy in support of the $98 billion Exxon-Mobil merger.
He’s been a spokesman for the Department of Justice as well as a member of President George H.W. Bush’s communications team.
In addition to being a contributing author in the 2008/2009 edition of The Americas Restructuring and Insolvency Guide (published by Morgan Stanley and PricewaterhouseCoopers); Mr. Robinson is a widely quoted expert across a range of financial, crisis, and Washington-based public relations issues.
At The New York Times in the 1980s, Mr. Robinson was a member of the Business Section when it was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the October 1987 stock market crash. He was also a researcher for the investigative reporting portion of the team that won a Pulitzer Prize for stories on the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger.
In addition to being a contributing author in the 2008/2009 edition of The Americas Restructuring and Insolvency Guide (published by Morgan Stanley and PricewaterhouseCoopers); Mr. Robinson is a widely quoted expert across a range of financial, crisis, and Washington-based public relations issues.
At The New York Times in the 1980s, Mr. Robinson was a member of the Business Section when it was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the October 1987 stock market crash. He was also a researcher for the investigative reporting portion of the team that won a Pulitzer Prize for stories on the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger.
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