Jim Keller's 20-year record of enthusiastic volunteer leadership at UVM has demonstrably enhanced the Grossman School of Business, the university and the UVM Foundation.

He has been an active and energetic member of the Grossman School's Board of Advisors since 2005, including serving as chair for many years and as co-chair of the fundraising effort to build Ifshin Hall, the first building on campus to be funded 100% by private philanthropy. Jim was a founding member of the UVM Foundation Board of Directors and served as chair from 2017 to 2020. In a further act of devotion to UVM, following his role as board chair, he made an extraordinary gesture to step in as interim President and CEO of the UVM Foundation from January 2021 to June 2022.

Jim earned a degree in mechanical engineering at UVM and an MBA from Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business. He is president of Green Mountain Business Consultants and managing partner of Barons Winery in Walla Walla, Washington. He spent 33 years at Weyerhaeuser, a premier timber, land, and forest products company, and retired in 2008 as senior vice president for containerboard, packaging, and recycling. Jim and his wife Judy have been generous supporters of initiatives across the university, including the Grossman School's educational programs in finance, the Family Enterprise Case Competition, and the Ifshin Hall project.

Their son James graduated from UVM in 2003 and also serves on the Grossman School Board of Advisors. The Kellers live in Alpine, Wyoming, but still think of Vermont as home and make many visits each year.