Kate Thompson

Managing Director, Financial Sponsors at Joele Frank

Discussion leader

Kate is a Managing Director in Joele Frank’s dedicated Financial Sponsors practice, serving clients across strategies and along the AUM spectrum from emerging managers and first-time funds to large, publicly traded alternative asset managers, with a core focus in the middle market. For more than a decade, Kate has advised financial sponsors and their portfolio companies on strategic communications, leveraging her deep understanding of financial markets as a former investment banking analyst to provide thoughtful and timely counsel across fast-moving situations. Clients turn to Kate for tailored PR and IR guidance, as well as tactical support across high stakes matters, including reputation management; transactions; strategy launches and fundraising; and crisis preparedness and response. Kate brings a pragmatic, goal-oriented and results-focused approach to every engagement. She received a BA in Economics from Colgate University.