Keith Mabee
Vice Chairman

Keith V. Mabee is vice chairman of Dix & Eaton, the largest employee-owned public relations and investor relations firm in the U.S.  Mr. Mabee is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and its Board.  He joined Dix & Eaton as senior executive vice president in April 1997 and was promoted to president 18 months later.

Drawing on nearly 30 years of experience in the United States and overseas, Mr. Mabee leads the firm’s Transaction Communications practice, oversees the delivery of client service, supervises a number of major corporate accounts and provides senior-level strategic counsel to senior management teams and boards of directors.  He has extensive experience in a wide range of industries, including handling complex shareholder activism, divestiture, IPO, and merger and acquisition actions; dealing with crisis communications from national product recalls to major plant closures; launching change management programs to support strategic initiatives; and conceiving and implementing strategic communications underpinning corporate restructuring, global branding, business development, legislative and regulatory initiatives, takeover defenses, proxy solicitations, debt and equity offerings, management reorganizations, and product and service launches.

Previously, Mr. Mabee served as vice president - corporate relations for Figgie International, Inc., where he was responsible for human resources and administration, corporate communications, government affairs and investor relations.  Before joining Figgie International in 1993, he served as vice president - communications at Industrial Indemnity, a $1 billion San Francisco-based Xerox Financial Services Company.  Previously, he was senior vice president, corporate communications with AMFAC, Inc., a former Fortune 50 diversified services company based in San Francisco, where he was responsible for corporate communications, government affairs and investor relations.  Mr. Mabee has also served as a communications specialist with International Paper Company in New York, and as a public affairs officer for NATO and the U.S. Army in Europe and the Pacific.  He was a senior lecturer in the Queensland University of Technology’s College of Management in Australia and served as an organizational effectiveness consultant in Australasia.

Mr. Mabee received a master's degree in business administration from Pepperdine University, a master's degree in sociology from Wayne State University, and a bachelor's degree in journalism from Bowling Green State University.  He is a former president of the San Francisco chapter of the National Investor Relations Institute, previously served as an officer and director of NIRI’s national board and as chairman of NIRI’s Senior Roundtable, and currently serves on the steering committee of NIRI’s Center for Strategic Communication and Reputation Management.   He is an accredited member of the Public Relations Society of America, serves on  PRSA’s Board of Ethics and Professional Standards, and advises on faculty visiting committees for James Madison University and Cleveland State University.   Mr. Mabee also served as a founding trustee and lecturer for the San Francisco Academy, a postgraduate executive development program in communications, and as a trustee and board vice chair for the $6 billion Ohio Tuition Trust Authority.  He is a frequent national speaker on shareholder activism, strategic communications, investor relations and corporate governance.