Director - TrailRunner International

Stephanie Reynolds

Stephanie Reynolds is a Director based in TrailRunner’s Truckee office. She advises clients on matters including corporate positioning, brand building, issues and crisis management, executive positioning, restructurings, financial communications, and high-stakes situations, such as SPAC mergers and other M&A transactions. Stephanie works with a wide range of clients, including Fortune 500 companies, professional sports teams, newly public companies, and start-ups.

Before joining TrailRunner, Stephanie played a key role in reputation management, media relations, crisis communications, and emergency preparedness for northern Nevada’s largest healthcare network, Renown Health. Stephanie previously worked as a communications manager for Vail Resorts’ Lake Tahoe region, where she led executive positioning, issues and crisis management, and brand awareness efforts across the company’s North American portfolio. Stephanie began her career in Reno, Nevada at a boutique agency, where she developed and executed award-winning work for clients in a diverse range of industries including travel, consumer packaged goods, healthcare, 501(c)(6) organizations, and municipal government.

Stephanie graduated from the University of Nevada (BA, Journalism, with minors in Communications and Spanish) and studied in Puntarenas, Costa Rica. She enjoys exploring the mountains with her daughter and two dogs.

Carlton Rollins

Carlton Rollins is a Director based in TrailRunner’s New York office. She works with clients across a broad range of industries on matters of corporate communications, executive positioning, media relations, and global communications strategy.

Carlton came to TrailRunner from the Office of the President at Columbia University, where her role involved coordinating all presidential communications. Prior to Columbia, Carlton was the Client Relations and Communications Manager at Art & Science Group, a boutique consulting firm in the education and nonprofit sectors with offices in New York and Baltimore. She worked with college and university leaders to incorporate robust market research into positioning and strategic communications plans. As a student intern, Carlton also worked at Hill Learning Center, an education nonprofit serving K-12 students with learning differences.

A North Carolina native, Carlton graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a BA in Psychology and a minor in Public Relations. She spent a semester in Florence, Italy, flourishing her love of travel and Italian cuisine. She’s also a big UNC-Chapel Hill sports fan and enjoys cooking, reading, and doing yoga to unwind.

Hannah Guenther

Hannah is a Director at TrailRunner International, based in Dubai. Hannah specializes in financial communications, IPOs and M&A and advises clients on corporate positioning, international strategy, crisis preparedness, and response. She moved to the UAE in 2023 to help expand TrailRunner International’s footprint in the region, offering regional clients a global perspective. Hannah joined TrailRunner International as an intern in New York in 2018.

Hannah works with a range of companies, from public companies to startups, in various industries, including space, finance, healthcare, retail, and tech. She is passionate about storytelling and advises clients on narratives that will resonate with different audiences.

Hannah graduated from Villanova University with a Bachelor of Science in communications.

Brendan Lahiff

Brendan Lahiff is a Director at TrailRunner International, focusing on financial communications for global clients in finance, manufacturing, fintech, and other sectors. Brendan brings over 20 years of experience spanning investor relations and financial communications, corporate communications, securities regulation compliance, market surveillance and global custody/corporate actions.

Prior to TrailRunner International, Brendan spent eight years performing the investor relations functions for semiconductor companies, co-managing the investor relations function for SanDisk Corp., a Western Digital Corporation company, and leading the investor relations function for Intersil Corporation, a Renesas Electronics Corporation company. Prior to working with semiconductor companies, Brendan spent eight years at communications agencies including Financial Dynamics, an FTI Consulting firm Inc. company and Lippert / Heilshorn and Associates Inc., servicing a wide variety of clients and market capitalizations across the technology and telecommunications, consumer, healthcare and life sciences, industrial and energy, and financial services industries. Brendan began his career at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., conducting global custody and corporate actions.

Brendan holds degrees from the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania (BS, Finance and Minors in Economics and English) and the University of San Francisco (MBA). He lives in Colorado with his wife Lorinda and daughter Keira, and enjoys spending time outdoors with his family snowboarding, mountain biking, running and hiking.

Lexi Schuchert

Lexi is a Director at TrailRunner, where she works with a diverse group of clients on corporate communications and reputation, media relations, crisis management, influencer engagement, and consumer public relations. Lexi has led projects focusing on executive positioning and building corporate narratives for clients at all stages of growth and has supported companies through successful public listings and international growth strategies, particularly in the US and China. Lexi’s experience covers a broad range of industries and sectors including technology, sports, retail, manufacturing, and more.

Prior to joining TrailRunner, Lexi worked in New York as a Senior Analyst in media relations at PepsiCo, Inc., a global food and beverage leader with a diverse product portfolio that includes iconic brands such as Pepsi-Cola, Frito-Lay, Gatorade, Tropicana, and Quaker. She began her career at PepsiCo on the executive communications team.

Lexi earned a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Iowa, where she studied English, journalism, and mass communications. She is a Board Member of Dallas Cotillion Club, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization for women in Dallas devoted to strengthening the community through active volunteerism. Lexi speaks Spanish, and she enjoys creative writing and being active outdoors with her dog.