Roger Kenny is Vice Chairman of CTPartners Board Consultants, a premier practice committed to performance, quality and results. 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, food, energy, pharmaceutical and communications.
In 1982, Roger founded Kenny & Kindler, Inc, an executive search firm specializing in C-level engagements and board search. After acquiring Boardroom Consultants and assuming its name, Roger led the growth of the firm as President and Managing Partner until it merged 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 for clients in a wide cross-section of industries. 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.
A graduate of Manhattan College, Roger earned an MBA from the New York University Graduate School of Business. He received Manhattan College’s Dean Fitzgerald Award and is an Honorary Fellow of the Foreign Policy Association. He 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 Proudfoot Consulting. Roger is based in the firm’s New York headquarters.