William (Bill) Fiske has more than 20 years experience providing strategic proxy solicitation and corporate governance counsel. He develops and implements targeted investor communication strategies for publicly-traded companies involved in shareholder meetings and corporate actions, including negotiated mergers and acquisitions, unsolicited takeovers, shareholder activism and proxy contests.

Bill maintains a clientele including some of the largest public companies in America.  He has recently advised a number of companies involved in M&A transactions, including, Grey Wolf in its merger with Precision Drilling Trust, National City Corporation in its proposed merger with PNC Financial, Quintana Maritime in its merger with Excel Maritime, Phillips NV in its acquisitions of Genlyte Group and Respironics, Loan Star Funds in its acquisition of Accredited Home Lenders, Flextronics in its merger with Solectron, Cisco in its acquisition of WebEx, Filenet in its merger into IBM, Guidant in its merger with Boston Scientific, Cinergy in its merger with Duke Energy and many take private transactions including Vertrue, Intergraph and HCA Inc.

Previously, Bill was a Senior Vice President at Corporate Investor Communications, Inc., where, prior to its merger into Georgeson in 2000, he was head of the firm’s Proxy Solicitation and Corporate Governance Advisory Group.

Bill earned a bachelor’s in economics from Rutgers University. He has been quoted in a variety of industry publications including Investor Relations Magazine and The M&A Journal and has been a featured guest speaker at numerous industry seminars. Bill is a member of the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals.