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Contributor profiles<br />

FTI Consulting<br />

88 Pine Street, 32nd Floor<br />

New York, NY, 10005<br />

United States<br />

Tel + 212 742 8964<br />

www.fticonsulting.com<br />

convertible debt offerings and going-private<br />

transactions. Mr. Hughes’s recent initial<br />

public offerings include Infoblox, Green Dot<br />

and ShoreTel. He has also represented<br />

Cisco Systems and Symantec on numerous<br />

public and private offerings of debt<br />

securities. Mr. Hughes regularly advises<br />

companies on disclosure and reporting<br />

obligations under U.S. federal securities<br />

laws, corporate governance issues and<br />

stock exchange listing obligations. He<br />

also advises a variety of late-stage private<br />

companies.<br />

122 NYSE IPO Guide<br />

Elizabeth Saunders<br />

Chairman, Americas—Strategic<br />

Communications<br />

elizabeth.saunders@fticonsulting.com<br />

Elizabeth Saunders is Americas Chairman<br />

of the Strategic Communications segment<br />

at FTI Consulting, and is based in Chicago<br />

and New York.<br />

The Strategic Communications segment<br />

at FTI Consulting is a global, financial<br />

and corporate communications firm with<br />

in-depth expertise in investor relations<br />

(IR), capital markets communications, and<br />

transaction and crisis communications. It<br />

is consistently ranked by Mergermarket as<br />

one of the top M&A firms globally, and was<br />

named the 2012 “Corporate Agency of the<br />

Year” by The Holmes Report.<br />

Ms. Saunders also leads the Americas<br />

Financial Communications practice,<br />

and specializes in building best-practice<br />

financial communications programs across<br />

a wide spectrum of clients. She serves as<br />

senior counsel for business transformation<br />

assignments, and has actively worked on<br />

post-merger communications, CEO transitions<br />

and restructurings for Fortune 500 companies,<br />

including the Coca-Cola acquisition of its<br />

largest North American bottler, CCE; the Dow<br />

Chemical acquisition of Rohm & Haas; the<br />

merger of Knight Capital Group and GETCO;<br />

and various activism contests, defending<br />

companies from Carl Icahn, Janna Partners<br />

and Relational Advisors.<br />

Renowned for her expertise in the area<br />

of corporate governance, Ms. Saunders<br />

has published numerous articles; lectured<br />

throughout the U.S. on shareholder activism<br />

strategies; and been quoted in Board &<br />

Directors Magazine, The New York Times<br />

and The Wall Street Journal. She was also<br />

named to the Crain’s Chicago Business<br />

“40 Under 40” list, and has spoken to the<br />

National Association of Corporate Directors<br />

(NACD) and WomenCorporateDirectors<br />

(WCD).<br />

Prior to this, Ms. Saunders was a cofounder<br />

of Ashton Partners, one of the<br />

top-15 independent IR firms in the U.S. FTI<br />

Consulting acquired Ashton partners in 2001.<br />

Ms. Saunders holds a law degree from<br />

DePaul University with a concentration in<br />

securities law, and a BBA in finance from the<br />

University of Notre Dame. She is a member<br />

of National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI)<br />

Senior Roundtable, and is a former NIRI board<br />

member and Emerging Issues subcommittee<br />

chair. Ms. Saunders is also actively involved<br />

with Catholic Charities and The Cradle.<br />

Leigh Parrish<br />

Senior Managing Director—Strategic<br />

Communications<br />

leigh.parrish@fticonsulting.com<br />

Leigh Parrish is a Senior Managing Director<br />

and the Retail & Consumer Sector Leader<br />

in the Strategic Communications practice<br />

of FTI Consulting. She is based in the<br />

Company’s New York office.<br />

As a senior communications consultant<br />

with more than 15 years of experience, she<br />

has a proven track record in directing critical<br />

communications campaigns and devising<br />

multi-stakeholder strategic communications<br />

programs.<br />

Ms. Parrish’s client engagements have<br />

ranged from innovative capital markets<br />

and business media relations programs<br />

to advising clients on communications<br />

issues including corporate positioning,<br />

key message development, management<br />

transitions and terminations, financial<br />

results and related disclosures, and<br />

employee communications. She has<br />

extensive experience in event-driven, crisis<br />

and financial situations that includes initial<br />

public offerings, mergers and acquisitions,<br />

bankruptcy or restructuring, regulatory<br />

probes, litigation, product recalls and other<br />

reputational issues.<br />

Ms. Parrish’s client experience is varied<br />

having worked across industries spanning<br />

retail, consumer, education, real estate,<br />

media, and financial services. Her recent<br />

IPOs include Taylor Morrison, Restoration<br />

Hardware and Dollar General while crisis<br />

and issues management work has included<br />

clients such as Orchard Supply Hardware,<br />

American Suzuki Corporation, Fairfield<br />

Residential, Phillips Foods, Circuit City,

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