Gary M. Fishman is an investor and public relations consultant with significant experience helping publicly traded and privately held companies maximize opportunities and minimize challenges.
His expertise includes IPOs, turnarounds, equity and debt offerings, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, crises and bankruptcies. He is known for creating Marvel’s comic book annual and quarterly reports, one of Wall Street’s most successful retail/institutional investor marketing campaigns.
Gary has been on the leading edge of IR technology, implementing X Spaces earnings calls, online/mobile annual reports, and video letters to shareholders, as well as converting IR documents to Workiva. He also has contributed articles to industry media outlets, guest lectured at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism Knight-Bagehot Fellowship, and helped produce books on high frequency trading, the Facebook IPO, and stock picking.
In 2025, Gary joined PondelWilkinson after serving as managing director of Anreder & Company, head of Publicis Group’s US Corporate and Investor Relations practice, and founder of the Hudson Stone IR and PR firm, which he later merged into Publicis.
A magna cum laude graduate from Boston University College of Communication, he holds a Bachelor of Science degree and completed post-graduate courses in financial and portfolio analysis at New York Institute of Finance.
His charitable efforts include BreastCancerFreebies.com, a directory of free resources for women with breast and other female cancers, founded by his wife Bethany Kandel. He also spent many years volunteering for the US Postal Service’s Operation Santa.