{"id":417502,"date":"2026-07-30T03:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T03:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/417502\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T03:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T03:09:07","slug":"the-indispensables-2026-rachel-russell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/417502\/","title":{"rendered":"The Indispensables 2026: Rachel Russell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium aligncenter\" style=\"max-height: 400px; max-width: 300px; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"Rachel Russell\" width=\"90%\" height=\"auto\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1785380947_157_w=9999.jpeg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium aligncenter\" style=\"max-height: 400px; max-width: 300px; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1785380947_157_w=9999.jpeg\" alt=\"Rachel Russell\" width=\"90%\" height=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Assistant Director<br \/>EY<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Russell, an assistant director at EY, is the driving force behind the firm\u2019s \u201cEntrepreneur Of The Year\u201d program in Los Angeles. From securing partnerships that elevate the program to ensuring the annual gala runs seamlessly, she is the operational engine behind one of the most prestigious entrepreneurship platforms. Russell\u2019s marketing and event activation work has created millions in the pipeline, generated significant revenue and reached thousands of new stakeholders \u2013 all behind the scenes. Even if it\u2019s not immediately visible, her mark of excellence is on every aspect of the program, and she has elevated the EY Los Angeles brand to new heights.<\/p>\n<p>Words To Describe Them: Thoughtful, meticulous, creative, ambitious, results-oriented, connector<\/p>\n<p>From the Indispensable: \u201cI want to lift up amazing entrepreneurs and help them share their stories with the world, because, ultimately, their stories are the stories of L.A. In that way, I see Entrepreneur Of The Year as a way to lift up our whole city and celebrate the creativity that makes Los Angeles a one-of-a-kind place.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Assistant DirectorEY Rachel Russell, an assistant director at EY, is the driving force behind the firm\u2019s \u201cEntrepreneur Of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[166977,48,52,51,47,50,49,166978],"class_list":["post-417502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ey","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-rachel-russell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}