Team Biographies

Each KEF and KNEV investment company is offered the opportunity to work with an executive consultant (EC). These elite executives will assist companies in determining business goals that will help propel them to the next level of business success. 

Companies will be matched with one of the following executives on our team.  

Jodi Graham

Jodi Graham has spent the last six years as Vice President of Sales & Marketing for United Medical Resources, a United Healthcare Company, and is currently an independent consultant for Strategic Growth Advisors.  Her background includes over 20 years of leadership in sales, account management, customer service and business development. Jodi’s focus throughout her career has been identifying and understanding her customers’ needs and finding ways to align her employer’s offerings and value proposition with those needs.  As a result of her experience, she brings a wealth of knowledge to enhance customer service, sales and marketing, and customer retention.  Jodi also has a track record of transferring her skills to different industries including Health Care, Telecommunications and Office Products.  She has a B.S. in Business with a major in Marketing from Miami University in Oxford, OH and is a graduate of the University of Michigan Executive Program.

Kyle Keeney

Kyle Keeney was appointed in December 2009 as an Executive in Residence for KSTC. He brings over 20 years of corporate experience to the program.  Educated at Georgetown College, Baylor University, with a Ph.D. in complexity modeling from Temple University, Kyle is a visionary leader able to balance market context, academic rigor, and solid innovation with organizational capacity and constraints. Unbound by conventional thinking, Kyle leads organizations down new and rewarding avenues to meet objectives for revenue and growth. Kyle comes to KSTC with a long and distinguished client list including working with the American Management Association, Applied Materials, Bayer, Eli Lilly, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, and Sun Microsystems.