David Kenny | |
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 David Kenny in 2017 | |
| Born | 1961 |
| Education | Kettering University Harvard Business School (MBA) |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Known for | former CEO of The Weather Channel, former CEO of Nielsen Company |
| Title | Executive chairmain, Nielsen |
David Kenny is an American businessman and the former CEO of Nielsen Holdings. He was formerly the CEO of The Weather Company and senior vice president of IBM's Watson & Cloud platform.
Kenny was born in Lansing, Michigan in 1961. [1] He earned a bachelor's degree from Kettering University (then the General Motors Institute) in 1984 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1986. [2] [1]
Kenny worked as a consultant at Bain & Company between 1987 and 1997. [1] In 1997 he became the CEO of Digitas, leading the company through an initial public offering in 2000 and its acquisition by Publicis Groupe in 2007. [3] [4] He was the president of Akamai Technologies and resigned from this position on October 26, 2011. [5] [6]
In January 2012, Kenny replaced Mike Kelly as CEO of The Weather Company and served as chairman of the board. [7] [8] When The Weather Company was acquired by IBM in 2016, Kenny became the senior Vice President of IBM's Watson & Cloud platform. [9]
Kenny joined Nielsen as CEO in December 2018. In September 2023, he was succeeded by Karthik Rao and assumed the role of executive chairman. [10]
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