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Jordan M. Darrow is a career investor relations practitioner with over 25 years of experience. Drawing on his career in counseling and as a corporate executive, Mr. Darrow assists publicly-traded companies with their efforts to increase awareness among investment community, media and trade industry constituencies, as well as developing and implementing productive communications strategies among the Company’s workforce and customer base.
Prior to founding Darrow Associates in 2005, Mr. Darrow served for nearly five years as the Vice President of Investor Relations and Corporate Communications for PRIMUS Telecommunications Group, Incorporated. He had previously served as a consultant to PRIMUS. While at PRIMUS and among his professional accomplishments, Mr. Darrow contributed to the global telecommunications company’s 2003 award for Best Business Turnaround presented in the first American Business Awards (“Stevies”) competition.
Mr. Darrow began his investor relations career with Taylor Rafferty Associates, Inc. (TRA), the leading cross-border IR firm at that time. Based in New York, the firm assisted a clientele of blue chip foreign corporations in their efforts to access the US capital markets. Following TRA, Mr. Darrow rounded out his professional skills by joining The Financial Relations Board, Inc. (FRB), then the largest independent IR firm in the country. At FRB, later known as FRB/Weber Shandwick, he provided IR counsel to small- and medium-sized domestic companies, as well as led the firm’s East Coast Telecommunications and Multi-industry Market Intelligence practice.
During his tenure with FRB, Mr. Darrow distinguished himself by receiving accolades from industry peers. In 1996, he won the prestigious Creativity in Public Relations Awards (CIPRA) competition for the Best Investor Relations Program for an Initial Public Offering. The following year, he received FRB’ s Pacesetter of the Year Award, which is awarded in recognition of the agency’s and industry’s top professional work. Mr. Darrow has been quoted in numerous financial, trade and IR industry publications, and has spoken on business radio programs and given talks on investment community topics for over 10 years.
Mr. Darrow earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Economics with a minor concentration in Business Communications from the State University of New York. He has been a member of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI)and NIRI’s New York chapter. Among his volunteer work and philanthropic endeavors, Mr. Darrow is a co-Founder and President of LI Invest, Inc., a not-for-profit organization established to promote investment into Long Island. Leveraging IR tactics and relationships, LI Invest was the first independent organization to conduct investor conference to showcase publicly-traded companies with headquarters or which have economic or other interests on Long Island, New York. For nearly 10 years he has been on the Board of Directors of the Long Island Capital Alliance, the region’s leading non-profit capital formation and business development organization, and remained on the Board after moving to Austin, TX in 2016. Mr. Darrow is a past Executive Board Member and Treasurer of the Manhattan Special Olympics and member of the Wildlife Conservatory Fund.