A businessman from the United States, Richard Winston Edelman was born on June 15, 1954. The son of Ruth Ann and Daniel Edelman, the founder of the public relations firm Edelman, Edelman was born on June 15, 1954, into a Jewish household.

Edelman received his education at Phillips Exeter Academy. He wed Rosalind Anne Walrath in a Jewish ceremony at the Harvard Club of New York on May 18, 1986. When they got married, his wife was a Vice President at the financial firm Keefe, Bruyette & Woods and the daughter of the JWT advertising agency’s former creative director. Margot, Tory, and Amanda are his three daughters.

Edelman had a successful operation after receiving a prostate cancer diagnosis in 2008.
As CEOs at Edelman, his two brothers John and Renee make the company the biggest privately owned family-run PR agency in the world. Margot and Tory, his daughters, also work for his company.

What does Richard Edelman do for a living?

Richard Edelman is the president and chief executive (CEO) of the global communications firm Edelman as well as the chairman of Daniel J. Edelman Holdings.