# Alpha IR Group / Alpha Advisory Group

> Alpha IR Group and its parent, Alpha Advisory Group, advise public and private companies on investor relations, corporate communications, crises, transactions, and board engagement. Founded by Chris Hodges in Chicago in 2012, Alpha differentiates itself through senior-led work and an issues-based research method that turns candid conversations with investors and analysts into messaging, engagement, and reputation plans.

- **Founded:** 2012
- **Headquarters:** Chicago, United States
- **Founders:** Chris Hodges (Founder and CEO)
- **Team size:** 11-50 employees on LinkedIn; the supplied dataset estimates 29 employees
- **Products:** Investor Relations Partnerships, Wall Street Perception Studies, Investor and Analyst Day Support, IR Audit and Scorecard, Corporate Communications and Reputation
- **Notable:** Founded on February 1, 2012 and expanded from Chicago into Boston, New York, and Dallas., Reports more than 1,000 partnership clients across its leaders' careers and more than 200 years of collective senior experience., Reports supporting more than 350 Investor Day events and more than 20 such events in an average year.

## Products & services

- **Investor Relations Partnerships** — Ongoing strategic and tactical support built around an IR audit, engagement plan, executive counsel, investor targeting, messaging, materials, and measurement.
- **Wall Street Perception Studies** — Issues-based qualitative and quantitative interviews with investors and analysts, delivered with attributed feedback, analysis, participant profiles, and recommendations.
- **Investor and Analyst Day Support** — Strategy, audience research, message development, presentation coaching, event planning, Q&A preparation, and post-event measurement; Alpha says it supports more than 20 Investor Days in an average year.
- **IR Audit and Scorecard** — A review of messaging, materials, investor perception, Wall Street visibility, targeting, team structure, and peer practices that produces a forward plan.
- **Corporate Communications and Reputation** — Media relations, executive positioning, thought leadership, employee engagement, social strategy, and multi-audience corporate storytelling delivered through Alpha Advisory Group.
- **Crisis and Issues Management** — Preparedness plans, simulations, media training, live-response counsel, stakeholder communication, and post-crisis recovery across operational, cyber, leadership, legal, and activist events.
- **Transactions, IPOs, and Special Situations** — Communications and counsel for IPOs, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, spinoffs, SPACs, executive transitions, activist campaigns, and board engagement.
- **Alpha IR Talent Solutions** — Specialist recruiting and interim staffing for investor-relations roles using Alpha's Wall Street and IR network.
- **Alpha IR Academy** — Training for newer investor-relations professionals within the firm's expanded four-segment platform.

## Achievements

- Founded on February 1, 2012 and expanded from Chicago into Boston, New York, and Dallas.
- Reports more than 1,000 partnership clients across its leaders' careers and more than 200 years of collective senior experience.
- Reports supporting more than 350 Investor Day events and more than 20 such events in an average year.
- Reports completing more than 1,000 perception studies and conducting more than 1,500 investor conversations annually for partnership clients.
- Founder Chris Hodges reports more than 750 client assignments, more than 250 M&A or crisis engagements, more than 200 activist engagements, and more than 175 Investor Days.
- Launched Alpha IR Talent Solutions in 2022 and Alpha Advisory Group in 2023.
- Joe Caminiti was named to NIRI's 2023 Rising Leaders Under 40 program; Jacqueline Marcus received the same recognition in 2019.
- A 2017 company announcement said Alpha's clients represented nearly $100 billion of equity value on North American exchanges.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Published six takeaways from the 2026 NIRI Annual Conference, covering retail investors, activism, AI, tokenization, SEC priorities, and the changing market structure.
- **2026-06** — Published crisis-management lessons for audit committees following an NACD panel led by James McCusker.
- **2026-05** — Shared messaging guidance for rate-sensitive companies and a communications framework for the renewed SPAC market.
- **2025-07** — Launched a redesigned website presenting four integrated business segments and 24 practice areas.
- **2025-01** — Added Elizabeth Castro and James McCusker as senior managing directors to co-lead and expand the corporate communications practice.

## Links

- Website: https://www.alpha-ir.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/alpha-ir
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/alpha_ir_group
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/pages/Alpha-IR-Group/765914750144772

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Last updated: 2026-09-19