Ginny Wilmerding
Partner
She/Her
Life at FGS Global
Counsels senior executives and boards on critical geopolitical and reputational issues, transactions and financial communications, and media and stakeholder engagement. Leads our Global China Bridge group, is active in tech and private equity sector teams, and helps lead our board advisory efforts.
Life Pre-FGS Global
Partner at Brunswick Group in Asia, helping to grow the business and team over 11 years. Led TMT sector in Asia and developed ESG and governance practice globally.
Life Beyond FGS Global
Often found on long-haul flights, skilled at beating jetlag. Loves hiking, gardening and outdoor pursuits. Passionate about bridging gaps between nations and cultures through education and business.
Ginny Wilmerding is a Partner in FGS Global's New York office, advising on critical issues and crises, transactions and financial communications, and corporate reputation. Areas of focus include geopolitically complex cross-border transactions and regulatory matters, communications around global strategy reviews and spinoffs or splits, board governance advisory, and all kinds of stakeholder engagement including media and investors. Ginny previously spent 19 years working in Asia, and she now leads our cross-practice, cross-region Global China Bridge group. She is active in Tech and Private Equity sector teams, as well as our Board Advisory Group. Prior to joining FGS Global, she was a Partner at Brunswick Group, where she helped drive dramatic growth in the Asia business from 2010 to 2020. Other corporate experience includes business development roles for Hutchison Whampoa and Lucent Technologies and heading corporate affairs for American PE-backed Internet services companies.
Notable past engagements include cross-border transaction and critical issues advice to Lenovo, Syngenta, SHEIN, numerous PE/VC firms, multinationals including H&M and UPS; IPO and capital raising mandates including Alibaba Group’s $25B IPO on NYSE and Ant Group’s $10B private placement; multiple M&A transactions for Bain Capital; and counsel to clients in sensitive industries including semiconductors and AI.
Ginny is an independent director on the board of Techtronic Industries (SEHK.0669). She was a Board Trustee of Princeton in Asia for 24 years. In 2022, Ms Wilmerding earned the CFA Institute Certificate in ESG Investing and in 2021, she earned the Financial Times Level 7 Non-Executive Director Diploma. She is a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and the U.S. China Business Council. Ms Wilmerding published a business advice book for women in 2006 (John Wiley & Sons).
Ginny holds a BA in East Asian Studies from Princeton University and speaks and reads Chinese.
