Carol gershon kekst biography
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Gershon Kekst was born and raised in Salem, Massachusetts, and founded the public relations firm Kekst & Company, a corporate and financial.!
Obituary: Gershon Kekst, Pioneer In Financial, M&A Communications
NEW YORK—Gershon Kekst left Ruder Finn to launch Kekst and Company in 1970, and when he told the story of how his new firm came to be a pioneer in the financial communications space—and the high-stakes mergers and acquisitions arena in particular—he like to claim it was an accident, based on the fact that his first clients were in the financial arena.
But Kekst was surely destined to deliver public relations advice in the C-suite.
The combination of calm, wisdom and rock-solid integrity that informed his counsel made him a huge asset in any crisis, and his ability to hold his own alongside bankers and merchant bankers meant he was never out of place in the boardroom or the CEO’s office.
Kekst, founder and honorary chair of Kekst and Company and a leading figure in the public relations industry for more than 50 years, died last week after a lengthy illness.
He was 82.
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