Richard Edelman, president and CEO, Edelman

Richard Edelman is the president and CEO of the world's largest independent public relations firm with wholly-owned offices in 53 cities and more than 3,600 employees worldwide. Edelman was most recently named "Top-Ranked PR Firm of the Decade" and one of the "2010 Best Places to Work in Marketing and Media" by Advertising Age, "2009 Agency of the Year" by PRWeek, "'09 Agency of the Year" by Adweek, and "Agency of the Decade" and "2009 Best Large Agency to Work For" by The Holmes Report. Edelman has been a leader in public relations since it was founded in 1952. Richard's blog, 6 A.M., which launched in September 2004, receives more than 2,000 visitors a day.