Richard Siklos

Richard Siklos is a highly accomplished Canadian-born business journalist, corporate communications executive, and author who has masterfully navigated the intersections of global media, entertainment culture, and Fortune 500 corporate strategy. Raising his professional profile initially as an award-winning financial and media journalist, Siklos served as the New York bureau chief for the Financial Post before executing high-profile tenures as a columnist for The New York Times, media editor at Business Week, editor-at-large for Fortune magazine, and an international correspondent for London's Sunday Telegraph and The Times. He achieved significant literary acclaim with his definitive corporate biography, Shades of Black: Conrad Black and the World’s Fastest Growing Press Empire, which he later meticulously revised and vastly expanded into the bestseller Shades of Black: Conrad Black – His Rise and Fall, cementing his reputation as a premier chronicler of corporate power and media mogul downfalls. Transitioning from journalism into elite corporate affairs, Siklos served for seven years as Vice President of Strategic Communications and Corporate Affairs at Time Warner Inc.—overseeing messaging across Warner Bros., CNN, and HBO—before joining Netflix as Vice President of Communications, where he steered global public relations during a hyper-growth era in which subscriber bases more than doubled. He further consolidated his corporate dominance as Partner and Chief Communications Officer at United Talent Agency (UTA), orchestrating global narrative strategies across multiple high-stakes mergers, acquisitions, and European expansions. Entering 2025 and moving dynamically through 2026, Siklos has exited his agency role to operate as a premier independent C-suite strategic advisor, leveraging his storytelling mindset and crisis management expertise to guide major disruptive brands through complex corporate scaling and media-landscape transformations.