Dean, Anderson College of Business

Regis University

 

Dr. Keane’s career has included leadership positions with a Global Fortune 500 firm, as a technology entrepreneur and within academe at three universities. During his 20 years in marketing and sales at Anheuser-Busch, Dr. Keane created innovative target marketing campaigns for high volume markets and created the company’s first business analytics department focused on portfolio optimization. He left the company to launch a sales force automation software venture. As a Microsoft Joint Development Partner, the firm created customized supply chain solutions for consumer packaged goods companies. When the company was bought in 2003, Dr. Keane entered academe full-time. His many accomplishments in higher ed have included being named a Ewing Marion Kauffman Entrepreneurial Scholar and launching seven new research/teaching centers, each focused on solving issues at the nexus of business and society. In June of 2015 Dr. Keane was selected from a national search to become the founding dean of Regis University’s new College of Business and Economics. Dr. Keane led the cultivation for the largest gift in Regis University’s history for naming rights to the College, relaunching it in April 2018 as the Anderson College of Business.