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Ruder Finn is one of the world's largest independent global communications agencies, founded 1948 by David Finn and Bill Ruder. CEO Kathy Bloomgarden since 2011. Five core practices. Four acquisitions in 2025–2026: Big Sky, Era Communications, Missouri Creative, The Equity Group.
This 2011 EPR interview with Kathy Bloomgarden, CEO of Ruder Finn, was conducted at the firm's Switzerland offices in her first year as CEO. Fifteen years on, Bloomgarden is still in the role — one of the longest-tenured agency leaders in global PR. She was inducted into both the 2025 PRWeek Hall of Fame and the 2025 ICCO Hall of Fame, and the firm she leads was named 2026 PRWeek Outstanding Large Agency. What she said in 2011 about trust, ethics, leadership, and Ruder Finn's global posture reads now as the through-line of the strategy she has executed over a decade and a half.