Clare Thomas Maher

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About Clare Thomas Maher

For over 20 years, Clare has advised CEOs, their boards and companies on critical decisions, high-stakes issues and profile-building opportunities. Clare is a strategist, advising organizations and brands who define the high water mark for the industries and economies they influence, and she has led top trade associations to achieve legislative successes through targeted perception campaigns. Clare approaches the articulation of strategy through the lens of well-framed, strongly formed arguments with the power to compel stakeholders, shape environments and create advantage. During the course of her career, Clare has developed corporate narratives to shift public opinion, clarify the investor value proposition and evolve employee culture; she has helped mitigate risk and restore reputations of companies under fire and has defined CEO level messaging response during mass crisis events. Clare has worked across industries and issues including consumer health and safety, technology and innovation, gaming and entertainment, travel and hospitality, oil and natural gas, food manufacturing, transportation infrastructure, real estate development, telecommunications, retail, intellectual property, employee culture, investor relations, activist investor scenarios, board management and brand synergy. Clare holds her MBA from the University of California, Irvine’s executive MBA program and a BA in English/Journalism from the State University of New York, Fredonia.