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CISO Redefined: Navigating Transactions and the Cybersecurity Landscape
Are cybersecurity risks quietly killing deals and eroding deal value? Learn more about how transactions are at risk and how CISOs can step up.
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Colonial Pipeline Rewrites the Rules of Cyber Crisis Communications
Read how FTI Consulting’s corporate communications and cybersecurity experts worked together to help Colonial Pipeline navigate a ransomware attack.
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Navigating America’s Fast-Changing AI Regulatory Landscape
Are you confident your compliance program keeps pace with America’s rapidly evolving AI regulatory landscape and shields your business from legal risk?
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Extreme Weather Is Now a Board-Level Risk
Extreme weather is a growing business risk, requiring boards to assess exposure, close gaps and integrate resilience into strategy and governance.
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Strengthen oversight. Sustain value.
Corporate directors: Governing the enterprise amid rising risk
As emerging risks and globalization redefine the board role, we combine deep technical expertise and seasoned judgment to help boards lead confidently, anticipate what’s next and steer through disruption.
Lead with confidence
Set enterprise direction with conviction, informed by battle-tested judgment and board-level perspective.
In nearly every boardroom conversation today, human capital has become a core enterprise risk and value creation discussion — particularly on workforce planning, employee engagement and AI.
To provide effective risk oversight, boards must combine relevant skills with quality management information so they can ask the right questions.
Boards that embed regulatory readiness and sustainability into deal strategy early stand to protect value, strengthen the transaction thesis and move from announcement to execution with confidence.
How We Help
Proven outcomes for corporate directors
Boards rely on our deep technical expertise and real-world experience to address cyber risk, global complexity and accelerating enterprise change.
Our Leadership Team
Board-level challenges. Proven experience.
We support boards during their most high-stake moments with trusted, real-world expertise.
Brian Kushner has more than 40 years of board and C-level experience across more than 35 public and private companies, including serving as the CEO of four telecom companies, two software companies and a defense contractor.
“Boards of companies with successful, repeatable M&A playbooks understand that integrating key personnel — often at two or three levels below the C-suite — and optimizing cultural alignment are two of the keys to long-term M&A value creation.”
Scott Bingham has advised clients for more than 30 years on engagements throughout the deal continuum with a focus on potential targets, due diligence, contract structuring and negotiations and transition planning.
“Boards consistently rank M&A as a top growth strategy, and high-performing boards combine internal expertise with external insight to execute deals and transformations that maximize shareholder value.”
Scott Bingham
Senior Managing Director, Co-Leader of U.S. Corporate Finance, Global Co-Leader of Transactions
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Heather Wilson guides organizations through complex events including crisis response, cybersecurity incidents, regulatory inquiries, high-profile litigation, transaction communications and investor relations and public affairs.
“State-level scrutiny carries both legal and reputational risks, and state attorneys general have become some of the most consequential actors in today’s risk landscape. Boards should guide their organizations to ensure alignment among communications, public affairs and legal functions to best position themselves to shape the narrative, maintain stakeholder trust and protect their reputation during high-stakes challenges.”
Pat Tucker creates communications strategies to help clients navigate the evolving field of shareholder engagement as it relates to economic activists, vocal institutional investors and environmental, social and governance funds.
“For 70 years, we built a globalized economy. Now we’re rapidly altering its foundation. For directors, that means long-term strategic planning and risk mitigation are inextricably linked to geopolitical trade winds.”
Patrick C. Tucker
Senior Managing Director, Head of M&A and Activism Communications, Americas
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Meredith Griffanti provides communications counsel on cybersecurity preparedness and incident response matters involving sensitive data. She has worked on high-profile and highly sensitive data breaches around the world.
“From social engineering and AI to data extortion, even the largest and most sophisticated organizations are falling to cybercrime. It’s no longer about prevention — it’s about preparation.”
Meredith Griffanti
Senior Managing Director, Global Head of Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Communications
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Jordan Rae Kelly led national-level cyber incident response and strategy at the National Security Council and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. She advises clients on a broad range of cybersecurity and data privacy matters.
“Today’s volatile geopolitical environment amplifies cyber threats to organizations and their executives. Boards must prioritize resilience through incident preparedness, regulatory accountability and continuity planning to continue long-term growth amid persistent digital risks.”
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FTI Consulting is the firm today’s corporate boards call on to strengthen oversight and guide critical enterprise decisions.
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