The Company
Rosengard & Associates is an advisory, consulting, and M&A firm based in the New York Metropolitan area. Its principal, Andrew B. Rosengard has spent almost thirty years in the media, cable television, telecommunications, entertainment, and sports industries. His experience includes four years at CBS, Inc. and 18 years at Cablevision Systems Corporation prior to forming the firm in 2004.
The firm provides advisory services to institutional investors, focusing on cable television, cable television networks, broadcast television and radio, direct broadcast satellite, telecommunications, satellite radio, and sports and venue industries. It has several recurring hedge fund clients, including a multi-year relationship with a $20 billion activist hedge fund with significant investments in media and cable. The firm has consulted for dozens of other institutional investors directly and via its relationships with the Gerson Lehrman Group, Vista Research and the Coleman Research Group.
Rosengard & Associates also provides consulting services, including support for startups. It specializes in the development of business plans and investor presentations: its plans have helped to raise money, secure and defer loans. It has expertise in strategy development and business development support, making extensive use of the depth and breadth of our CEO's experience and industry contacts. The firm has provided short term executive staffing services, including acting CFO and senior Finance staffing; it provides M&A and fundraising direction, support and staffing, and due diligence services. It also excels in developing budgeting and planning processes, and other financial controls, recently helping to write and develop the financial policies and procedures and many of the charters and governance documents for a startup.
Our CEO advises CEO's and Boards of Directors on business strategy and on staffing. In February of 2010, Mr.Rosengard joined the Board of Directors of NeoMagic Corporation and serves as Chairman of its Audit Committee and as a member of its Compensation Committee. In November, 2010 he was elected to the Board of Directors of our client, CPX Interactive, where he had been on the Advisory Board and served as a consultant.
Mr. Rosengard works in conjunction with several media analysts, investment bankers, CEO's, private equity players, hedge fund managers, and operating managers in the industries that the firm covers. Mr. Rosengard's experience and these contacts provide a reservoir of information and experience that make the firm sought after in the media, cable and telecommunications space.