DEY.’s founder and CEO is among this year’s honorees
Rimjhim Dey, founder and CEO of DEY., has been named to The PR Net’s Marcomms’ Most Influential 2026 list, an annual program recognizing leaders in marketing and communications across brands, agencies and the businesses they build.
Rimjhim Dey, founder and CEO of DEY., has been named to The PR Net’s Marcomms’ Most Influential 2026 list, announced on November 10, 2026. The annual program recognizes leaders in marketing and communications across brands, agencies and the businesses they build.
Honorees are selected by an independent committee of senior brand and agency leaders, who score each application on leadership, innovation and industry impact. This year’s committee included communications and marketing leaders from Sephora, Marriott International, Weber Shandwick, Hachette Book Group and New York City Tourism + Conventions, among others. The 2026 honorees will be celebrated in New York on November 17.
Dey founded DEY. more than twenty years ago on the premise that ideas that matter deserve influence, not just publicity. She sets strategy across the firm’s work, leads its senior client relationships and new business, and still makes many of the introductions to editors, columnists and partner institutions herself. The firm’s institutional practice advises foundations, universities, research organizations and companies working on AI, global health, climate, philanthropy and development, science and the economy, and its literary practice represents authors of major nonfiction.
Dey was named to Inc.’s 2025 Female Founders 500 and to PRNEWS’ Top Women in PR, in the Business Entrepreneurs category, in 2024. She serves on the boards of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and A Public Space and is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her full bio is on DEY.’s leadership page.
The full Marcomms’ Most Influential 2026 list is available on The PR Net’s website.
About DEY. DEY. Ideas + Influence is a global communications and advisory firm working with organizations, thinkers and authors of major nonfiction. More at DEY. News + Insights.
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