Keystone Appoints Christian Keane as CFO to Drive Global Growth

Keystone, a global technology and advisory firm specializing in economics, technology, strategy, and complex digital ecosystems, announced the appointment of Christian Keane as Chief Financial Officer. 

In this role, Keane will lead Keystone’s Finance organization, overseeing budgeting, planning, and reporting, and will partner with Keystone leadership to accelerate the company’s revenue and profit growth.

Keane’s appointment comes at a point of significant expansion for the company. In the past year Keystone has opened offices in London, Dubai and Washington, D.C. The firm recently launched AI Navigator, which helps global enterprises translate AI ambition into enterprise-wide transformation, and deepened its antitrust and competition practice with the addition of senior economists previously with the U.S. Department of Justice.

Keane joins Keystone with more than two decades of experience leading finance and operations at large, complex organizations. Most recently, he served as Deputy CFO and Head of Strategy & Operations at Gartner Inc., where he oversaw the firm’s corporate strategy, capital markets activity, and treasury and M&A functions. He has also been involved in significant M&A deals throughout his career, including Gartner’s $3.5 billion acquisition of Corporate Executive Board, Nokia’s $2.6 billion acquisition of Siemens’ stake in Nokia Siemens Networks and Nokia’s $7.2 billion divestiture of its mobile phone business to Microsoft. He is a former investment banker at Morgan Stanley, and began his career at AT&T in corporate finance. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.A. in Economics from Amherst College.