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Joe Kennedy is Pandora's CEO and resident pop music junkie. When he isn't running the company (and yes, while he is running it too) he likes to listen to Pandora stations based on Train's "Lincoln Avenue" and Sarah McLachlan's "Adia." Mr. Kennedy has played the piano for more than 30 years. According to Mr. Kennedy, most of that time has been spent attempting to master Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue."
Mr. Kennedy joined the company in 2004 following a successful 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. Mr. Kennedy joined the initial start-up team at Saturn four months after its founding as a marketing manager and held positions of increasing marketing responsibility over the course of his 11-year tenure there. Mr. Kennedy holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University, where he dabbled in music theory and learned to compose his own Gregorian chants.
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