William Ruder co-founded Ruder Finn in 1948 with David Finn, served as Assistant Secretary of Commerce under President John F. Kennedy from 1961 to 1963, and helped build one of the largest independent public relations firms in the world.
Stan Steinreich on 22 years of independence, the High Point office, running Tel Aviv and Dubai post-Oct 7, the first 24 hours of a crisis, and what AI Communications changes for corporate comms.
Daniel J. Edelman (1920–2013) founded Edelman PR in Chicago on October 1, 1952 and built it into the world's largest independent public relations firm. He refused every acquisition offer from the holding companies across three decades and kept the firm in family hands. The EPR In Memoriam canonical record.
