Deborah K. Pawlowski, IRC

Deborah K. Pawlowski, IRC

2022 SRT Chair; Chairman & CEO/Founder, Kei Advisors LLC

Deborah Pawlowski, IRC, is a proven entrepreneurial business leader with more than thirty years’ experience in investor relations, capital markets, marketing, strategic planning, leadership coaching and management.  Ms. Pawlowski has a demonstrated track record of success with communication deployments of successful strategic shifts, market perception alignments, crisis management, and capital raises. She is committed to excellence in managing market perceptions for organizational change.  With a proven ability to instill a common vision and understanding of strategic direction and opportunities of her client companies, she builds respect and credibility for management with investors and analysts.  Her experience base comes from both the corporate perspective, while leading the investor relations program at National Fuel Gas Company (NFG), a diversified energy company, and American Precision Industries Inc., a diversified manufacturing company, and as a consultant with more than twenty years as founder of Kei Advisors LLC.  Ms. Pawlowski’s breadth of experience and dynamic energy combine to provide counsel to executive management and Boards of Directors in investor relations initiatives and capital markets positioning.

Ms. Pawlowski is an independent leadership consultant as well working with up-and-coming leaders, executive management and Boards of Directors to assess individual personality and skills by using various tools including 360’s, behavioral interviews and Hogan assessments. She aids in the understanding of an individual’s impact on the success of an organization or team, develops plans to drive excellence in their performance and helps in the discovery of how change can unleash their full potential.  Known for strategic foresight, she coaches executives through challenging issues and addresses crisis planning and executive team development with ingenuity.

Ms. Pawlowski is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, where she received her B.S. in General Engineering. She received her M.B.A. from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. She serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Allegany Insurance Group, as a member of the NIRI: The Association of Investor Relations’ Senior Round Table Steering Committee and NIRI’s Investor Relations Charter (IRC) Certification Scheme Committee and is a director for the NIRI Virtual Chapter Board as its Advocacy Ambassador.  Ms. Pawlowski is a former member of the Board of Directors of NIRI and past President of the NIRI Virtual Chapter.  In her spare time, Ms. Pawlowski also serves on the Board of Directors of Combat Wounded Veterans Challenge and leads the Founding Committee of the Western New York Investors Conference.  

 Ms. Pawlowski founded Kei Advisors LLC in July 2000.