Margaret Popper

Margaret Popper is an experienced communications strategist with a broad range of expertise in finance, technology, media relations, internal communications, special situations, crisis communications, digital strategy and content production, media training and corporate narrative development. 

She returns to FGS Global after two years working as an in-house communications executive in the tech sector. Most recently, she was a VP and Head of Corporate Communications and Central Services at Kyndryl, a 90,000 person spin-off of IBM’s technology services division, where she managed media relations and content production and worked with the C-suite to create and execute Kyndryl’s IPO communications strategy. Before joining Kyndryl, she was VP of Narrative and Content at IBM, where she ran a team of 15 and helped shape the corporate narrative around IBM’s hybrid cloud and AI strategy. 

Prior to IBM, Margaret worked at predecessor firm Sard Verbinnen & Co. on a variety of assignments including Trian Partners’ successful effort to put Nelson Peltz on the board of P&G, Perella Weinberg Partners’ acquisition of TPG, Owl Rock’s IPO of ORCC, the rollout of the Commonsense Corporate Governance Principles by a group of 12 institutions organized by Jamie Dimon and Warren Buffett, and a variety of crisis situations for corporations, colleges and schools. 

She came to FGS Global after 20+ years as a financial journalist at BusinessWeek, Bloomberg, and most recently, CNBC. 

She began her career in corporate finance on Wall Street. She has a BA in English Literature from Yale University and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.