| David Kenny | |
| Birth Date: | 1961 |
| Birth Place: | Lansing, Michigan |
| Known For: | former CEO of The Weather Channel, former CEO of Nielsen Company |
| Education: | Kettering University Harvard Business School (MBA) |
| Occupation: | Businessman |
| 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]