New York native. Nomad by choice. Mermaid hair aspirant. Yoga junkie. Mother. Hugger. Boutique hotel seeker. Lover of pink drinks under big moons.

Emily Reynolds Bergh is a consummate marketing and public relations pro with 15+ years of experience delivering personalized, top-caliber PR services to a diverse array of clients, particularly in the hospitality, business, and technology spaces. She acquired her deep knowledge of industry benchmarks and best practices by starting as a freelance writer and then progressing through a series of pivotal PR positions at Jason Dady Restaurant Group in San Antonio, Bread & Butter in Austin, and Bay Bird in San Diego, all of which taught her her craft and honed her skills until she was ready to branch out on her own.

Launched in Texas in 2016, R Public Relations is an uncommonly customer-focused boutique lifestyle agency that now operates out of five national hub cities. At the helm of a highly talented team of specialists, Emily is dedicated to curating flourishing brands, leveraging the power of masterful storytelling, and empowering her clients to make an impactful mark on their local communities. In the process, R has garnered extensive press and won numerous awards for excellence — from, among others, Clutch, Expertise, UpCity, and Great Companies — and Emily has become a recognized thought leader among her peers, currently serving on the Forbes Business Council, the Entrepreneur Leadership Network, and as a PR on the Go Expert.

When she’s not immersed in the work she relishes, Emily prioritizes time with her family — her husband, Colter, and their five “peaches,” as she calls their children — sharing cultural adventures and traveling to points far and wide with them, always on the lookout for R’s next great find along the way. Emily’s philosophy on life and lifestyle are one and the same, inspired by her hilltop home in Upstate New York: Your stories have power — make them move mountains!

As featured in Forbes and Entrepreneur as a Woman to Watch in Business 2023

Serial Entrepreneur. IPA all day. Boy Dad. Girl Dad. Web Dev. INTJ. Print Shop Papa.

Colter is the yin to Emily’s yang—the two of them create marketing and communications campaigns with creative zest, thoughtful flair, and innovative genius. Born and raised in the heart of tech, aka Northern California, Colter started his entrepreneur career like many—in his parents’ garage. At the age of 17, he started his first screen-printing and clothing brand business, Spindustry, where he met his previous business partner, Olan Rogers. Olan and Colter built an empire together with a soda shop (The Soda Parlor) and a clothing brand business (Star Cadet). As Olan’s TV career took off, he and Colter amicably parted ways and Colter began his media firm, Future Media, which focuses solely on websites and web development.

Colter’s love is in coding—he sees custom coding like custom printing in that it starts with an idea and the magic is getting the vision onto the site. Colter met RPR firm’s founder and CEO, Emily, in 2017, and they quickly became inseparable, building another empire (R Creative) and co-parenting a family in Nashville. For the past year, they have been traveling the country with their now five kids and building websites, public relations and marketing campaigns, and renovating an RV. You can find them both on a mountain top in upstate New York working on another renovation, a historic cabin and working daily on making more dreams coming true for clients across the globe.