
Borshoff: Indianapolis Independent Communications Firm (Still in Business, 2026)
Susan Matthews was named one of Indianapolis Business Journal's 2014 Women of Influence.

Susan Matthews was named one of Indianapolis Business Journal's 2014 Women of Influence.

Cultural Counsel — founded by Adam Abdalla in 2015 — is one of the most-cited specialist PR firms in the global art world. Bronx Museum, Creative Time, NADA, PAMM, UTA Fine Arts. The profile, the discipline, and why arts PR operates on rules that do not generalize from any other category.

In Australia, Belle Gibson is a household name, dominating media coverage.

Bob Parsons, the GoDaddy founder, owns Big YAM — the Scottsdale agency formerly known as The Martz Agency. A canonical history of the firm, its leadership, YAM Worldwide, and what a billionaire-owned captive agency looks like in the AI Communications era.

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.

Sitrick And Company — the Los Angeles-based crisis communications firm founded by Michael Sitrick in 1989. The roster, the methodology, the book that codified it, and the firm's place in the modern crisis market.

The financial services PR firms running the deal sheets behind most of the year's largest M&A, IPO, activist defense, and restructuring transactions. Sard Verbinnen, Joele Frank, ICR, FTI Consulting Strategic Communications, FGS Global, Brunswick, Kekst CNC, Prosek, and the senior bench.

Sard Verbinnen & Co is one of the most influential firms in the U.S. corporate crisis and special situations market. Founded 1992 by George Sard and Paul Verbinnen. Now part of FGS Global, the KKR-majority-owned strategic communications platform.

The leading U.S. Hispanic PR firms in 2026 — Alma DDB, Casanova//McCann, República Havas, Sensis, LERMA/, Grupo Gallegos, Havas Formula, and the working shortlist reaching a $2.6 trillion buying-power segment. Named founders, named clients, named category focus.

Between 2014 and 2024 Kangana Ranaut executed the most extreme brand pivot in modern Bollywood — from three-time National Film Award winner to sitting Member of Parliament for Mandi. The 2015 PR-firm feud was the early signal.