Shev Rush

Shev Rush began his communications career in high school when his interviews with Willem Dafoe, Oliver Stone and Cameron Crowe for his school newspaper were republished by South Carolina’s largest newspaper, The State. Moving to San Francisco in the early ’90s, Shev’s career spanned financial-services marketing and then as a marketing communications executive at technology companies during the original dot-com boom. Having always worked on the client side of the marketing/PR agency equation, he sought an opportunity to learn the agency side, becoming managing director at tech PR firm, Media First Public Relations, in 2000.

In 2005, Shev founded SRPR. Since then, the agency was named one of the Top 5 small PR agencies in the United States in a survey of 800 journalists, and Shev himself was named one of the Top 25 PR Practitioners in the country.

Shev is an accomplished writer who has ghost-written articles on behalf of clients which have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Harvard Business Review, The Huffington Post, TIME, and many other top-tier media outlets.

Shev’s work has led to projects with global companies such as Google, Twitter, and eBay; notables such Representative Eva Clayton, the first African-American to represent North Carolina in Congress since 1898, current Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez, and the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Denmark; major universities including Duke, Case Western Reserve, Santa Clara University, and University of San Francisco, and; cultural institutions such as The Getty Museum, The Huntington Library, Art Museum & Gardens and The Art Institute of Chicago.

Clients have included tech and internet companies such as Bigcommerce, Tripadvisor, and Udemy; life science, pharma and healthcare brands such as LEO Pharma, ConnectiveRx, Parse Biosciences, and ivWatch; fashion brands Trina Turk and Mr. Turk; nonprofits including The Cleveland Foundation, City of Hope, and Oxfam America; and food-related companies and organizations including sustainable food pioneer Bon Appétit Management Company, Equitable Food Initiative, Center for Environmental Farming Systems, Community Alliance for Family Farmers, Lone Mountain Wagyu, and Estancia Beef.

Shev lives in Los Angeles and New York City. He is a dedicated advocate of issues pertaining to human rights, animal rights, and gender, racial, and LGBTQ+ equality and regularly volunteers his time privately in related efforts. Finally, Shev’s passion for architectural restoration and design spans over 20 years with his work  having been profiled in the bestselling book, Creative Spaces (Chronicle Books) and featured in Architectural Digest, the Los Angeles Times, Curbed, Palm Springs Life, California Home & Design, Design Milk, and other media.