Patrick M. O’Keefe is the Founder and CEO of O’Keefe, a transactional strategic and financial advisory firm. Mr. O’Keefe is recognized as an expert in the fields of strategic advisory services, corporate reorganization, turnaround consulting, valuation, and litigation support. Mr. O’Keefe has been approved by the U.S. Department of Justice to act as a Chapter 11 trustee and has performed as a court appointed receiver for numerous operating companies. He is currently serving as receiver for Finlandia University, a cannabis operation, and has been appointed by the Securities and Exchange Commission to be receiver in a real estate company. Mr. O’Keefe is also the CEO of Grow Michigan, a mezzanine fund providing growth capital to the Michigan Small Business Community and served as CEO of Glycadia, a diabetes research company.

Mr. O’Keefe was a former partner at Deloitte & Touche where he was in charge of the Detroit offices Middle Market department and sat on the firm’s National Industry Committee for real estate and was designated as an industry specialist for high technology.

Mr. O’Keefe served on the Board of Trustees for Michigan State University. He also served on the Michigan State University Foundation Board of Directors and the Michigan State University Investment Advisory Subcommittee for the Endowment. He was the 100th President of the Detroit Athletic Club and a past President of the Detroit Chapter of the TMA including several years of service on the International Board. He recently served on the Board of Directors for First Independence Bank, a minority owned bank, the Advisory Council for M&A Advisor and is a member emeritus for the Michigan State University’s Department of Accounting and Information Systems, as well as a past advisory board member of the University of Detroit Turnaround Management Program, Cleary University, and Oakland University’s Finance and Accounting Department.

Recently, Mr. O’Keefe was recognized by the Detroit Chapter of TMA for the Lifetime Achievement award for his ongoing extraordinary efforts in turnaround and restructuring. He was inducted into M&A Advisor’s Hall of Fame which recognizes extraordinary industry stalwarts. In December 2018, he was named the recipient of the Executive of the Year Award by The Detroit Executives Association, and received the 2018 M&A Advisor Leadership Award for his contribution to the bankruptcy and restructuring industry. Mr. O’Keefe has been named Detroit 500 as one of the most influential businessmen in Detroit by DBusiness for the past 7 years. Some of his past awards include, but are not limited to, the Outstanding Individual Contribution Award by the TMA, the Cleary Business Medal of Honor as an outstanding businessman, and the Small Business Administration’s Financial Services Champion of the Year Award presented by former Governor Jennifer Granholm.

Mr. O’Keefe graduated Cum Laude from Michigan State University in Accounting and received his MBA from Wayne State University.