Keith is a designer, artisan, storyteller, amateur photojournalist, former Naval Officer, and world-traveling pilot.  He is currently a CEO of kgordon.design, yet hails originally from Somerset, NJ where he began a journey and matriculated into USNA in 1988, at the impervious age of 17.  He proceeded to cut his teeth as a Naval aviator for 20 years, and served faithfully until his honorable discharge on his 42nd birthday at the rank of Commander, where story begins anew.

    Design has always been his forte.  While touring the world before settling in MD, Keith created new designs for the Navy; it's people, their processes and their technologies.   Whether a new detachment logo or squadron patch, a cutting-edge tactic for naval helicopter pilots, a Fleet process, diplomatic response or a combat operation, and even clear, conceptual approaches for the future in the USN's highest level think-tank - Keith has a great user design experience story to relate, and the human-factors engineering to match.  

     After recently completing his 4th and 5th graduate degrees, with a MA in Design from MICA (America's oldest and most venerable Art institution), and a MBA from Johns Hopkins, Keith is now consulting, speaking and designing unique approaches to navigate complex topics that challenge his business clients.  He also serves as the director of Strategy and Innovation for a non-profit, working on national security endeavors, while he is franchising a technology business incubator system, which he designed, branded, and advanced in Maryland to create a tech-startup ecosystem.

     In his "spare" time, he might be seen with his family, his dogs, his clubs, his camera, or his community - and/or - pursuing a hobby from logo design to landscaping.