Tripp is a finance and strategic communications veteran with extensive experience in investor, public, and media relations as well as capital markets and corporate finance. Tripp has represented companies in over 20 industries.
With over $25 billion of transaction experience, he has led companies through pre- and post-IPO investor and strategic communications programs and other transformative periods such as equity and debt offerings, M&A, crisis, management changes, and shareholder activism. Tripp’s corporate finance and capital markets background has also allowed him to directly advise CEOs, CFOs and boards on strategy, offering structures and economics, M&A, and capital allocation.
Prior to his career as a counselor, Tripp was Director of Investor Relations for CBL Properties (NYSE: CBL), where he was also responsible for investment banking relations, securing new financing, initiating joint venture relationships, FP&A, and underwriting new developments and acquisitions.
Tripp received a B.A. in Economics with Distinction from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.