Sheila Ennis

Sheila Ennis brings to her strategic financial communications practice more than 20 years of equity capital markets experience as a sell side analyst and investment banker at technology-focused investment banks. In her 30-year career in Silicon Valley, she has advised on hundreds of IPOs and other capital raising transactions as well as dozens of M&A assignments for both public and private companies.

In addition to transactions support, she provides sophisticated counsel in activism defense, litigation, business model transformations, major internal and external crises, management changes and other high-stakes moments. Sheila uses her prior experience “across the table” to conduct particularly rigorous rehearsals to prepare executives and board members for stakeholder engagement.

Recent engagements include advising Medtronic in its announced intent to spin off its dialysis business; Comcast in periodic investor relations initiatives; Webull in its public listing and ongoing investor relations; Seagen in its $43 billion sale to Pfizer; Hershey in special situations investor relations matters; McKesson in its Investor Day preparation; Sinovac in its multi-year activism defense and litigation communications; Crowd Street in its litigation defense communications and reputation management; and GitLab in crisis preparation and response.

Sheila is a frequent speaker on IPO readiness from metrics disclosure strategy to board member preparation for shareholder engagement.