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Kaman Corporation has promoted its IR lead, James Coogan, to vice president of investor relations and business development. Coogan joined Kaman Corporation in 2008 and has served as vice president of investor relations since 2017. In his new role, which he started on January 1, he reports to Neal Keating, Kaman Corporation’s president and CEO. Prior to moving into IR at Kaman, Coogan was responsible for external reporting and SEC compliance. Before joining ...

Virtu Financial has appointed Deborah Belevan as its new senior vice president of investor relations and communications.  Belevan takes the reins from Andrew Smith, who has run the IR function since the company’s IPO in 2015. Smith will now focus on product development for the company.  The move sees Belevan, who joined Virtu Financial on November 25, reconnect with Alex Ioffe, who was hired as the company’s chief financial officer in September this yea...

The investor relations profession has emerged at the nexus of corporate investment theses worldwide, with the past decade of competitive business influences being instrumental in elevating the IRO to a pivotal role in positioning public companies with the investment community. During the past decade, the IR profession has been one of the most rapidly evolving executive roles across management ranks around the globe. As corporate management teams have recognized the ...

A light in the dark I recently spoke to Jim Toes, CEO of the Security Traders Association, about how the unprecedented number of issuer letters sent to the SEC about the access-fee pilot last year could be a sign that IR teams are getting more up to speed on market structure issues. He cited the increase in trading activity on dark pools as another issue IR teams need to be aware of. ‘Understanding where your stock is traded, why and b...