Keith joins our Associate Group with over 30 years of business experience in Canada, the United States, Europe, and the Far East. He has an extensive background in corporate and international trade finance and merchant banking. The first part of Keith’s career was spent in progressively senior roles with the Bank of Montreal, RoyNat and U.S. Bancorp with a primary focus on managing teams structuring banking, and subordinated debt – equity transactions for SME’s in Ontario, Alberta and Ohio. Upon his return to Canada, Keith worked with Export Development Canada in Ottawa where he was directly involved in transactions around the world and eventually headed their team with responsibility for the recommendation/approval of loans and venture capital investments. More recently Keith spent 5 years working as a Vice President at Nortel Networks in Brampton where he led the global customer credit management, risk management and structured finance teams. He was also responsible for the overhauling of Nortel’s risk assessment and approval processes, procedures and governance around customer and counterparty (treasury market) risk. Keith is now living in Victoria where he is also active in the United Way and a golfer.