Marian Salzman

The Guardian wrote that she "radiates enough energy, one suspects, to power a small town and looks as if she has just stepped off the set of Sex and the City." She has been credited with popularizing pop-culture buzzwords from singleton to metrosexual. She lives and breathes social media, and she knows what's coming next. (Though she's been known to show up for work with her pajamas still on under her clothes to give herself time to get it all done.)

She's Marian Salzman, CEO of Euro RSCG Worldwide PR, North America, and Euro RSCG Life PR. She took over as @erwwpr's president in August 2009, bringing laser-like focus to the agency's social media and grassroots campaigning—a homecoming, as she had previously spent five years as chief strategic officer of Euro RSCG Worldwide. After just 19 months at the helm, Marian was named PRWeek's 2011 PR Professional of the Year. She was also named PR Agency Team Leader for the PR News PR People Awards and finalist for Lifetime Achievement and Service Executive of the Year for the Stevie Awards for Women in Business (all 2010), and is the 2011 Golden Bridge Blogger of the Year, Lifetime Achievement winner, and part of its Management Team of the Year (with two ERWW colleagues), plus PR News' 2011 Agency
PR Professional of the Year. Marian was also honored as Agency Professional of the Year (Bronze) for the Bulldog Stars of PR in 2011, so she literally took top slot in all the major competitions around agency leadership.

In addition, her four-part series on the brain that she wrote for the Huffington Post won a 2011 Bronze SABRE (Superior Achievement in Branding and Reputation) award for Speech or Bylined Article and was given honorable mention in the PR News Platinum PR Awards' Blog category; her blogging in general won her a silver Bulldog Stars of PR for PR Blogger of the Year and was named the PR News Digital PR's Best Blog.

In April 2011, Marian was named CEO of @erwwpr. Under her tenure, the company has added an extraordinary number of new clients, from Chiquita to Starwood, plus global AOR status for Coty Inc. and U.S. AOR for Ford Motor Co.'s Warriors in Pink and GSK's ADVAIR. Among her most awarded campaigns are Yéle Haiti and Wyclef Jean for President of Haiti, Campaign Money Watch (#theywinulose) for Common Cause, and The French Will Never Forget, which was a simultaneous day of memory on 9/11/11. She brought together Massachusetts General Hospital and the Re