Joanne Kearney, Managing Partner, Smithcom
Joanne has almost two decades of experience in corporate affairs, with a focus on transactional communications, issues and crisis management and reputation-building campaigns. Joanne’s work focuses on the mining and capital markets sectors, with a recent focus on supporting clients through the global pandemic. She has acted as a communications advisor on many of Canada’s largest mergers and acquisitions, shareholder activism mandates, corporate restructurings, operational crises and litigation issues.
Joanne is passionate about enhancing the reputation of Canada’s global mining sector, acting as the senior strategist behind the 2019 – 2022 #ThisIsMining campaign; the 2017-2019 #DisruptMining initiatives; and the 2016 Integra Gold Rush Challenge. Joanne was also a senior member of the team that launched the NEO Exchange, Canada’s second largest stock exchange.
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