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Mar 8, 2022

Kenny Kemp author, journalist, media communicator

I talk to my friend Kenny about his amazing career.

Kenny Kemp is an author, journalist, media communicator and one of the UK’s most experienced non-fiction writers. He has been engaged as a report writer and media consultant to a number of individuals, businesses and organisations. He has been the preferred ghost-writer to several international business figures. The combined sales of his ghost-written books are c.500,000 copies worldwide.

Kenny is a former daily and Sunday newspaper journalist. He was founding Business Editor of the Sunday Herald and Editor of BQ (Business Quarter) Scotland for five years from 2010 until 2015, and has been a contributor to Scottish Business Insider.  He is a former staffer of the Evening Standard in London. He has written comprehensively for a range of titles such as the Herald, Sunday Herald, The Scotsman, and the Sunday Times. He is an Associate of the University of Edinburgh Business School, and Editor of Panmure House Perspectives, the business journal of Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. He is also co-author of a history of Scottish Television.

Some highlights

  • Author of a comprehensive business history of Scotland’s leading engineering private equity investor. (2018)
  • Writer of two volumes of Navigating the Digital Age, a handbook for C-suite leaders on the implication of cyber-security developments. For Palo Alto Networks. (2017)
  • Worked as collaborator with Sir Richard Branson on his best-selling business book, Business Stripped Bare, published in September 2008.
  • Co-author with Barbara Cassani of Go: An Airline Adventure, WH Smith Business Book of the Year in 2004.
  • Speechwriter and media adviser for a number of high-profile public figures.
  • Author of book on battle between Boeing and Airbus, entitled Flight of the Titans (2005) and author of Destination Space (2006), about rise of space tourism.

Journalism and Writing Awards, The Scottish Daily Newspaper Society Scottish Press Awards

Business Writer of the Year 2010, 2003, 2001, Business Writer of the Year Runner-up 2010, 2002,BT Technology Writer of the Year Runner-up 2003, WH Smith Business Book of the Year Award 2004

 

For further details visit http://kennykemp.co.uk/

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