A founding member of Joele Frank and president since August 2013, Matthew Sherman has more than 25 years of experience providing strategic corporate, financial, and crisis communications counsel to boards of directors and executive leadership of public corporations and private equity firms. His areas of expertise include shareholder activism, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, investor relations, and financial public relations.

In December 2020, Sherman was recognized as a Top 10 Power Player by The Observer in its PR Power 50 List. He received The M&A Advisor’s 40 Under 40 Recognition Award in 2012 and was named to PR Week’s inaugural 40 Under 40 list in 2007. Sherman previously was a vice president in the M&A and crisis communications practice at Abernathy MacGregor Frank. He serves on the Board of Trustees of The Montclair Kimberley Academy in Montclair, NJ. He received an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA in International Relations and a BA in Communications from the University of Pennsylvania.