Anthony Francis "Chip" Keating, III has been a principal with Keating Investments, a real estate, oil & gas and technology investment company, since March 2010.  He is a co-founder and Managing Director of VEX Energy, an operated and non-operated oil and gas company, predominantly focused in and around basins in the lower 48.  He was also formerly a General Partner of Energy 11, L.P., and Energy Resources 12, L.P., both public, non-traded upstream oil and gas partnerships in the Bakken Shale.  Mr. Keating served a 2-year commitment as Governor Stitt's Cabinet Secretary of Public Safety for the State of Oklahoma.  He is the Founder and President of the Oklahoma State Troopers Foundation, Secretary of University Hospitals Authority Trust appointed by the Pro Temp of the Oklahoma State Senate and a director of OU Health.  Mr. Keating also served as a Director and Gubernatorial appointee of the Oklahoma Law Enforcement Retirement System, is the past president and board member of the Salvation Army and the Children's Hospital Foundation.  Prior to founding Keating Investments, Mr. Keating served as the Real Estate Development Manager for Chesapeake Energy Corporation in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma from March 2007 to March 2010.  Prior to joining  Chesapeake, Mr. Keating worked as a commercial real estate broker with Trammell Crow Company from August 2004 to March 2007.  Before joining Trammell Crow Company, he spent just over three years as an Oklahoma State Trooper from May 2001 to August 2004 and is a graduate of the 53rd Oklahoma Highway Patrol Academy.  Mr. Keating received a Bachelor of Business Administration from Southern Methodist University.  Mr. Keating has been married to his wife, Brittney, for nineteen years and has three children: Callie, Frankie and Mary Katherine.