His primary focus is leading private equity portfolio companies through accelerated growth and onto highly profitable liquidity events.

As CEO and President, he’s built and led teams through a total of 5 private sales and 2 IPOs, with an industry focus on the technology, media, and telecom (TMT) sector, including tech-enabled services, software, and high-tech manufacturing companies. 

Keith's approach to creating value, even in financially challenged companies, is through an emphasis on team building, asset identification, and growth – resulting in highly competitive sale processes and solid exit returns.

LIQUIDITY EVENTS
Keith's leadership has driven seven successful liquidity events, including:

• Growing one enterprise software company by almost 300% in  under 2 years, and selling it to Oracle for a 5X return to its PE investors
• Turning around one manufacturing company and yielding a 4X return for the PE sponsor
• Leading the growth and sale of a satellite start-up and generating a 14X return on invested capital for the founders
• Leading a digital media company with an IPO that enabled acquisitions and a 35X growth in revenue

STARTUPS
Keith founded and built 2 startups:

• One grew from startup to $17M in under 3 years and was successfully sold
• Another launched a new mobile product nationwide in under 8 months and was quickly acquired by a major software company

TURNAROUNDS
Keith has led several major turnarounds:

• One grew from a $10M loss to profitability in 1 year
• One was completely restructured and grew from a $7M loss to $8M EBITDA, then sold
• One grew from to 33% EBITDA margins in under a year after being in default on 3 loans due to prior multi-year losses
• One grew EBITDA by 80% in 18 months

BOARDS OF DIRECTORS

Keith’s leadership skills have led his PE sponsors to appoint him to board positions in their portfolio companies, helping those to achieve similar growth and value realization as the companies he’s led.