Point of View: No speed limit

David Kenny may have surprised Madison Avenue by leaving Publicis Groupe to become chief executive of Akamai, but the latter is a significant player in the future of media and advertising – 25% to 30% of all internet traffic passes through its global network of computer servers.

No speed limit

Joe Mandese

MediaPost

By some accounts, David Kenny was the man who would be king – poised to become the first American head of Paris-based Publicis Groupe, he surprised Madison Avenue by announcing that he was stepping down as the agency holding company's chief digital strategist, co-managing director and heir apparent to Publicis chief executive Maurice Levy.

When Kenny explained that he simply wanted to return to his home town of Boston, many thought there was more to the story – including me. So I asked Kenny if he wouldn't mind keynoting a conference I was organising...

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