Joe Kennedy ’81

Joe Kennedy ’81
President and CEO Emeritus
Pandora

Joe Kennedy is the former CEO and chairman of Pandora. Kennedy joined Savage Beast Technologies, Inc., a struggling music technology company, in 2004 as CEO and president, and transformed it into Pandora, now the world's largest internet radio service. He stepped down as chairman, CEO and president in 2013 and has served as an advisor since then. Previously, he served a five-year stint at E-LOAN, where he was president and chief operating officer. From 1995 to 1999, he was the vice president of sales, service, and marketing for Saturn Corporation, which he grew to over $4 billion in revenue and established as the top brand for customer satisfaction in the auto industry. Kennedy holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BSE degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton.