Keith Bank
Managing Director

Keith Bank is a co-founder and Managing Director of KB Partners, and has a diverse background in start-up companies, real estate, and other entrepreneurial ventures.  Keith has been an active investor in various early stage and start-up technology companies in a wide variety of industries including the semiconductor, cable TV, Internet, medical and software arenas.

Keith serves as a board member for Kirtas Technologies and Data TV Networks, and oversees the firm's investment in The Active Network. Keith is a founding board member of the Illinois Venture Capital Association, and served as its Chairman for 2005 - 2006.  He was the recipient of IVCA’s prestigious Fellows Medal in 2006.  He is also the Chairman and Founder of the Chicago Select Golf Invitational, which has raised in excess of $4,000,000 for the American Cancer Society, making it the largest ACS golf event in the country. He has been honored by Crain's Chicago Business as a "40 under 40", a Who's Who of Chicago Executives and as one of the 100 most prominent members of Chicago's technology economy.

Prior to forming KB Partners in 1996, Keith served for seven years as a Principal at Hiffman Shaffer Associates, Inc., a Chicago-based national real estate development, investment, management and brokerage firm.  There he participated in the development and acquisition of more than $250 million worth of retail, industrial and office properties.  He also leased and/or sold properties totaling over three million square feet with a value in excess of $400 million. Other career highlights include co-founding a chain of deep discount drugstores, acquiring and completing a successful turnaround of a woman's apparel manufacturing and sales company, and procuring the equity and debt financing for, and producing, a feature film entitled Heaven Is A Playground.

Keith graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.S. degree in Economics from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and received his MBA with honors from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

You can reach Keith Bank at keith@kbpartners.com.