Mr. Keenan is president and chairman of the board of directors of High Performance Technologies, Inc. (HPTi). As president, Mr. Keenan has overall strategic and operational responsibility for HPTi’s initiatives in developing systems technologies. As one of the original founders of HPTi, he has helped to develop and grow HPTi into a dynamic firm known for its combination of creative design and disciplined execution. Mr. Keenan is adept at new business development and program planning for entrepreneurial organizations and is an acknowledged expert in program capture and competitive strategy development. With nearly three decades of technical and managerial experience in the design, development, and integration of leading-edge systems for the federal marketplace, Mr. Keenan is consistently sought to participate in industry studies of large, mission-critical, software-intensive systems. He is also pursued for his insights into acquisition streamlining and business transformation. Mr. Keenan graduated with a B.S. from The Ohio State University (OSU) and earned his M.B.A. from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. He has received Ernst & Young’s Best Boss Award, OSU’s Professional Achievement Award, GovCon’s Executive of the Year, the American Business Award for Best Executive, and the Entrepreneurism Award from the Fisher College of Business at OSU.

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Original Air Date: January 6, 2010