Company History

The story of Georgeson is fundamentally the story of two companies – Georgeson & Company Inc., founded in 1935 by Lloyd Georgeson, and Shareholder Communications Corporation, founded in 1969 by Alexander Miller.

Both began as proxy solicitation firms – Georgeson & Co. the first in the world – and both engaged in aggressive programs of expansion and innovation. In 1999, Shareholder Communications Corporation acquired Georgeson & Co., forming Georgeson Shareholder Communications Inc.

In 2003 Computershare acquired Georgeson Shareholder Communications and renamed the company, simply, Georgeson. 

Over its long history, Georgeson pioneered proxy solicitation, Asset Reunification™ and the contemporary approach to small shareholder programs. We were the first to use the telephone as a strategic tool to reach large numbers of shareholders. Innovation and speed – in products and problem solving – have defined our history.

For more than 70 years Georgeson has been communicating important information and eliciting response from shareholders.

We began offering our services in Canada in 1983 and currently have offices in Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver. Over the past 25 years, we have provided and continued to provide corporate issuers with the necessary support and guidance to achieve maximum shareholder response in a cost-effective manner.

Our staff has extensive experience designing and managing programs for any type of security-related issues.

Georgeson brings together the best of the shareholder-servicing world – the talent, the knowledge, the techniques and the technology – all in one place. We're an organization of in-depth experts who have joined together to meet a company’s unique goals, whatever the scope of their challenges or the size of their company.