Timothy Keller

Timothy Keller
Principal
Blue Stone Strategy Group

Through over a decade as a management consultant, successful entrepreneur, private equity fund partner and investment banker, Tim Keller has developed experience solving complex business problems for his clients.

Prior to joining Blue Stone Strategy Group, Keller was a senior manager with Booz & Company, a strategy firm focusing on organizational performance and change-management consulting for nonprofit, Fortune 500 and government clients. He advised clients on competitive dynamics, strategy under uncertainty, and strategic M&A. His intellectual capital work includes developing rapid response capabilities and contingency action plans using techniques from modern strategic maneuvering, people strategy and organizational performance. He also led projects on education reform, energy deregulation policy, and income sustainability across the industrial services, retail food and beverage, energy and oil and gas industries.

Keller spent three years as the first president and co-founder of Digital Divide Data – a firm combining IT consulting and social enterprise to benefit some of the world’s most disadvantaged communities. His work resulted in the establishment of the company based in Cambodia, where he also worked with World Bank and USAID in financial sector development, raising more than $1M in investments.

Since starting with Blue Stone Strategy Group, Tim has worked with 15 tribes around the country on a wide range of projects protecting sovereignty through economic development and effective government operations.  Keller has performed turnaround projects for various tribal business enterprises as well as tribal government restructuring and redesign work for tribes ranging in size from 200 members to 20,000.

Keller has served on several boards of directors including: the Albuquerque Southeast Team for Entrepreneurship, Open Hands Foundation, Road Runner Food Bank Capital Committee, Asian American Association, and the International Business Council. Keller serves as a citizen legislator in the New Mexico Senate, and has also lectured on government and business at Lewis University and UNM.

Keller studied finance at The University of Notre Dame, and earned his MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School.