Keith has had an illustrious, diverse, and successful career both nationally and globally for nearly 50 years. He was raised to experience as much as possible, successfully achieve career aspirations, and always lean into risk and challenges and their respective rewards and accolades.
Most recently, Keith has served as the Vice President of Business and Partnership Development and Principal Consultant of ReNieu Worldwide LLC (a company he started) for national and global sustainability initiatives, practices, and protocols. He’s worked with the World’s largest olive producing manufacturing plant in the management of epic amounts of waste water, consulting with the agriculture sector on soil management and renewal, and also water sourcing and desalination plants. Most importantly he has worked on the creation of the “Sustainica” showcase and theme park with the King of Saudi Arabia and the President of United Arab Emirates. Additionally, he partnered with the University of Arizona (President) in their work with EXPO 2020 Dubai (World’s Fair) and was asked by the President of the University of Arizona to put together a proposal with his personal vision of how to reimagine the Biosphere 2 and make it into a tourist destination.
Prior to the above, he created MANKINDdog E-Commerce LLC business - - - a comprehensive, interactive website for luxury gifts for people, people and their pets, and just pets. With nearly 500 products and gift combinations, MANKINDdog was successfully able to enter and compete in one of the World’s most challenging business environments - - - on-line retail. MANKINDdog also captured a huge market share (Keith developed and managed this program) of providing high-end pet welcome gifts for guests and their dogs traveling to and staying at high-end luxury resorts as well as more moderate pet-friendly hotels.
In the year 2000, Keith began plans and raising investment capital for what would become the World’s premier and first-of-its-kind pet spa and resort (located in the uber trendy Meatpacking District of Manhattan). He was featured on all local media, print (magazines, newspapers, etc.), digital media, and interviewed on Wake-up Tokyo, Italian National TV and nationally syndicated talk shows as being the “the Dog Daddy” for Manhattan and many parts of the country and the world.
In the 90s, he served as the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Government Relations / Compliance for New York Life’s Managed Health Care Division (Medicare Risk Contracts with the Federal Government’s Health Care Financing Administration). He was based in Manhattan, but oversaw from a corporate perspective 14 health plans and nearly 5,000,000 Medicare members (in 14 major cities, such as Houston, Chicago, Dallas, New York, etc.).
Additionally, Keith was selected by his health care company to relocate from Southern California to Philadelphia to serve for 3 years as an executive in the collaboration and first-of-its-kind contracted partnership between the long-established health plan in California and a new struggling plan in Philadelphia. The collaboration and partnership proved to be a huge success, but opportunities in Manhattan became available to him so he took on that new challenge. He lived in Manhattan for 15 years - - - Upper West Side - - - a far cry from growing up in the Silicon Valley area (San Jose, California) and Arizona.
Early in his career, Keith was the Director for the American Red Cross / Blood Donor Resources Development in Los Angeles and Orange Counties, California. It was here where he developed a huge skill set and success in dealing with corporate CEOs of Fortune 500 companies in securing their support and on-going commitment to the American Red Cross (both blood and financial).
In each position (except my recent consulting), he oversaw hundreds of marketing, sales, and customer service staff - - - all on top of being responsible for new business development, collaborations, and partnerships.
Of mention, lastly, is he started a solar pool heating system company when he was 16 years old while in high school. It turned into a huge success and he ended up selling the business to an Australian Company.
Keith has a BS from the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA (Business Administration, Business Development, Management, and Marketing). 1978 – 1982
Lastly, Keith is an absolute animal lover, has 4 dogs (had 8 at one point) and is involved in many animal welfare organizations (Humane Societies, ASPCA, etc.) throughout the region and the country.
