Keith C. Farrell, C.P.A., M.B.A.

Keith joined EmKey in 2011 as the company’s chief accounting officer and was promoted to chief financial officer on January 1, 2022. Since 2011, he has overseen the accounting, finance, and tax functions of EmKey Energy and affiliated entities engaged in energy upstream, midstream, and real estate. As part of his role, he has also managed the HR and IT divisions of the company.

Prior to EmKey, he worked five years in public accounting and ten years of progressive roles in manufacturing.

As part of the EmKey executive team, he has been the chief financial architect of the development and construction of multiple $100M+ enterprise-value businesses. Within these ventures, his primary responsibilities are developing financial models and forecasts to justify economics, constructing optimal capital structure, raising debt and equity capital, and facilitating communication and reporting amongst all investors involved with the projects.

Keith holds a master of business administration, in addition to his bachelor of science degrees in Accounting and a minor in Management Information Systems, from Penn State Behrend. He serves or has served as an adjunct professor of accounting at Penn State University and Mercyhurst University, where he has published research in the areas of corporate tax shelters and cost containment. He is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Keith is passionate about his activities and research into capital and energy markets and acting as a leader and mentor for other business professionals and his community.

Keith resides in Erie, Pennsylvania, with his wife and three children. He joined the Executive in Residence program in the 2023–24 academic year and works closely with the Accounting program.