Joe Kelly
Executive Vice President
What Drives Me:
- Food and cooking
- Great evenings with friends
- Oceanside vacations
- Anything Italian, Spanish or Portuguese
- Brooklyn
- My wife Pat, daughter Kate and grandchildren Zach and Josephine.
Issues That Energize Me:
- Health promotion
- Environmental protection
- Microfinance
- Education
My Specialties:
- Contract management
- Strategic analysis and planning
- Writing
- Public messaging
- Marketing
My Proudest Professional Achievement:
- Becoming the Executive Vice President of Vanguard, the best company I’ve ever been associated with
When My Career Began:
- “The Monkees” and “Star Trek” premiered on TV.
- The Baltimore Orioles won their first World Series.
- Kwanzaa was first celebrated.
- Medicare began.
- “The Sound of Music” won the Academy Award® for Best Picture.
- Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” became a best-seller.
Other Stuff About Me:
- I dazzle Thai food servers with command of their language.
- I toured the United States with the Notre Dame Glee Club.
- I rode the lead elephant in a herd of more than 100 for two days.
- I had the good fortune to be one of the original Common Cause staff.
- I published a book, believe it or not, with Joseph T. Kelley.
