Keating Resources CEO and Founder, Gerard Keating, announced that Nicole Kreitel, CPA joined Keating Resources on February 1 as Chief Financial Officer. “We are excited to find a highly experienced leader in Nicole to help lead the company in our growth plans. She will be responsible for all financial and operational actions of the company.”

Nicole earned her Bachelors of Science degree and MBA from the University of Nebraska Kearney and is a licensed Certified Public Accountant and Nebraska Real Estate Broker. After college, she worked for the Big Four accounting firm of KPMG (www.kpmg.com) in Omaha for 6 years rising to the position of Manager prior to being named Chief Financial Officer of Memorial Community Hospital and Health System (www.mchhs.org) in Blair Nebraska for two years. Nicole and her husband, Jeff, returned to her childhood hometown of Atkinson with the desire to raise their three children in a small town. For the last 5 years, Nicole has worked for the O’Neill office of Lincoln, NE based accounting firm of Dana Cole (www.danacole.com).

Keating said that Nicole fulfills the commitment made by him and his partner and son, Alec, to invest in people and property in rural America. Nicole will lead from a historic 100-year-old building the company is restoring in downtown Atkinson to open June 1. Keating said the availability of high-speed fiber currently being installed in all buildings in Atkinson was an important consideration to opening an office in Atkinson. The CFO function for the company has been completed in Omaha for the last 22 years.

Keating Resources invests in real estate in Texas, Florida, South Dakota, Wyoming, and Nebraska with an annual volume exceeding $30 million.

For more information regarding Keating Resources, please contact Gerard Keating at 402-925-5113 or gerard@keatingresources.com.