|
 Lee Keesler’s life-long passion for the
Charlotte-Mecklenburg region is broadly evidenced in more than two decades
of commitment to the corporate community and significant volunteer
leadership roles in the non-profit sector. Keesler served as board chair of
the Arts & Science Council from 1998-1999 before joining the organization in
2004 as president & CEO. He also serves as president of the Foundation for
the Arts & Sciences. At the national level, Keesler serves on the United
Arts Funds Council of Americans for the Arts.
Former Senior Vice President and Commercial
Banking Executive for Wachovia Bank’s Carolinas and Georgia Regions, Keesler
provided strategic and financial leadership for the bank’s middle market
commercial banking activities in North Carolina, South Carolina, and
Georgia. Additionally, he led the company’s Government & Institutional
Banking business enterprise-wide.
Keesler also enjoys extensive involvement as an
active volunteer in the community. He currently serves on the Capital
Campaign Planning Board, the McColl Graduate School of Business Board of
Advisors, and the boards of ArtsTeach and Charlotte Center City Partners.
He is a past board member and chair of Spirit Square Center for the Arts,
the Uptown YMCA and Charlotte Advocates for Education. He has also served on
the boards of the YMCA of Greater Charlotte, the United Way of Central
Carolinas, the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, Junior Achievement of
Charlotte, The Presbyterian Home at Sharon Towers, Alexander Children’s
Center, the Charlotte Regional Partnership, the UNCC Athletic Foundation and
Levine Museum of the New South.
A native of Charlotte, Keesler is a graduate of
Duke University and holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from
Wake Forest University’s Babcock Graduate School of Management. He and his
wife, Garrell, have a son, Andrew, and daughter, Anne Chambers.
Lee Keesler will be speaking at the McColl School
of Business on April 12, 2007
as part of the Leaders In Action Lecture Series. Please
RSVP by clicking here.
|
