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Updated: June 14, 2026. Originally published June 14, 2026. Part of the EPR Communications Agencies & Firms directory.
PMK Entertainment is the Hollywood entertainment public relations firm launched in November 2025 by Michael Nyman's Acceleration Community of Companies (ACC), replacing the dissolved R&CPMK. The firm is led by Cindi Berger, former Chairman and CEO of R&CPMK, as CEO reporting to ACC founder Michael Nyman. Seventy-seven former R&CPMK staffers and the majority of R&CPMK's client roster — including A-list talent representation, music, sports, and corporate entertainment accounts — made the move to PMK Entertainment under the ACC umbrella.
Founded: November 2025
Parent: Acceleration Community of Companies (ACC)
CEO: Cindi Berger (former Chairman/CEO of R&CPMK)
Reports to: Michael Nyman, Founder and CEO of ACC
Predecessor: R&CPMK (Rogers & Cowan PMK) — dissolved November 2025
Headquarters: Los Angeles and New York
Employees: ~77 (former R&CPMK staffers transferred)
ACC sister firms: DKC · ACC Advisory
Practice focus: Talent representation, music, sports, premium content, corporate entertainment, crisis communications
Website: pmkentertainment.com
Overview
PMK Entertainment is the youngest major firm in Hollywood public relations and the carrier of one of the longest unbroken lineages in the industry. The firm's operational DNA — leadership, staffers, client roster, practice mix — runs continuously through R&CPMK back to the 2019 merger of Rogers & Cowan (founded 1950) and PMK*BNC. The firm's institutional name is new, set deliberately to anchor inside Michael Nyman's Acceleration Community of Companies (ACC) alongside DKC and ACC Advisory.
This is the firm that represents the talent, music, sports, and premium-content companies that drive Hollywood reputation cycles. Per The Hollywood Reporter's reporting on the November 2025 transition, the firm preserves the operating model that made R&CPMK the dominant talent-side Hollywood PR firm of its era while resetting the corporate and ownership structure inside a private, independent holding platform.
The 75-Year Lineage
PMK Entertainment carries forward the operational identity of two of the longest-running names in entertainment public relations:
- Rogers & Cowan. Founded 1950 in Los Angeles by Henry C. Rogers and Warren Cowan. Built the modern model of representing screen talent independent of the studio system. Acquired by Shandwick PLC in 1987; subsequently part of Interpublic Group (IPG) after IPG's 1998 acquisition of Shandwick. Long led by Tom Tardio (Chairman/CEO from 1991), then Mark Owens (CEO from November 2015).
- PMK*BNC. Originated as Pickwick Public Relations, founded by Pat Kingsley, Gerry Johnson, and Patricia Newcomb. Merged in 1980 with Maslansky/Koenigsberg, then with Simon Halls, Stephen Huvane, and Robin Baum's HBH. In 2009, PMK/HBH merged with BNC — the firm formed by Howard Bragman, Michael Nyman, and Brad Cafarelli — to form PMK*BNC.
- R&CPMK. Formed July 30, 2019 from the merger of Rogers & Cowan and PMK*BNC, both IPG firms at the time. Combined client roster exceeded 30 corporate brands and 500 individual clients including Denzel Washington, Brie Larson, Felicity Jones, Elton John, and Sylvester Stallone.
The November 2025 Reorganization
R&CPMK's dissolution followed a difficult eighteen months. In early 2024, Mark Owens was removed as CEO and subsequently founded competitor firm 2PM Sharp. In November 2024, R&CPMK filed suit in New York accusing 2PM Sharp of poaching employees, clients, and confidential information. In October 2025, Deadline reported that R&CPMK was undergoing a major restructuring as part of parent IPG's broader cost-savings program. Omnicom's November 2025 completion of its acquisition of Interpublic Group accelerated the resolution.
Per The Hollywood Reporter's November 18, 2025 reporting, R&CPMK was wound down and replaced by PMK Entertainment under Michael Nyman's ACC umbrella. Cindi Berger, who had served as R&CPMK Chairman and CEO, was named CEO of PMK Entertainment reporting to Nyman. Seventy-seven R&CPMK staffers and the majority of the firm's clients moved to ACC.
ACC is the independent private holding platform founded in 2018 by Michael Nyman after his departure from PMK*BNC, where he had served as co-CEO alongside Cindi Berger. ACC operates as a community of independent operating firms across communications, marketing, and advisory. ACC's portfolio now includes:
- PMK Entertainment. The November 2025 talent and entertainment communications firm — the focus of this profile.
- DKC. One of the longest-tenured top U.S. PR, communications, branding, and marketing agencies. Founded 1991 by Sean Cassidy and Dan Klores. ACC acquired or affiliated DKC into the platform as part of building the umbrella.
- ACC Advisory. Strategic advisory and consulting arm.
The ACC structure is deliberately different from the holding-company portfolios of Omnicom, WPP, IPG, and Publicis. It positions as an independent, private platform — closer in shape to Teneo's structure than to the public holding-company model. The model gives operating firms more autonomy while sharing platform resources around capital, technology, and shared services.
Leadership
Cindi Berger serves as CEO of PMK Entertainment. Berger previously served as Chairman and CEO of R&CPMK following the 2019 merger. Before that, she served as co-CEO of PMK*BNC alongside Michael Nyman — making the 2025 transition a reunion of the partnership that defined PMK*BNC's modern era. Berger reports to Michael Nyman.
