Michael Keehner

Adjunct Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School

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  • Columbia Business School

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Biography

Columbia Business School

Professor Keehner is a seasoned executive and prominent investment banker with global experience, senior management responsibilities and a successful track record. He spent more than twenty years of his career with Kidder, Peabody Group, a full-service global investment banking firm where he was a member of the firm's Board of Directors and Executive and Management committees. In 1994, he formed a strategic advisory and private investment company.

Presently, he is an Adjunct Professor of Finance & Economics at Columbia Business School, teaching courses in Entrepreneurial Finance, Leadership in Financial services, and Risk Management; a Faculty adviser to the The Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics; and a Director of Oppenheimer Holdings, Inc.

He is involved in entrepreneurship, governance and risk management activities, new ventures and turn-around situations, in addition to his teaching avocation and other commitments. He has been a Board memnber for several listed companies, as well as many Privately-held entities.

Companies

  • Adjunct Professor of Finance and Economics Columbia Business School (2005)
  • Member Board Of Directors Oppenheimer Holdings, Inc. (2008 — 2018)
  • Member NACD (National Association of Corporate Directors) (2009 — 2016)
  • Executive Managing Director and Board Member Kidder Peabody (1971 — 1994)
  • Systems Engineering Manager General Dynamics (1965 — 1969)

Education

  • MBA with High DIstinction Harvard Business School (1969 — 1971)
  • Bachelors Degree (S..B.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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