As COO of LEAP, Keith brings over a decade of economic development experience and strategic leadership to LEAP, overseeing day-to-day operations and performance of the organization’s diverse range of economic development services and programs.
Keith works closely across the LEAP team, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, local government partners, regional counterparts across Michigan and a multitude of private sector allies on shared priorities that drive investment and job creation into the area.

From 2017 to 2024, Keith led LEAP's Regional Growth department, which conducts the organization's business attraction program including lead generation, prospecting, site selection and attraction project management, runs the regional business retention program and management of business expansion projects, carries out community development and placemaking projects, and services the economic development contracts of Ingham County and Clinton County.

Previous to returning to LEAP, Keith led the business recruitment program for Charleston County Economic Development in South Carolina, where he employed innovative and data-driven tools to maximize business attraction results in that rapidly growing market, including substantial European FDI activities.

Before his time in South Carolina, Keith served 2.5 years as LEAP's Tri-County Development Manager, where he worked to foster strong relationships throughout the region while leading a dynamic slew of projects ranging from crowdfunded creative placemaking, to complex business expansion incentive deals, to a federally-funded brownfield redevelopment program.

In the decade 2014-2024, Keith served as project manager for dozens of economic development projects – a majority of them business attraction opportunities – constituting over $3.6 billion in committed private investment and over 3,500 new jobs.
Keith proudly represents LEAP as a commissioner of the Lansing Regional Sister Cities Commission, and serves as the President of LEAP THRIVE, a 501c3 organization set up for community development purposes and to participate in innovative financing structures to help make high community impact but financially difficult projects feasible.

Keith graduated from Michigan State University with a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from James Madison College, an added major in Economics and a specialization in International Political Economy.

Keith is a strong believer in the power of a good job, and loves serving his home state of Michigan helping to take the Lansing region to the next level of industry growth, economic opportunity and greater community prosperity for all who call our region home.