Bob E. Keith

Bob E. Keith

Chief Executive Officer at TL Ventures, Inc.

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Bob is one of the co-founders of TL Ventures.
Prior to that, his 22-year career at Fidelity Bank in Philadelphia, a leading regional commercial financial institution, saw an ever-increasing level of responsibilities.
He oversaw significant growth and market expansion during his tenure as well as entry into new service markets such as investment banking, where he recruited Mark DeNino, his future partner at TL.
While at the bank, Bob provided funding for the Delaware Valley Venture Group, predecessor of the Greater Philadelphia Venture Group.
He left the bank in 1989 to become a venture-capitalist, at which time he was Vice Chairman responsible for most of the bank's commercial lending and non-banking subsidiaries.
Bob served on the board of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) from 2000 to 2004.
He served as a director and chairman of the board of Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. (NYSE: SFE) helping to guide the company thru the challenging transition from the excess of the late 1990s.
Bob also served on the board of directors of Internet Capital Group, Inc. ((now Actua Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTA)) from 1996 until 2010 and was Chairman from inception until 2001.
Bob was formerly chairman of the board of The Reinvestment Fund, a $400 million not-for-profit community investment institution in the mid-Atlantic region, which focuses on rehabilitating neighborhoods, real estate, charter school lending, and renewable energy.
He also served as chairman of Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania, a seed-stage financing source, funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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Chief Executive Officer 1988-12-31
Investment Committee Member 2012-01-03
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Director/Board Member 2010-01-19
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FS KKR CAPITAL CORP. II Director/Board Member 2018-09-26
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Amherst College Undergraduate Degree
Temple University (Pennsylvania) Graduate Degree

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