Michael J. Gross, Partner and President of Robinson Lerer & Montgomery, has extensive experience in managing corporate and financial public relations programs, as well as crisis situations, for a broad range of corporate and institutional clients. Mr. Gross's experience extends across a wide spectrum of industries ranging from financial services, media, technology, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, and retailing to basic industries such as oil, chemicals, precious metals, and steel, as well as non-profit corporations.

Mr. Gross has developed and implemented communications strategies for a number of complex financial transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, proxy fights, IPOs, corporate restructurings, and bankruptcies, as well as crises, including environmental problems, anti-trust and patent litigation, labor disputes, and product recalls.  His experience also extends to CEO positioning, advocacy advertising, consumer brand marketing, strategic philanthropy, and cause-related marketing.

Prior to joining Robinson Lerer & Montgomery in 1987, he was a Managing Director of Adams & Reinhart specializing in investor relations, mergers and acquisitions, and special situations. From 1980 to 1987, he worked at Mobil Corporation, where he handled a variety of assignments in public relations, investor relations, and finance. Before joining Mobil he was an advertising account executive with Doyle Dane Bernbach, the managing editor of Fiction magazine, and a professor of English at City College of New York.

Mr. Gross has a B.A. in philosophy from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, an M.A. in creative writing from City College of New York, and an M.B.A. in finance from New York University. In 1973, he was awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship in Creative Writing. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Volunteers of America.