A proxy solicitor used to count votes. Sodali & Co’s bet is that the harder job is connecting the vote, the boardroom, the bondholder and the headline before a corporate decision comes apart.
Most shareholder votes look ceremonial - until the arithmetic stops working. Alliance Advisors built a business around that nervous interval between sending the proxy and knowing the result.

A detour before law school became a career spent decoding the machinery behind corporate democracy. Now the Alliance Advisors co-founder wants public companies to know who owns them - and to speak to those owners before the ballots arrive.
For more than 25 years, the Sodali & Co executive has worked where governance becomes arithmetic: the shareholder meeting, the hard-to-reach investor and the vote that still has to be won.