James Samford, a veteran of Citigroup and Merrill Lynch, has joined The Blueshirt Group financial communications shop.
He served as Citi’s senior equity research analyst, covering the business services and education sectors.
At Merrill, Samford was part of its Internet practice group.
Earlier, He was doing management consultant work at KPMG.
Blueshirt, a provider of initial public offering advisory services, IR, financial media relations and crisis management, is based in San Francisco with an office in New York. It is owned by Next Fifteen.
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