Praveen Kenneth

Adman Praveen Kenneth (15 March 1970), is an Indian entrepreneur, Co-owner, Chairman and Managing Director of L&K | Saatchi & Saatchi. The 44-year-old former Publicis hand, who rose to CEO of Publicis Worldwide India in the late 1990s and early 2000s, started Law & Kenneth in 2002 along with Andy Law and investment support from Bodyshop’s Anita Roddick. At that time the agency was called St. Luke’s. It was eventually renamed as Law and Kenneth in 2004 to create one of the first Indian independent agencies with a global footprint.

Kenneth was born and raised in Bangalore in southern India. He studied at St Joseph’s High School and Christ College in Bangalore. He began his career at Ogilvy and Mather as a trainee when he was 20 years old and became the youngest CEO at the Publics Group at the age of 29. Kenneth had worked at Mudra DDB, McCann Erickson. During this time, he worked with brands such as Coca Cola, L'Oreal, Cathay Pacific, Levers and Hewlett-Packard. Kenneth quit Publicis India to help UK-based independent agency St. Luke's start operations in Asia Pacific in 2002. In 2005, Kenneth along with his UK mate Andy Law, who was one of the founders of St. Luke’s, took over St. Luke’s operations with investment from Bodyshop’s Anita Roddick. Kenneth turned advertising entrepreneur and on October 2, 2005, Law & Kenneth was born with its headquarters in London.

Vision:

The vision of the Praveen Kenneth Chair on Leadership is to create a campus wide culture of leadership across disciplines and in all areas of student and faculty life and to create awareness among the students of the university of the importance of personal and social leadership in and thereby contribute effectively to the societal demand.

Mission:

To create empowered leaders for today and tomorrow.

Core beliefs:

To create a campus wide culture of leadership across disciplines and in all areas of student and faculty life.

Education

• Christ University, Bangalore - Organizational Leadership 2018