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Adam Townsend ā Executive Vice President of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations at CBS Corporation
Executive Bio
Mr. Adam Townsend has been an Executive Vice President of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations at CBS Corporation since January 2016. Mr. Townsend oversees CBS's daily outreach to the investment community as well as additional responsibilities within CBS's finance organization, including the oversight of CBS's treasury function. He served as an Executive Vice President of Investor Relations at CBS Corporation from July 2008 to January 2016. Prior to joining CBS in July 2008 as Executive Vice President of Investor Relations, Mr. Townsend served as Managing Director of Investor Relations and Corporate Strategy for E*Trade Financial Corporation, which included working with its CEO on identifying global expansion opportunities, providing quarterly presentations to its board of directors on the company's competitive positioning, public/investor perception, stock valuation and analyst research coverage. He oversaw E-Trade's communications strategies through more than $5 billion in transactions over four years. Mr. Townsend was an Equity Research Analyst for JP Morgan Securities Financial Institutions Group and was responsible for primary research coverage of publicly traded companies in the online trading and investing technology sector, performed company valuation analysis, authored equity research reports and built financial models to forecast financial performance of companies. Prior to JP Morgan, he held various positions at Franklin Templeton Investments in the areas of equity research, marketing research and broker service operations. Mr. Townsend has been a Member of Advisory Board at Stockr, Inc. since September 2012. He is a panel member and keynote speaker at various National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) programs. He is a Member of the Investor Relations Association (IRA) where he served as one the Executive Board from 2009 to 2013 and as Treasurer from 2010 to 2013. He has received professional recognition for excellence in investor relations from various industry publications. He has been voted #1 Media Investor Relations Officer by sellside analysts in Institutional Investors Magazine's Annual All-American Executive Team survey for six consecutive years (from 2012 to 2017), and #1 by the buyside in 2012 and 2014. He also received IR Magazine's 2004 award for Most Improved IR Program across all industries. Mr. Townsend graduated in 1995 with Bachelors of Science Degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Executive Team Culture Ratings from CBS Corporation Employees
BOTTOM
45%
CBS Corporation's Executive Team scores in the Bottom 45%
of similar sized companies on Comparably
of similar sized companies on Comparably
CBS Corporation's Executive Team at a Glance
Based on 39 ratings, CBS Corporation's employees are less satisfied with their Executive Team and give them a āCā or 63/100. On average, Men provided higher ratings for their Executive Team compared to Women. Also, the Marketing department thinks more highly of the Executive Team relative to the All Industries department.
CBS Corporation's Executive Team ranks in the Bottom 35% of other companies in New York and Bottom 45% of other companies on Comparably that also have 1,001-5,000 Employees.
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