Northeastern has hired two new top-level administrators: Brian Kenny, vice president for marketing and communications, and Thomas Moore, MBA’76, dean of the College of Business Administration.

Kenny is responsible for leading communications and public relations, conference and event planning, Northeastern University Alumni Magazine, the Northeastern Voice, photography, publications, and web services.

He will be looking to build on the university’s already prominent marketing and branding campaign, spearheaded by former University Relations vice president Sandra T. King, MBA’77.

Previously, Kenny was global director of marketing for the Monitor Group. He has also directed marketing at Genuity/Level 3 Communications and Arthur D. Little, and headed up marketing and publications at Boston University, and admissions and media relations at the Franklin Institute of Boston.

Moore comes to Northeastern from Babson College, where he was vice president of executive education and corporate programs. He replaces Ira Weiss, who served as business dean for a decade.

In other roles at Babson, Moore for seven years was dean of the F. W. Olin Graduate School of Business—one of the top fifty in the country, according to U.S. News—and served as CEO of Babson Interactive, a for-profit distance-learning company funded by Babson.

He has also been vice president and dean of Arthur D. Little’s School of Management, an accredited graduate school, and vice president of Arthur D. Little International, which delivered executive education.

Earlier in his career, Moore was associate dean and, later, acting dean at NU’s College of Business, overseeing the graduate and undergraduate schools, professional accounting, and the Center for Management Development.

Moore taught marketing and management courses to both graduates and undergraduates during his years at Northeastern and Babson.

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