Roger M. Kenny
Kenny Boardroom Consulting

Roger Kenny is a Co-founder and Managing Partner of Kenny Boardroom Consulting. A well-respected governance specialist, Roger provides clients with director recruitment, board assessment and succession planning consultation.

Roger has assisted the world's leading organizations in strategically structuring boards and in identifying individuals with unique skill sets to fill specific roles. His clients include companies at every stage of growth in most industries. Among these are manufacturing, consumer goods, chemicals, pharmaceutical, healthcare, technology and communications.

In 1988, Roger acquired Boardroom Consultants and led the growth of the firm into board recruitment as its President and Managing Partner until the firm's merger with a Chicago-based search firm in 2007.

Roger entered the search industry with SpencerStuart. As Senior Vice President and Partner, he executed CEO and senior general management assignments. Early career experience includes holding senior roles in planning, consulting, and operations at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

Heralded as an expert on governance, Roger is a frequent contributor to major business publications. His thought leadership articles have appeared in The Harvard Business Review, the California Management Review, The Business Quarterly, American Banker, The Corporate Board, Directors & Boards, Directors Monthly and The Financial Review. Roger and Ram Charan are the authors of E-Board Strategies: How to Survive and Win.

Roger is recognized by peers, the executive community and the business press for professional excellence. In 2008, BusinessWeek cited him as one of the 50 Most Influential Headhunters in the industry. The Association of Executive Search Consultants awarded him the Gardner W. Heidrick Award for outstanding contributions to the search industry.

Roger holds leadership roles in several organizations, serving as a member of the Board of Advisors of the New York Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) and as a Senior Advisor at Alexander Proudfoot Consulting.