Martin E. Kenney, Jr.

Executive Vice President of the Education Group
President of the Education Technology Group
Simon & Schuster

Martin E. Kenney, Jr. was Executive Vice President of the Education Group in May, 1995. At the same time he was appointed President of Simon & Schuster's recently formed Education Technology Group, and, within these roles, has group-wide operating responsibilities including the investment and development of technology across all of Simon & Schuster's education businesses. Previously, Mr. Kenney had held the dual positions of President of the Business, Training & Healthcare Group and Senior Vice President, Marketing for Simon & Schuster.

Mr. Kenney joined the company in 1990 as President of the Supplementary Education Group. In this position, he had operating responsibility for Computer Curriculum Corporation, Globe Fearon, Judy/Instructo, Coronet/MTI and Modern Curriculum Press. In 1993, he was promoted to the position of Senior Vice Presdent of the Education Group and was subsequently appointed to the newly-created position of Senior Vice President, Marketing for Simon & Schuster.

Mr. Kenney joined Simon & Schuster from J. B. Lippincott Company where he was Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Prior to that, he had been Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for the Institute of Scientific Information in Philadelphia. For six years previous to this, he fulfilled a progressive series of positions at McGraw-Hill Book Company including President and General Manager of Instructo, President of the MH/Continuing Education Center, Group President for the Training, Video and Software Group, Senior Vice President of Corporate Marketing, and President of College Pubhshing. Before joining McGraw-Hill, he was President and General Manager of Winston Press, a CBS PubIishing group, and President of Whittemore Associates, a unit of ABC Publishing.

Born in the Bronx, New York, Mr. Kenney gaduated in 1969 from St. Louis University. He has done graduate work at New York University and Babson College.

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