Managing Partner at Radiant, inc, Founder of betterPropaganda
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- Founder at betterPropaganda
- Managing Partner at radiant interactive, inc
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Ken Manning’s Summary
Ken is the founder of betterPropaganda Music, a leading music discovery site with relationships with more than 600 major and independent labels.
Ken spun betterPropaganda out of Radiant Interactive, a company he helped to build into a leading interactive design agency, serving top-tier clients such as the World Health Organization, the Global Fund, Microsoft, and others. Ken established all areas of operation, drove company direction and growth, supported Radiant’s accounts, and led an incubator program.
Prior to Radiant, Ken was CEO of the online entertainment portal, SCAPE, a Village Roadshow venture in Australia. Ken established and grew all operational areas of the company of 120 employees, developed the company's brand image and product strategy and attracted the company’s major sponsors Vodafone and MasterCard.
Ken was also a founding employee at Razorfish's San Francisco office before SCAPE, where he helped to built successful relationships with clients such as Cisco, McKinsey Consulting, and Excite@Home. As GM and Director of the Strategy Group in San Francisco, he substantially grew regional revenues and profits. He supervised multiple large teams on more than 50 high-profile enterprise-level projects and specialized in the areas of product design, web brand and marketing, and e-business. He also advised clients such as eBay and eMachines in their pre-IPO phases. Before Razorfish, Ken founded a Web site design company in New York in 1995. He has also worked in financial management with a Lehman Brothers/ Morgan Stanley subsidiary.
Ken has appeared on CNBC's Asia Week and other television, radio, and print media discussing the high-tech industry, brand, and interactive design.
Ken received his technical MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with concentrations in organizational behavior and high-tech marketing. He completed his undergraduate work in philosophy and history at Marquette and health sciences at Columbia University.
