In 1987, Silver was recruited by Carl Terzian Associates as a senior account executive to help oversee the firm's financial and law firm clients. Silver proceeded to lead a team that won the prestigious PRSM award from the Public Relations Society of America for Crisis Communications. In 1994, he left to start Silver Public Relations, focusing on financial public relations, investor relations, litigation public relations and crisis public relations.

Publications

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.

In the Winter 2005 issue of The Public Relations Strategist, Silver wrote an essay/thought piece titled "Creating Transparency for Public Companies: The Convergence of PR and IR in the Post-Sarbanes-Oxley Marketplace."

He has written on financial and legal public relations issues for the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Business Journal and Los Angeles Daily Journal, California Law Business. On March 29, 2004, David Silver was interviewed and profiled in Investors Business Daily.

Speaking

David Silver lectures on financial public relations, litigation public relations, crisis communications management and investor relations.

He has been invited to speak at an international symposium on investor relations in Mexico City from 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

David Silver is a past board member of the Turnaround Management Association, Southern California chapter, serving as its chair for public relations.

He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Financial Communications Section of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA).

For more information, please contact:

Silver Public Relations
605 W. Olympic Blvd., Suite #480
Standard Oil Building
Los Angeles, CA 90015
(213) 488-6161, (213) 622-6791 fax
e-mail: info@silverpr.com