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Who

Diamond is the head of giant corporate PR firm Weber Shandwick.

Backstory

You can't say Diamond has a boring resume: He sold peanuts at Yankee Stadium as a teenager and assembled Pintos at a Ford plant in New Jersey before earning a law degree and transitioning into politics, working as a communications aide to Brooklyn DA Elizabeth Holtzman in the mid-1980s. He later joined PR firm Sawyer/Miller, then jumped to the larger PR firm BSMG, becoming its chair and CEO in the late 1990s. In 2001, communications giant Interpublic bought BSMG, merged it with the firm Weber Shandwick, and appointed Diamond CEO. Weber is now one of the largest public relations companies with over 80 offices internationally.

Of note

Although Weber Shandwick is a full-service PR firm, it's particularly well known for its crisis management work and for guiding companies and CEOs through choppy waters. It was Weber Shandwick's Dallas office, for example, that received the phone call from American Airlines shortly after the attack on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001—the firm mobilized a team of 75 people to work with the airline to manage the flow of communication and craft the airline's media strategy. More recently, Weber Shandwick was given the unenviable task of sprucing up ExxonMobil's image. Other clients over the years have included Bayer, Chase Manhattan, Shell, Coke, General Mills, Dun & Bradstreet, Northwest Airlines, GM, Microsoft, and IBM.

Board game

Diamond has a seat on the board of the Business for Diplomatic Action, a foreign affairs-minded non-profit. He's also on the board of the Ronald McDonald House of New York (McDonald's is a Weber Shandwick client), along with Randy Falco, among others.

Personal

He and his wife Amy live in Weston, Conn.