George Sard

George Sard is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sard Verbinnen.

Before co-founding the firm in 1992, Mr. Sard was Chairman of the New York office of Ogilvy Adams & Rinehart, a corporate/financial public relations firm.

For over 30 years, he has represented Fortune 500 companies and private firms in many industries on long-term investor and media positioning programs and in high-profile crises and special situations. These include mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, restructurings, earnings issues, high-level executive changes, and sensitive legal and regulatory matters.

Recent representation highlights include:

• The Special Committee of the Dell Board on a contested take-private transaction
• Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile on the contested acquisition of MetroPCS
• McGraw-Hill on the DOJ lawsuit against Standard & Poors
• Wynn Resorts on a dispute with its largest shareholder
• NYSE Euronext on its pending acquisition by ICE

Mr. Sard attended Swarthmore College and graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. degree in English from Clark University.