The Owasso Chamber of Commerce Annual Meeting and Awards Luncheon will be held on Tuesday, January 13th, at the Tulsa Tech Conference Center in Owasso, 11:30am. Register Here.
Frank Keating is President and CEO of the American Bankers Association. The ABA is a 135 year old association that represents banks of all sizes and charters and is the voice for the nation’s $13 trillion banking industry and its two million employees.
Keating became ABA’s president and CEO on January 1, 2011 following seven years of service as the President and CEO of the American Council of Life Insurers and after serving two terms as Oklahoma’s 25th Governor.
As the Governor of Oklahoma, Keating won national acclaim in 1995 for his compassionate and professional handling of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City. In the aftermath of the tragedy, he raised more than six million dollars to fund scholarships for the nearly 200 children left with only one or no parents. His accomplishments as Governor include winning a public vote on right-to-work, tort reform, tax cuts, major road building and education reform.
Keating is also the author of four award-winning children’s books, biographies of Will Rogers, Theodore Roosevelt, George Washington, and Standing Bear, the Ponca Indian chief who argued Native Americans deserve the same rights as white Americans. He is the recipient of six honorary degrees.
He and his wife Cathy live in McLean, Virginia. They have three children and ten grandchildren.
