Tim Keyes is the CEO of Keyes Capital, which manages their family’s investments in private equity, real estate, alternative investments, public equities and fixed income. Tim and his wife Laura are parents of a 2018 alumna and 2022 current student.

 

 

Prior to Keyes Capital, Tim worked at the family office of Lubar & Co., the private equity units of Robert W. Baird, software companies AIM Technologies and Trilogy, management consultant McKinsey & Co. and investment bank Morgan Stanley, among others.  

 
Tim currently serves on the Board of Directors at Shield Air Solutions, Propep Surgical, and Dundee Football Club.  He also serves as an Advisor to prescriptive analytics company Ayata. 

 

He also serves on the St. Michael's Corporate Governance Committee, Tuition Committee and the HALO Committee, and has been involved with Crusader Nation and Sader Dads.

 

Tim was also heavily involved at St. Gabriel’s Catholic School.  He served on the Board of Trustees for six years, including three years as Chairman, plus a seventh year on the Finance Committee, and is still on the Audit Committee. He is also a former Trustee of Marquette University High School.

 

He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Quantitative Economics from Stanford University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

James Poer is CEO of KFI, a network of five financial firms united in their commitment to deliver a full end-to-end suite of wealth management solutions for financial advisors including investment platforms, technology services, and back-office support. He oversees the long-term strategic direction of the company, aligning the unique capabilities of each entity comprising KFI to work in concert empowering advisors to create an exceptional end-client experience. KFI includes Kestra Investment Services, Kestra Advisory Services, Kestra Private Wealth Services, Arden Trust, H. Beck, and Bluespring Wealth Partners, which oversees the operations over a dozen additional investment adviser and wealth management subsidiaries of the company. Recognizing the importance of remaining responsive to the needs of advisors, James drives the continuous evolution of the business’s technology and service platforms. He also directs all M & A transactions, ensuring continuity of the company’s cultural integrity.

 

Since joining NFP Advisor Services Group in 2003, James has leveraged his leadership and experience to bring the business to new levels of unprecedented growth. He led the spin out of the Advisor Services Group from NFP in 2016, creating Kestra Financial and taking the company independent. Through the strategic growth of affiliated independent advisor firms, the company’s assets under advisement have grown to over $100 billion. With his support of an innovative, open architecture platform, James continues to position KFI as a leader in the independent financial services space, increasing the company’s advisor count to over 2,300 affiliated financial advisors. Prior to joining KFI, James held marketing and product development roles for two asset management companies and served as director of Advisory Services for two AIG RIAs.

 

James received his Bachelor of Science from Texas Christian University and completed the Securities Industry Institute program at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business School. He has more than 25 years of experience in the financial services industry and serves on the board of directors for Kestra Financial Holdings and the Financial Services Institute. James is a licensed registered representative holding FINRA Series 7, 24, 63, and 65 licenses.

Tom Prevost started serving on the St. Michael's Assets Committee as a non-trustee in 2020 and joined the Board in 2021 and still serves on the Assets Committee. He and his wife Lou have three children, two are alumni of SMCA and both are attending Texas A&M and their youngest is currently a St. Michael's sophomore.

Tom has 20 years of engineering management experience in the field of hazardous waste remediation and treatment system design. Tom was a principal at his last consulting firm and was responsible for the establishment and management of the agricultural services division within the firm. He and his team contracted with USDA to provide engineering and nutrient application recommendations for animal livestock facilities and producers across the western US.  For the last 10 years, Tom has invested in various asset classes in commercial real estate both domestically and internationally.  Tom is a member of the management board for a small company invested in agriculture in South America.

Tom served on the Catholic School Advisory Committee for their children’s K-8 Catholic school, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, in Elk Grove, California. Tom is currently a parishioner of St. John Neumann parish and is a member of the Knights of Columbus Council at that parish. Tom is a member of Legatus of Austin.

He received his BS in Environmental Engineering from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and his MBA from California State University Sacramento.

Keili Smith joined the SMCA Board in 2019. She and her husband Ted have four children: Molly and Anna Claire are alumnae of St. Michael’s, Mason is a current St. Michael's student, and Danny is in middle school at St. Austin Catholic School, where Keili served as Director of Admissions and Events for several years. Being a dedicated volunteer at St. Austin for over 15 years, Keili has served as St. Austin City Lights Gala Chair, Grandparent’s Day inaugural Chair, Parent Ambassador, Booster Club President and Room Parent. In 2018, Keili and Ted were the recipients of the Education Service Award by the Diocese of Austin.

Keili attended Catholic elementary, high school and college, earning a degree in Communications at Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana in 1991. Before having children, Keili was the Assistant to the Head of Lower School and Admissions Director at Norwood School in Bethesda, Maryland. Keili has served on the Elizabeth Ann Seton Board, Helping Hand Home for Children, Catholic Charities of Central Texas SEEDS Board, Westminister Presbyterian Day School Board and is a member of the University of Notre Dame Monogram Club.

Since joining the St. Michael’s community, Keili has served as Crusader Nation President, Crusader Fund Committee Member, Project Graduation Homecoming Mum Fundraising Chair, Cheer Team Parent, and volunteered at many SMCA events.

Leslie Suffoletta earned her M.B.A. degree from the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University in 1990. She graduated from the University of California, Davis with a B.A. in International Relations in 1986 (with Honors). From 1990 to 1993, she held various corporate finance positions, reporting directly to the CFO. From 1993 to 1996 at Calpine Corporation, a public company in the independent power industry, she developed long-term financial models to analyze potential investment and development projects in the energy industry, optimized ownership alternatives and financing arrangements, and made recommendations to the corporate investment committee. She went on to work as a controller for The Vantive Corporation, a public company in the software industry. At Vantive, Leslie managed the corporate-wide annual budget and planning process and worked closely with senior executives in sales and marketing until mid-1998.

 

Leslie served on the St. Gabriel’s Catholic School board of trustees from 2006 to 2012. She also served on the facilities committee, on the finance committee (for seven years), on the audit committee, as chair of the Head of School search parent advisory committee, and as corporate secretary (for four years). At St. Michael’s, Leslie has served on the finance/assets committee since 2013 and as a Crusader Nation team parent for academic competitions. For eight years, Leslie has also been a volunteer tutor - first for AISD, and now at the Cathedral School of St. Mary's.

 

Leslie and her husband, Rob, have two children who have attended SMCA. James graduated from Rice University and Thomas attends Northwestern University. The Suffolettas are members of St. Theresa parish.