Margaret Popper
Partner
She/Her
Life at FGS Global
Co-leader of Financial Institutions Group. Advises on communications strategies for corporate positioning, internal communications, crisis management and preparedness.
Life Pre-FGS Global
Head of Corporate Communications at Kyndryl during its spinoff from IBM. VP of Narrative & Content at IBM. Two decades as a financial journalist including BusinessWeek, Bloomberg and CNBC.
Life Beyond FGS Global
Wildlife watching in Yellowstone National Park, reading books edited by her older daughter, going to comedy clubs to hear her younger daughter's standup, diving into New York City.
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.
Recently she has provided counsel on reputation management and strategy to a range of financial services clients including TD Bank, Deutsche Bank, MidFirst Bank, Rothschild & Co., Fifth Third, and Amalgamated Bank among others. In 2023, she was on site at Signature Bridge Bank and Silicon Valley Bridge Bank to help manage communications until the banks could be sold. She has worked with various mid-sized and smaller banks to manage their reputations in the aftermath of the 2023 crisis.
She returned to FGS Global in 2022 after working in communications at IBM and later its spinoff Kyndryl.
Prior to IBM, Margaret worked at FGS Global on a variety of assignments including executive profile raising and media training for Goldman Sachs, reputation management and profile raising for Atlas Merchant Capital, Trian Partners’ successful effort to gain a board seat at Procter & Gamble, Perella Weinberg Partners’ acquisition of TPG, Owl Rock’s IPO of ORCC, the rollout of the Commonsense Corporate Governance Principles for a coalition of large institutions, 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 CNBC.
She has a BA in English Literature from Yale University and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.