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Michael W. Robinson
Levick Strategic Communications
Michael W. Robinson is a
trusted counselor and strategist to global C-Suite executives, elected
officials, and financial market leaders. His focus includes corporate
communications, strategy, and reputation leadership for public and
private companies; crisis communications and regulatory-legal
investigations and litigation; public affairs and legislative advocacy;
corporate governance; and investor relations.
As the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Public Affairs and
Policy Chief under Chairman Harvey Pitt, Mr. Robinson drove the
development of the Commission’s policies and actions across a wide array
of issues including Sarbanes-Oxley, Enron, and WorldCom.
Mr. Robinson subsequently led the communications initiatives in the
U.S., Europe, and Asia in connection with Freddie Mac’s $6 billion
accounting restatement. As Vice President of Friedman Billings Ramsey
Group, Inc. – one of the U.S.’s 10 largest investment banks – Mr.
Robinson directed all external and internal marketing and corporate
communications.
Mr. Robinson also directed global communications for The Nasdaq Stock
Market and the NASD. Other experience includes directing the
communications efforts around the $98 billion Exxon-Mobil merger as part
of Mobil’s communications team; acting as a spokesman for the Department
of Justice; and working as a member of President George H.W. Bush’s
communications team.
As a writer at The New York Times in the 1980s, Mr. Robinson was part of
the investigative reporting team that won a Pulitzer Prize for stories
on the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger.
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