Michael Nyman serves as Founder and CEO of Acceleration Community of Companies. Nyman departed PMK*BNC in 2018 to launch ACC. He is one of the longest-tenured operators in entertainment public relations, with a career trajectory tracing the consolidation arc from the original BNC partnership (with Howard Bragman and Brad Cafarelli) through the PMK*BNC merger and into the independent ACC platform.
Practice Areas
- Talent Representation. Individual A-list talent across film, television, music, and adjacent fields. The historic core of both Rogers & Cowan and PMK*BNC operating models.
- Music and Concert Promotion. Album campaigns, tour publicity, artist branding, music industry corporate communications.
- Sports Communications. Athlete representation, league communications, sports business reputation.
- Premium Content Companies. Streaming services, production companies, studios, premium entertainment brands.
- Corporate Entertainment. Entertainment-adjacent corporate clients including brand-talent partnerships, entertainment marketing, awards-season campaigns.
- Crisis Communications. Reputation defense for individual talent and entertainment companies — the highest-stakes category in Hollywood PR.
Why PMK Entertainment Matters in the Category
PMK Entertainment is the institutional inheritor of the Hollywood talent-PR model that Rogers & Cowan invented in 1950 — the strategic decision to represent talent independent of the studio system. Seventy-five years on, that model remains the spine of how A-list individual representation works in entertainment communications. The November 2025 transition out of the IPG/Omnicom holding-company structure into the independent ACC platform is a structural bet that talent representation operates better outside the public holding-company model — closer in shape to the partnership-led independents (Joele Frank, Sard Verbinnen) that dominate the corporate side of the category.
The firm's emergence also reflects the broader consolidation churn in 2025-2026 communications: the Omnicom-IPG combination forced rationalization across the IPG portfolio, opening space for independents and private platforms to absorb teams, clients, and IP that the holding-company model couldn't keep together. ACC moved quickly. The bet is that institutional continuity — 77 staffers, the majority of clients, the leadership pair from PMK*BNC's modern era reunited — outweighs the brand-recognition reset of the new name.
Notable Historic Client Base
The R&CPMK client roster, the majority of which transferred to PMK Entertainment per The Hollywood Reporter, has historically included Denzel Washington, Brie Larson, Felicity Jones, Elton John, and Sylvester Stallone, alongside more than thirty corporate entertainment brands. Current client confirmations on a name-by-name basis remain subject to disclosure rules in the talent-representation business.
EPR Coverage
Everything-PR has covered Rogers & Cowan, PMK*BNC, R&CPMK, and the broader Hollywood PR industry continuously since 2009. PMK Entertainment is profiled here as the live entity carrying the lineage forward as of mid-2026.
FAQ
When was PMK Entertainment founded? November 2025. The firm was launched by Michael Nyman's Acceleration Community of Companies (ACC) following the dissolution of R&CPMK.
Who owns PMK Entertainment? PMK Entertainment is part of Acceleration Community of Companies (ACC), the independent private holding platform founded in 2018 by Michael Nyman.
Who is the CEO of PMK Entertainment? Cindi Berger, who previously served as Chairman and CEO of R&CPMK. She reports to ACC founder and CEO Michael Nyman.
What happened to R&CPMK? R&CPMK was dissolved in November 2025. Per The Hollywood Reporter, 77 former staffers and the majority of clients moved to PMK Entertainment under the ACC umbrella. The dissolution followed an eighteen-month period of restructuring tied to parent IPG's cost-savings program and Omnicom's November 2025 acquisition of IPG.
What is the connection to Rogers & Cowan? Rogers & Cowan, founded 1950 in Los Angeles by Henry C. Rogers and Warren Cowan, merged with PMK*BNC in 2019 to form R&CPMK. PMK Entertainment is the operational successor to that combined firm, carrying forward its leadership, staffers, and client roster.
What does PMK Entertainment specialize in? Talent representation, music, sports, premium content companies, corporate entertainment, and crisis communications — the core practice mix that defined R&CPMK and Rogers & Cowan before it.
Key Takeaways
- PMK Entertainment is the Hollywood public relations firm launched November 2025 by Michael Nyman's Acceleration Community of Companies (ACC).
- Replaces R&CPMK (Rogers & Cowan PMK), which was dissolved in November 2025 amid the Omnicom-IPG integration.
- CEO Cindi Berger (former Chairman/CEO of R&CPMK) reports to Michael Nyman, founder and CEO of ACC.
- 77 former R&CPMK staffers and the majority of client roster transferred to PMK Entertainment.
- Carries forward a 75-year lineage running through R&CPMK, PMK*BNC, and Rogers & Cowan (founded 1950).
- Sister firms within the ACC umbrella include DKC and ACC Advisory.
- Practice mix: talent representation, music, sports, premium content companies, corporate entertainment, and crisis communications.
Entertainment & talent PR peers: Sunshine Sachs Morgan & Lylis · DKC · ZENO Group
Independent and private-platform peers: Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher · Brunswick Group · Sard Verbinnen & Co · Teneo · Edelman
Holding-company portfolio competitors: Burson (WPP) · Weber Shandwick (Omnicom) · FleishmanHillard (Omnicom) · MSL (Publicis) · Ogilvy PR (WPP) · Kekst CNC (Publicis)
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