Keely advises clients on reputation management, brand building and profile-raising initiatives.

With a decade of combined agency and in-house experience in strategic communications, Keely leverages her diversified expertise in internal and external communications and media relations to amplify the brand presence of her clients.

Previously, she served as a Director at Red Banyan, a crisis management firm, where she worked alongside the CEO to develop and implement communications strategies for her multisector clients.

Prior to that, Keely was the Assistant Vice President of Media Relations & Corporate Communications for the Americas at BNP Paribas, a European bank, responsible for creating, leading, and advising on communications for the Bank’s Executive Committee, Asset Management, Bank of the West, Diversity and Inclusion, Global Markets, Sustainable Finance, and Technology groups.

Keely also worked at communications advisory firms Brunswick Group and Abernathy MacGregor, executing communications strategies specifically for investment management firms such as Aquiline Capital Partners, BNY Mellon Investment Management, Canyon Partners, Jane Street, Rothschild & Co., TowerBrook Capital Partners and TIAA.

She received her B.A. in English and American Literature from New York University and completed a Sustainability Essentials for Business certificate from the University of Cambridge.