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Rebecca is founder and leader of Corbin and a pioneer in investor relations globally. Over her 20-year career in capital markets, she has architected a proprietary and proven methodology to drive sustained value creation based on extensive and unparalleled Voice of Investor® research and insights-driven strategies that have consistently been validated by the global equity markets.
As a subject matter expert and renowned capital markets and investor relations strategist with a demonstrated track record of rerating companies, Rebecca is a trusted advisor and partner to boards and executives who continually seek her research-based insights and counsel. She serves a broad range of global clients across sectors and industries.
Rebecca was in her mid-twenties when she founded Corbin Advisors in 2007 and, under her leadership as CEO, the company has developed a reputation as a best-in-class partner and, as a result, has grown exponentially and continues to set records across key metrics annually. She serves as Editor-in-chief of Inside The Buy-Side®, a leading research publication covered worldwide that identifies and reports on investor sentiment trends globally and best practice. Rebecca is a highly sought after and prolific public speaker, including at the World Economic Forum in Davos, and is a recurring guest on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street.
Long committed to giving back, Rebecca dedicates significant time and resources to helping advance social services, the arts, humanities, and education. In 2020, she created Corbin for Nonprofits and committed to donating 20% of that practices’ annual operating profits to nonprofit organizations. Rebecca serves on the boards of Washington College and The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts and is a past director of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and CT Women’s Hall of Fame. She is President of the Jim and Rebecca Loree Foundation, a nonprofit, charitable organization she co-founded with her husband in 2009, which is focused on supporting secondary and higher education.
Rebecca has been a frequent honoree for business and community leadership and most recently received Hartford Business Journal’s Annual Women in Business Award, which recognizes outstanding Connecticut-based female CEOs, entrepreneurs and senior-level executives who have mastered their industry and are admired by the business community. She holds a B.A. in Business Management from Washington College, the first college chartered in the sovereign United States of America, where she graduated cum laude and with Honors.
Rebecca resides in the Nutmeg State with her husband and their four daughters. She loves to spend time with her family, garden, play tennis and run.
Coronavirus, or COVID-19, is having an unprecedented impact on global trade, supply chains and financial markets in comparison to previous pandemics. Since January, when the coronavirus was first reported, there has been a significant shift in executive outlooks – from one of uncertainty around the potential financial impact in the early part of the earnings cycle, to companies providing a revenue impact to the first quarter or first half of 2020 to factor in known and unknown affects. Now some companies, such as Apple, are pre-announcing they will be unable to meet guidance previously disclosed just weeks prior.
By the end of February, more than 600 companies globally were mentioning the coronavirus on earnings calls. As investors listened to executives outlining the potential impact, which grew increasingly more serious, and media reports continued to stoke fears – reporting on the alarming and accelerating rate of cases and fatalities globally – the Dow and S&P 500 experienced their largest weekly percentage losses since the Financial Crisis. On March 9, following an oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia, the ensuing sell-off was so significant that it triggered a circuit breaker and resulted in the Dow seeing its worst day since 2008.
The outbreak of COVID-19 and ensuing events are directly impacting supply chains and global demand for products and services across a wide spectrum of companies. However, it is unclear at this point what the additional indirect effects may be on the global and domestic economy as the year unfolds.
In situations like these, where near-term unpredictability and uncertainly are prevalent, organizations must remain fluid in their communication with stakeholders – employees, customers, partners and shareholders – and strive to be appropriately transparent.
Underpinning each of these elements is a focus on providing insight-driven and credible information that supports investor understanding of a company’s decision-making process during these uncertain times.
It is unclear when the situation will truly be over, but the only thing we can be certain of now is that it’s not over yet. Today, with ~110,000 COVID-19 cases reported worldwide, and over 90 countries affected and climbing, it is more critical than ever for companies to effectively and responsibly communicate with shareholders.
By demonstrating a grasp of the situation, in terms of controlling the controllable during times of fear and turbulence, companies can emphasize their enduring long-term value to investors now more than ever.
Since 2007, Corbin Advisors has tracked investor sentiment on a quarterly basis. Access Inside The Buy-Side® and other research on real-time investor sentiment, IR best practices and case studies at corbinadvisors.com.
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