David Silver was one of 20 Wall Street experts chosen to write a chapter in the book: "The New Investor Relations: Expert Perspectives on the State of the Art," published in October 2003 by Bloomberg Press. In this chapter titled “The IR-PR Nexus,” Silver argues that for public companies to be transparent for investors, institutional holders, analysts, shareholders and the media in the post-Sarbanes-Oxley marketplace, CEOs must converge their public relations and investor relations functions.
Articles
David Silver is a prolific writer on how the law intersects with communications and has penned numerous articles on financial and legal public relations issues. His writing has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Business Journal, the Public Relations Strategist, Dow Jones & Company Daily Bankruptcy Review, Californial Law Business, and others.
On March 29, 2004, David Silver was interviewed and profiled in Investors Business Daily.
For details on articles written by David Silver and to read several online, please see the articles section.
Speaking
David Silver is accredited by the State Bar of California to provide Minimum Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) sessions for lawyers at law firms and corporations and companies and bar associations in the state on “Managing the Litigation PR Process: When Public Opinion Matters.” This one-hour session gives all lawyers attending strategies on communications for either the plaintiffs of defendants in litigation and they receive one-hour of MCLE credit.
David Silver lectures on Mergers & Acquisitions and Restructuring/Bankruptcy PR, as well as Financial Public Relations, Litigation Public Relations, Crisis Communications Management and Investor Relations.
He spoke at an international symposium on investor relations in Mexico City on September 21-23, 2005, in front of close to 100 Mexican public companies and members of the Mexican Stock Exchange.
Silver was a panel speaker at the Public Relations Society of America International Conference in New York from October 23-26, 2004. He spoke on the topic of the IR-PR nexus and the importance of integrating both functions to provide consistent and strategic messages for the Wall Street audiences – buy-side and sell-side analysts, institutional holders, shareholders, the regulatory agencies and the media covering public companies.
He spoke in front of hundreds of executives on the convergence of public relations and investor relations at Wall Street companies at the International Public Relations Society of America Conference in New Orleans from October 25-28th, 2003.
David Silver has lectured at the Financial Executives International, Los Angeles chapter, UCLA and at USC.
Silver has won awards for public speaking from Toastmasters International. The response to the lectures and article has been phenomenal. To book an engagement or arrange an interview, please use the inquiries form.
Education
A graduate of UCLA (BA, MA) and USC (MA), David Silver distinguished himself in the academic arena by making the Dean's Honor list. Silver mentors MBA students at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California and Silver has passed the rigorous eight-hour written and oral APR exam given by the Public Relations Society of America in 1999 and is accredited.
He is a graduate of the Investor Relations Certificate Program -- which includes seven rigorous classes -- at University of California, Irvine, which has been formulated in its extension program with the National Investor Relations Institute in Washington D.C.
Positions Held
In 2009, David Silver became the Chair of the Executive Committee of the Financial Communications Section of the Public Relations Society of America. Members include financial communications executives at corporations, companies, agencies and financial institutions across the United States.
David Silver is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, the premier organization that provides a source of education and analysis on insolvency issues for restructuring, turnaround and insolvency professionals nationally and globally.
David Silver was elected to the board of directors of the National Investor Relations Institute, Los Angeles chapter for 2009-2010.
For more information, please contact:
Silver Public Relations
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As a public relations and investor relations executive with an expertise in leadership communications for CEOs and senior management, David Silver has been managing successful strategic programs for law firms, corporations, investment banks, Wall Street firms and executives since 1987.
