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The communications leaders who made a big impact in 2026, as nominated by their peers
15Lulu Cheng Meservey
Founder & CEO of Rostra; Shopify board member
13Gaby Goldberg
Partner, a16z New Media
9Jesse Dwyer
Chief Communications Officer at Perplexity
Angharad Knill
Communications at ElevenLabs
9Michelle Wu
Storytelling at fal
9Sasha de Marigny
Chief Brand and Communications Officer at Anthropic
9Katie Kirsch
Partner at a16z building programs, products, and communities for the startup ecosystem
8Reem Ateyeh
Product Communications at Anthropic
8Gabriel Stricker
Advisor to the Cancer Research Institute
Lindsey Held Bolton
Vice President of Communications at OpenAI
8Drew Herdener
SVP, Communications & Corporate Responsibility at Amazon
Carolyn Guss
Chief Communications Officer at AMD
8Kelly Sims
Partner at Thrive Capital
8Alex Danco
Editor-at-Large at a16z; writer and former Shopify product leader.
8Senka Hadzimuratovic
Head of Communications at Lovable
7Anna Soellner
Communications and public-affairs strategist
7Lindsay McCallum Rémy
Communications at OpenAI
Becky Sosnov
Head of Corporate Affairs at Reflection AI
6Katie Chiou
Communications & Editorial at Modal
6Jill Hazelbaker
President and Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at Uber
Audrey Herblin-Stoop
SVP of Global Public Affairs, Communication and Marketing at Mistral AI
6Allison Braley
Partner & Head of Marketing at Bain Capital Ventures
6Brent Liang
Co-founder and CEO of MTS
6Caryn Marooney
General Partner at Coatue Management
6Rachael Horwitz
SVP, Global Communications & Public Affairs at Airwallex
5Frank X. Shaw
Chief Communications Officer at Microsoft
5Andy Stone
Vice President of Communications at Meta
Liz Bourgeois
Head of Policy Communications at OpenAI
Rachel Whetstone
Communications Lead at Sierra
5Mylene Mangalindan
VP of Corporate Communications at NVIDIA
5Hector
Head of Content at Wispr Flow
5Cristin Culver
Founder & Principal at Common Thread Communications
5Erik Torenberg
General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
5Tamara Winter
Commissioning Editor at Stripe Press
4Shannon Prior
VP & Head of Global Communications at Anduril
4Sophia Dew
Host at MTS
4Amelia Salyers
Storytelling at Notion
4Hannah Wong
Communications executive and former OpenAI CCO
4Michelle Lazzar
Marketing and communications partner at a16z, focused on AI infrastructure.
3Dex Hunter-Torricke
Founder & President, Center for Tomorrow
3Theo Jaffee
Co-founder and host at MTS
3Mishti Sharma
Head of Narratives @ Clay | moonlight journalist
2Julia Vinyard
Head of Global Communications at Databricks
2Tom Hollands
New Media and Ecosystem at Andreessen Horowitz
1Freya Petersen
Director of Communications at SpaceXAI
1Lisa Gordon
Head of Global Communications at Palantir
Kristin Huguet Quayle
Vice President, Worldwide Communications at Apple
Martin Bergman
Communications and Content at Braintrust
1Henry Williams
Special projects at OpenAI Strategic Futures
1Elena Burger
Editorial partner at a16z New Media, exploring AI, technology, and internet culture.