Our Leaders
Thomas S. Cronin
Tom Cronin is a Partner and Operations Manager at Phoenix Advisory Partners, LLC. He has specialized in special situations including friendly mergers and acquisitions, unsolicited takeovers, proxy contests, restructurings, bank and thrift conversions and corporate governance consulting.
Tom has been in the proxy industry for 30 plus years. He has been involved in developing strategic campaigns dealing with security holders. He has worked on contested campaigns including; Value Act Capital vs. Acxiom Corporation, PeopleSoft Inc. vs. Oracle Corp., Tier Technologies vs. Discovery Partners, Bancorp RI vs. PL Capital and CFS Financial vs. PL Capital.
During his 30 year career he has also represented Merck in its $57 billion merger with Schering - Plough, Bank One in its $55 billion merger with JP Morgan Chase, Bank America with their $44 billion merger with Merrill Lynch, First Data in its $7 billion merger with Concord EFS; and Siebel Systems in its $6 billion merger with Oracle.
Tom was an original Partner with Laurel Hill Advisory Group, LLC for the last three years and spent 10 years as a Sr. Managing Director and a member of the Merger and Acquisition team at Georgeson Inc.. Previously, he spent over 10 years serving in various roles at Morrow & Co., Inc.
Jon Einsidler
Jon is a partner with Phoenix Advisory Partners specializing in mergers, tender offers, and debt transactions. His expertise includes communication with the arbitrageurs and hedge funds as well as with institutional investors. He has been doing proxy solicitation and information agent work for the past seventeen years, the first fourteen with Georgeson where he was a senior managing director and the last three as a partner with Laurel Hill Advisory Group. During that period, he worked on 75 to 100 transactions a year helping to complete some of the largest deals. Most recently he worked on the Bank of America- Merrill Lynch and Merck- Schering Plough mergers as well as doing several debt transactions (tender offers, consent solicitations, and exchange offers) for GE Capital. He was also the founder of Georgeson Securities Corporation and Laurel Hill Securities Corporation, registered broker dealers that acted as dealer manager for several tender offers. He has series 7, 24, and 63 licenses.
Prior to working in proxy solicitation, Jon was an investment banker for twelve years, most notably with EuroPartners Securities Corporation (owned by Credit Lyonnais, Commerzbank, Banco di Roma, and Bank Leu) where he was the Vice President and department head for Corporate Finance.
Jon has a BA degree (cum laude) in mathematics and economics from Dartmouth College and an MBA in finance from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.
Glenn G. Keeling
Mr. Keeling began his career in the mid 1980's, holding a number of senior management positions in the electronic publishing and newswire communications services industries in Canada, most notably at Canada NewsWire, The Globe & Mail (Info Globe) and The Financial Post (FP Online). In 1998, he became President and Chief Executive Officer of Georgeson Canada, and he held this position until 2007, when he moved to Laurel Hill Advisory Group as a founder and partner. Most recently, Mr. Keeling, along with his partners from Laurel Hill, developed Phoenix Advisory Partners, a significant cross border and internationally connected shareholder communications and corporate governance advisory firm in concert with Pacific Equity Partners (PEP) from Australia and American Stock Transfer (AST) in New York.
Over the past 18 years, Mr. Keeling has developed significant expertise in the shareholder services and corporate governance arenas. He has a broad network of contacts in the legal, investment banking and Issuer communities in Canada and the U.S., and has emerged as an authority in Canada for issues involving strategic solicitation or corporate governance advisory issues.
John Siemann
John Siemann is currently President and Partner at Phoenix Advisory Partners, a recently-formed proxy solicitation and corporate governance advisory firm. Mr. Siemann began his career in 1985 as Vice President and head of the proxy solicitation and stock watch departments for The Carter Organization, perhaps the most high-profile solicitation firm of the "corporate raider" era. In 1990 he helped found Beacon Hill Partners, a small, specialized New York City-based solicitation firm, and followed that with service as a Managing Director at Georgeson, Inc. from 2000 through mid-2007. Most recently, he was Partner and Chief Operating Officer at The Laurel Hill Advisory Group, a proxy solicitation and corporate governance advisory firm .
Over the past 25 years Mr. Siemann has had the opportunity to be involved in more than one thousand solicitations, ranging from routine election of directors to major takeover contests. He is currently involved in providing solicitation and corporate governance advisory services to a broad range of clients and has been in the forefront of analyzing and detailing the new direction of institutional activists and how to prepare for the new proxy environment.
Mr. Siemann holds a Bachelors degree from Fordham University, an MA degree from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from Columbia University.