Honoree

Andy Polansky

Andy Polansky has more than three decades of client service, mentoring, P&L and M&A experience, which he developed while serving in leadership roles for some of the world's most admired global strategic communications and marketing services consultancies. Polansky is widely recognized as one of the leaders of the global public relations industry, having served as executive chairman of Weber Shandwick until June 2022 after serving as its CEO from 2012-2019.

Earlier in his tenure he played a key role in managing the integration of the PR industry's largest merger and in developing innovative practice areas to generate new revenue streams. Polansky also served as chairman and chief executive officer of IPG DXTRA.