The Air Force took Keith to Tokyo some 30+ years ago and after 6 years in the service he began his studies at Sophia University. Keith raised a family, ran a business owner coaching company named COREBiz, and was a professor at a college in downtown Tokyo.
For many years Keith chaperoned his students to their Sister College in the United States. During these trips they often came to the beautiful seaside town of Sausalito. Keith told himself that he wanted to live here. That opportunity came in 2011 when he retired from his college and decided to return to the States. Not knowing one person in Sausalito, Keith and his wife Kayo came straight here to live. In 2013, Keith became involved in the Sausalito-Sakaide Sister City Program. In 2016, Keith headed the first Visiting Fellowship Program in which Sausalito sent a past delegate to Sakaide for three months to give special seminars to school children and community members about life in Marin and especially Sausalito.
Keith is a business owner coach that specializes in Exit Planning. His company COREBiz has clients in the Bay Area as well as in Japan. Needless to say, he spends a lot of his time between Sausalito and Tokyo. At the moment Keith is working on a project that will bring Japanese business owners to the Bay to help them establish a U.S. office.
Keith graduated from Sophia University with a degree in Cross Cultural Communications with a minor in business/economics and went on to get a Master of Arts from Columbia University’s Teachers College.