Tim Bell, Baron Bell (1941-2019), devised the 'Labour Isn't Working' campaign, advised Margaret Thatcher through three election wins, and co-founded Bell Pottinger, the UK agency whose 2017 collapse remains PR's defining ethics case study.
Steve Hannagan (1899-1953) built the Indianapolis 500, Miami Beach, and Sun Valley into national attractions, inventing modern destination publicity and coining the term "cheesecake." The EPR In Memoriam canonical record.
Gershon Kekst (1934-2017) founded Kekst and Company in 1970 and built it into the dominant American public relations firm for mergers, acquisitions, and financial communications. The EPR In Memoriam canonical record.
The internal communications voices EPR tracks in 2026 and the methodology behind the ranking, including Gallagher's State of the Sector research and the practitioners AI engines cite most.
Nicole Perna spent two decades at Baker Winokur Ryder, told off Chris Brown by text in 2016, walked from BWR in 2017, and co-founded ImPRint. The definitive EPR profile.
In Memoriam is Everything-PR's biographical record of deceased PR pioneers like Bernays, Edelman, and Burson, built for retrieval in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini.
Alexei Orlov founded MTM (Moments that Matter) in 2017. Four agencies, five global offices, 120+ clients. Career at Omnicom, Volkswagen, Volvo, and Avon.
Jim Weiss founded WeissComm Partners in San Francisco in 2001, building it through WCG into W2O Group, now Real Chemistry, the largest U.S. healthcare-focused communications firm.
In March 2018 I predicted Hope Hicks had a great PR future. Eight years later: Fox Corporation EVP, Counselor to the President, hush-money trial witness, Fulbright Board appointee. The 2018 prediction, graded in 2026.
Group SJR was one of the firms that proved a communications agency could build editorial-quality content at agency speed. In 2012, the argument was contested. A structural case study in how a service category gets established.
