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Amanda Duckworth Joins Montgomery Securities As Director of Corporate Communications.


SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 5, 1996--Montgomery Securities today announced the appointment of Amanda Duckworth as Principal and Director of Corporate Communications Corporate communications is the process of facilitating information and knowledge exchanges with internal and key external groups and individuals that have a direct relationship with an enterprise. .

Duckworth assumes her duties today.

Duckworth, 37, comes to Montgomery from Edelman Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most  Worldwide, where she has served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of the San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden  office since 1992. In this capacity, she successfully implemented a specialization program to match the agency's capabilities with the Bay Area's leading industries, including financial services and lifesciences. Duckworth joined Edelman New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 in 1984 from a leading public relations agency in the U.K. She has also practiced law for an Australian law firm.

"We are pleased to have Amanda heading up our Corporate Communications effort to support the firm's continuing expansion," said Thomas W. Weisel, Montgomery's Chairman & CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Her understanding of the interplay among the investment community, the media and the public policy arena ideally suit her to meet Montgomery's communications needs well into the future."

A native of the U.K., Duckworth graduated from the University of Wales Affiliated institutions
  • Cardiff University
Cardiff was once a full member of the University but has now left (though it retains some ties). When Cardiff left, it merged with the University of Wales College of Medicine (which was also a former member).
 with an L.L.B. and from Lancaster Gate College of Law with a Solicitor's Diploma. She currently sits on the Boards of Project Open Hand and Children's Garden and the Northern California Advisory Board of the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Montgomery Securities is one of the Nation's leading investment banks and institutional brokerages specializing in growth companies.

CONTACT: Montgomery Securities

Elizabeth Snowden, 415/627-2747
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