Kekst CNC is the global strategic communications firm formed by the 2019 merger of Kekst and Company (1970, NY) and CNC (2002, Munich). Publicis Groupe-owned since 2008. Co-CEOs Lyndsey Estin (U.S., March 2026) and Richard Campbell (Non-U.S., February 2026). #1 globally in M&A communications.
Chris Burch has spent four decades identifying founders, funding growth, and building consumer brands. From Eagle Eye Apparel and Tory Burch to Burch Creative Capital and NIHI Sumba — the operator profile and the case study in cross-category operating range.
The textbook is two years behind the field. So universities are hiring the operators — senior practitioners brought in as professors of practice to teach AI Communications, GEO, and Citation Share in real time.
Saudi Arabia spends more on U.S. influence operations than any other Gulf state and more than most American allies. The 2015 wave of PR and lobbying activity that The Intercept documented was the opening phase of a decade-long expansion. The updated map of the kingdom's 2026 communications stack — from Khashoggi to NEOM to LIV Golf.
Teneo is the global CEO advisory firm founded in June 2011 by Declan Kelly, Doug Band, and Paul Keary. CVC Capital Partners-majority-owned since 2019; LGT Capital Partners minority since August 2025 ($2.3B valuation). 1,600+ employees across 40+ offices. CEO Paul Keary; Chairwoman Ursula Burns.
UHNW Communications — the discipline of managing reputation for ultra-high-net-worth figures. What it is and isn't. The privacy paradox. The five core disciplines, and what changed in the answer-engine era.
Speyside CR, is by extension a tested and refined corporate communications giant. Co-founders Alistair McLeish and Ian Herbison announced the opening of the company's offices in San Paulo, Brazil. In a conversation with Herbison, Everything PR News gleaned a window into the vision of two of the most successful corporate communicators in the world. These former top executives for MmD (Eastern Europe's most powerful PR entity) are now engaging South America with the same patented approach to corporate business and collaboration.
From the indie print bet of the late 2000s, to the Substack wave of 2017–2024, to the AI citation era now in progress — the journalist-founder model has reinvented itself three times in seventeen years. The asset class keeps changing. The skills do not.
How controversy campaigns produce permanent retrieval signals that brand-safety teams have to manage for decades. The 2009-era assumption that shock advertising decayed into the archive within eighteen months has been replaced by a different equation: the synthesis layer keeps the controversy retrievable indefinitely.
Why is breast cancer less important than a celebrity drug overdose? Could it be that we're too sensitive to something that could possibly affect us? Take a look at some of the female celebrities that have fought breast cancer and beat it.