Tim is uniquely qualified to advise us on investor relations and his insight has been invaluable, particularly during these turbulent times. More than anything else, I appreciate Tim’s ‘no-nonsense’ way of communication and telling it like it is.

Stephen D. Newlin/Chairman, President & CEO
PolyOne Corporation (NYSE: POL)

Your understanding of our industry and your willingness to provide ‘color’ in your research is probably one of the reasons that you are a highly respected and recognized top analyst.

Frank C. Sullivan / Chairman & CEO
RPM International (NYSE: RPM)

Relevant Experience Equals Relevant Advice

Tim Gerdeman

Timothy Gerdeman

President

Since founding StreetSmart Strategies in 2003, Timothy Gerdeman (tgerdeman@streetsmartstrategies.com) has helped numerous corporations develop concise, targeted financial messages and investment themes, fueling increased equity research coverage sponsorship and materially higher equity valuations. In several instances the recommendations of StreetSmart Strategies impacted the ultimate direction of internal board-level strategies. Besides currently serving as strategic investor relations counsel to certain officers of select multibillion dollar publicly-traded corporations, Gerdeman is also an active participant in the private equity and venture capital industries both as a co-investor and a strategic service provider. Valued for his strategic insights, Gerdeman is on the Board of Directors of revolutionary online market research firm Op4G (www.op4g.com), and he holds Advisory Board positions at luxury vodka producer Double Cross Vodka (www.doublecrossvodka.com) and custom golf club chain Club Champion (www.clubchampiongolf.com).

Gerdeman founded StreetSmart Strategies following his long tenure as an Institutional Investor-ranked specialty chemicals & materials equity research analyst at such Wall Street icons as Lehman Brothers (retiring from Lehman Brothers in 2003 as Managing Director and Senior U.S. Equity Research Analyst), Salomon Brothers, and Citigroup. During his Wall Street career, Gerdeman was intimately involved in the entire capital markets process, spanning myriad Initial Public Offerings, secondary offerings, and many noteworthy mergers & acquisitions. Earlier in his career Gerdeman was a Senior Consultant at international management consulting firm Kline & Company, focusing on industrial/basic industries mergers & acquisitions and other high-level strategic engagements. Gerdeman taught Principles of Marketing at DePaul University (the nation’s largest Catholic university) as an Adjunct Professor during the 2003 and 2004 academic years. Gerdeman, a former member of both the Ohio Army National Guard and Maryland Air National Guard, recently completed multi-year terms on the Membership Committee of Evanston Golf Club and the Admissions Committee of University Club of Chicago.

Recognized as an indispensable information source, over the past 25 years Gerdeman has been quoted and/or sourced in hundreds of media articles, spanning The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Investor Business Daily, Dow Jones Investor News, Reuters, Bloomberg, regional newspapers and various trade journals.