Chris Kittredge
Partner, Head of Boston
Life at FGS Global
Advises management teams and boards on reputation and strategy, develops issues preparedness programs and has extensive experience in leading communications mandates related to M&A, IPOs, crisis, shareholder activism and other special situations.
Life Pre-FGS Global
Started his career in public affairs in Washington, D.C. and graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University with a B.A. in Economics Management and Sociology.
Life Beyond FGS Global
Cherishes family time and vacations by the water. Can be found at concerts, sporting events and in the back yard at his garden.
Chris Kittredge is a Partner in the Boston office. He advises management teams and boards on reputation and strategy, develops issues preparedness programs and has extensive experience in leading communications mandates related to M&A, IPO, crisis, shareholder activism and other special situations.
Recent engagements include advising Alkermes on its successful proxy fight defense against Sarissa Capital Management; a labor union matter at a prominent university; management successions at BioMarin and Alnylam; multiple companies related to financial restatement disclosures; and Alexion on activism from Elliott Management and its sale to Astrazeneca.
Chris has also counseled clients on high-profile engagements, including Klaviyo and Moderna on ground-breaking IPOs; NiSource on a settlement with the DOJ related to explosions in the Merrimack Valley of New England and subsequent sale of Columbia Gas of Massachusetts; multiple New England private schools related to investigations of alleged historic faculty misconduct; and former Goldman Sachs trader Fabrice Tourre in his legal defense against civil securities fraud.
Chris has led corporate positioning support engagements for former Comptroller of the Currency Eugene Ludwig and his firm Promontory Financial Group, Canapi Ventures, Blackstone Life Sciences, the global law firm Linklaters LLP, investment firm The Rohatyn Group and investment bank Leerink Partners, among others.
Chris began his career at The Caraway Group, Inc., a public affairs agency in Washington, D.C. He graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University with a B.A. in Economics Management and Sociology.
