PPG Promotes Kenny to New Position

PPG Industries, a Pittsburgh, Pa.-based supplier of coatings, chemicals, optical products, glass and fiberglass, has promoted Patrick Kenny to the newly created position of general manager, corporate marketing and construction markets.

Kenny has served as manager of PPG's construction market team since 2003 and has assumed the additional responsibility of leading its corporate marketing initiatives. According to the company, the corporate marketing group will manage market studies in support of growth initiatives and development activities. He continues reporting to Dick Beuke, vice president, growth initiatives.

Beuke said, "[Kenny] is well qualified for this new assignment given his proven track record in business-to-business marketing, sales, strategy development and implementation, as well as, his deep knowledge of the construction market."

Kenny earned a bachelor's degree in marketing from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University and an executive MBA from the University of Pittsburgh.

He joined PPG's marketing department in 1980, then progressed through project management, sales and sales management positions in the company's performance glazings business. In 1989 he moved to Hong Kong as director of sales for a joint venture. In 1993 he became marketing manager, flat glass, and was later promoted to director of marketing in 1999.