Streetsmart Strategies -
Where Wall Street Intersects Main Street®
StreetSmart Strategies is a highly respected global management consulting firm, providing executive-level strategic investor relations, financial communications and reputation management counsel to publicly-traded industrial / basic industries corporations, including being recognized as the industry leader in specialty chemicals & materials stocks.
StreetSmart Strategies is perhaps best known for its reputation of enhancing the image of its clients within the financial community to achieve incremental (“sell-side”) equity research coverage, more widespread and desirable investor (“buyside”) recognition and ownership, premium equity valuations versus peer group companies, and reduced hedge fund activity. Our firm has demonstrated that sophisticated investor relations strategies are increasingly required for corporations facing declining or in some cases no bulge-bracket sell-side equity research coverage, as well as corporations plagued by hedge fund “short sellers” and/or shareholder activists - a rapidly growing trend.
Our Founding - What’s in a Name?
While flying at 35,000 feet over America’s heartland to his third city in one day during a fourth quarter 2002 business trip, our founder -then a Managing Director and Senior U.S. Equity Research Analyst at Lehman Brothers- contemplated his upcoming retirement from Lehman Brothers and began to chart a future that could not be reduced into a three-letter airport code following yet another 100,000 mile travel year. By the time the plane reached the gate, he had a plan in his head and a neatly folded United Airlines cocktail napkin in his suit coat pocket. Written on the napkin in block letters was STREETSMART STRATEGIES, WHERE WALL STREET INTERSECTS MAIN STREET.
Our founder, who grew up at 208 South Main Street in a small rural Ohio town, was asked how he arrived at the aforementioned company name, to which he replied “Being in a reflective mood as my plane was landing and another travel year came to a close, I asked myself how I wanted to be remembered by the hundreds of professional acquaintances made during my decade on Wall Street. I decided that I most wanted to be remembered as the kid from rural Ohio who not only survived but actually thrived on Wall Street because of his uncanny street smarts.”