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Our extensive corporate communications and capital markets experience provide us with a comprehensive knowledge base
We are an independent Investor Relations and Corporate Communications consulting firm based in Toronto. With more than 60 years of combined experience, we have the strategic insights, skills and network of relationships to build your capital markets profile. Our mandate is to minimize your cost of capital by attaining a market valuation that fully and fairly reflects the fundamentals and growth potential of your company.
Working closely with our clients, we develop a comprehensive understanding of their businesses and unique investor attributes. Then, in conjunction with senior management, we outline a set of specific measurable capital markets objectives. With these objectives in mind, we then develop a customized investor relations program that is put into action.
We take a hands-on approach when it comes to our clients’ business and are actively involved in the day-to-day rollout of each respective investor relations program. Accordingly, we manage our client roster very closely and limit the number of companies we are working with at any given time.
Our Credentials
Managing Partner
Managing Partner
Senior Consultant
Senior Consultant
Broker Relations Specialist
Bay Street Communications
Investor and Public Relations Counsel
121 Richmond Street West, Suite 202
Toronto, ON M5H 2K1
Philip Koven
(647) 496-7858
pkoven@baystreetcommunications.com
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Managing Partner
647.496.7858
pkoven@baystreetcommunications.com
Philip provides strategic investor relations counsel to clients across a wide range of industries.Prior to becoming an investor relations specialist, Philip spent 17 years as a senior sell-side analyst, providing him with a unique knowledge base that he brings to his current practice.
Philip has been a featured lecturer at The Directors College, a comprehensive professional development and certification program for corporate directors (a joint venture of The Conference Board of Canada and the Michael G. DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University); and at the Richard Ivey School of Business’ “Strategic Management of Investor Relations” program.
Managing Partner
647.496.7856
bwigle@baystreetcommunications.com
Bruce is a corporate communications specialist with strong capital markets knowledge. He has more than 15 years of experience working with senior management teams of Canadian and international public companies across a wide range of industries, advising on continuous disclosure best practices, investor relations, financial reporting, and media relations.
In addition to working with clients on ongoing strategic investor relations programs, Bruce has been involved in communications mandates for several high profile M&A, IPO and crisis management assignments.
Senior Consultant
647.496.7857
peterkoven@baystreetcommunications.com
Peter Koven brings extensive communications expertise and financial market knowledge to the firm. He has 12 years of experience as a senior business journalist, during which he interviewed hundreds of senior executives across Canada. He has written about everything from multi-billion-dollar IPOs
to micro-cap financings, helping investors understand complex corporate strategies.
His long list of contacts in the analyst and investment banking community add value for clients.
Senior Consultant
647.290.0578
aaustin@baystreetcommunications.com
Allan Austin is a messaging/script writing specialist with more than three decades of experience and more than 120 successful public offerings and special situations. These have raised more than $20 billion in new capital, across a wide range of industries and business structures, including trans-border offerings. Allan’s roadshow messaging is characterizedby energy, clarity and directness, resulting in a compelling investment proposition. He writes for print, spoken word, video and social media.
Broker Relations Specialist
647.521.9261
mkangas@baystreetcommunications.com
Martti Kangas has an extensive history working in the investor and corporate communications sectors. He is skilled in cross-Canada investment community outreach, event management and broker relations. Martti has experience in both the consulting and in-company arenas and holds a Master of Business Administration from the Rotman School of Business.