SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Blueshirt Group today announced new additions to its team that
further extend its leadership in IPO advisory, investor relations and
capital markets expertise. Ryan Hutchinson and Irmina Blaszczyk have
joined as Managing Directors in Blueshirt’s San Francisco headquarters.
Both professionals bring significant senior-level experience in the
technology sector and capital markets. The teams led by Ryan and Irmina
will further strengthen Blueshirt’s technology franchise and contribute
to the firm’s leading market share representing technology-related IPOs.
Over the last 18 months, Blueshirt has represented approximately 40% of
technology-related IPOs for U.S. companies, including four of the top 10
performing technology IPOs during that period. Since 2010, The Blueshirt
Group has worked with more than 75 IPOs. The firm is presently engaged
to represent a number of high-quality upcoming IPOs, both U.S. and
Asia-based, several of which have already filed publicly with the
Securities and Exchange Commission.
“Blueshirt has represented more technology IPOs than any other agency,
and the addition of Ryan and Irmina will further extend our position as
the ‘go-to’ firm for IPO advisory, investor relations and financial
media expertise,” said Blueshirt co-founder Alex Wellins. “Our
longstanding client relationships, some of which span more than 15
years, are the direct result of the value we add and the significant
return on investment we deliver.”
Ryan Hutchinson is a highly respected former equity research analyst
with 18 years of Wall Street experience. Ryan was most recently managing
director at Guggenheim Securities, with previous tenures at Pacific
Crest Securities (now KeyBanc), Lazard Capital Markets and WR Hambrecht
& Company. As an analyst, Ryan’s coverage universe included software,
security and networking. He brings extensive domain expertise and deep,
longstanding Wall Street and corporate relationships in those sectors.
In addition to IPO and investor relations assignments, Ryan will lead
Blueshirt’s expansion efforts into new strategic services including M&A
mapping and valuation analysis.
Irmina Blaszczyk brings 13 years of internal investor relations and
related experience to Blueshirt. She led successful investor relations
programs at large public and private companies including Symantec,
Brightstar, Advanced Micro Devices and ATI Technologies. Irmina also
brings strategy consulting experience from Deloitte. Irmina’s extensive
experience in implementing effective investor relations strategies will
benefit both Blueshirt’s publicly traded and IPO clients.
In addition to its technology sector leadership, Blueshirt provides
investor relations, capital markets expertise and financial media
relations services to companies in the energy, agriculture, healthcare
and industrial sectors.
About The Blueshirt Group
Founded in 1999, The Blueshirt Group offers IPO advisory, investor
relations, financial media relations and crisis communications to
leading growth companies globally. Blueshirt is based in San Francisco,
with offices in New York, Beijing and Stockholm. Reach us at www.blueshirtgroup.com
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