Keith is Chair of Industry Wales and was the Founder and Exec Chair of the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland and Advanced Forming Research Centre at the University of Strathclyde. He is now the Senior Executive Manufacturing at the University of Strathclyde.
Keith was the co-founder of AMRC at the University of Sheffield and was the Executive Dean from 2000-2019. In 2012 he established the Nuclear AMRC and AMRC Training Centre and led the expansion of the AMRC with new Centres in North Wales and Preston. When Keith left in 2019, the AMRC employed almost 700 people and had a turnover of £80 million per annum.
Keith was awarded an OBE for services to UK manufacturing industry in June 2005 and a CBE for services to UK manufacturing industry in January 2012. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the City of Guilds London Institute, and the Royal Institute of Naval Architects. In 2012 he was awarded Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Aeronautical Society.
Keith is an independent Governor of Sheffield Hallam University and a Member of the Prime Ministers Council for Science and Technology.