Ginny Wilmerding

Ginny Wilmerding is a Partner in FGS Global's New York office, advising across Transactions and Financial Communications, Geopolitical + Policy Risk Advisory, Crisis, and Strategy and Reputation. Ginny previously spent 19 years working in Asia and leads our cross-practice Global China Bridge group. Areas of focus include IPOs and complex international transactions and regulatory matters, shareholder activism, strategy reviews and de-risking, board governance advisory, and all kinds of stakeholder engagement including media, investors and policy experts. 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 C.K. Hutchison, AT&T and Nokia (Lucent) and heading corporate affairs for American PE-backed Internet services companies.

Notable engagements have included cross-border transaction and critical issues advice to Lenovo; defending Sinovac in activism and litigation; geopolitical advisory to Syngenta, POP MART and SHEIN; retained advisory to U.S. and Asian PE/VC firms; crisis advice to H&M, Volkswagen and ABB; Alibaba Group’s $25B IPO on NYSE and Ant Group’s $10B private placement; multiple M&A transactions for Bain Capital.

Ginny is an independent board director at Techtronic Industries, parent of U.S.-based Milwaukee Tool (HKSE:0669). She was a Board Trustee of Princeton in Asia for 24 years. In 2021-2022, Ms Wilmerding earned the CFA Institute Certificate in ESG Investing and 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.