UHAT - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Secretary
- Principal With Keating Investments
Anthony Francis "Chip" Keating III, has been a principal with Keating Investments, a real estate and oil and gas investment company, since March 2010. He is also a General Partner of Energy 11, L.P. and Energy Resources 12, L.P., both public, non-traded upstream oil and gas partnerships. He currently serves as a board member and immediate past president of The Children's Hospital Foundation, Secretary of University Hospitals Authority Trust appointed by the Pro Temp of the Oklahoma State Senate and a director of OU Medicine, Inc. Mr. Keating is also a Director and Gubernatorial appointee of The Oklahoma Law Enforcement Retirement System.
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. While at Chesapeake, Mr. Keating closed and transacted over $850 million in real estate transactions ranging from corporate headquarters, sale leasebacks, field offices, investment properties and raw land in urban natural gas plays for drill sites.
Prior to joining Chesapeake, Mr. Keating worked as a commercial real estate broker with Trammell Crow Company from August 2004 to March 2007. While at Trammell Crow Company, he specialized in tenant representation and investment sales. Before joining Trammell Crow Company, he spent just over three years as an Oklahoma State Trooper from May 2001 to August 2004.
Mr. Keating received a Bachelor of Business Administration from Southern Methodist University. Mr. Keating has been married to his wife Brittney for fourteen years and has three children, Callie, Frankie and Mary Katherine.
Ellen Buettner was appointed in 2023 by Governor J. Kevin Stitt as the Chief Executive Officer of the Oklahoma Health Care Authority (OHCA), Oklahoma's Medicaid agency.
Previously, Ellen served as the Chief of Staff for OHCA, leading hundreds of employees and directing the agency's administrative functions and core values of transparency, accountability, and operational excellence. Before joining OHCA, Ellen served as the Chief of Legislative Affairs for the Oklahoma Office of the Attorney General in 2018.
From 2008-2018, Ellen held various administrative positions in the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services: Assistant General Counsel, Director of Human Resources, and Senior Director of Government Relations and Public Accountability.
Ellen earned her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Juris Doctorate from the University of Oklahoma in 2004 and 2007 respectively. She later earned a Master's Degree in Administrative Leadership in 2015 and a PH.D. in Communication in 2020 from the University of Oklahoma.
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Member of the Board
- Lead Independent Director of BancFirst Corporation
- President of Marco Capital Group a Limited Partnership
G. Rainey Williams, Jr. is president of Marco Capital Group A Limited Partnership, a privately owned investment partnership operating in Oklahoma, Texas and the Southwestern United States. Marco has been an active private investor over the last 25+ years, investing in a broad number of private equity, real estate and other alternative investments. Williams has led Marco since it and its predecessors were established in 1989.
Williams serves as lead independent director of BancFirst Corporation and has served on the boards of numerous private companies such as American Trailer Works Inc., Benham Investment Holdings and Titan Spine, Inc.
Currently, he serves as chair of the University Hospitals Authority and Trust, is Chair of OU Health, Inc and serves as Chair of the Investment Committee of Presbyterian Health Foundation, Inc.. Williams has served as an adjunct professor in the graduate program (MBA) at Price College of Business at the University of Oklahoma. He is a former chairman of the YMCA Retirement Fund in New York, the YMCA of Greater Oklahoma City, the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma and has served as Senior Warden of All Souls' Episcopal Church. He has also held significant offices and/or board positions for numerous charitable organizations on and off the Oklahoma Health Center campus including Dean McGee Eye Institute, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, the United Way of Metro Oklahoma City and the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce.
Williams earned a B.B.A. degree in Finance from Southern Methodist University and a law degree from the University of Oklahoma College of Law.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Senior Vice President and Provost
Gary E. Raskob, PhD, is Senior Vice President and Provost at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, with overall responsibility for the educational and research programs of its seven colleges, and the Stephenson Cancer Center and the Harold Hamm Diabetes Center. He also serves on the Boards of the OU Health system and the University Hospitals Authority and Trust.
Dr. Raskob has academic appointments in the College of Public Health, and the College of Medicine, as a Regents Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine. He began his career at the OU Health Sciences Center in 1991. His research and scholarly interests are in the prevention and treatment of deep-vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism; clinical trials and antithrombotic drug development; evidence-based medicine and public health; and the translation of research evidence into practice.
Dr. Raskob has participated extensively in clinical practice guideline development for several specialty organizations including the American Society of Hematology (ASH), the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), the American Thoracic Society (ATS), and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). He also served as a member of the external advisory panel on thrombosis and hemostasis for the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), and as an advisor on blood disorders to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He was the inaugural Chair of the Steering Committee for the World Thrombosis Day initiative of the International Society in Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH), from 2013 through 2019, and he currently serves on the Board of Directors for the National Blood Clot Alliance (NBCA), the major patient advocacy organization in the United States for patients with venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism. He is author or co-author of more than 200 publications on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of thromboembolic disease, including 21 articles in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Dr. Raskob is a past Chair of the Board of Directors for the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health, the organization which represents more than 100 universities in the US and globally with accredited schools and programs in public health. He is active in public health service in his community, and is an immediate past Chair of the Oklahoma City-County Board of Health, which has oversight responsibility for the health department serving the 1.3 million residents of Oklahoma City-County.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Vice - Chairman
- Partner of Everest Brothers
Jim Everest joined the board of the University Hospitals Authority and Trust in 2005, appointed by state House of Representatives. He was elected Vice Chairman in January 2007.
Everest is a partner of Everest Brothers and White Tail Farm, as well as President of the Jean I. Everest Foundation.
A champion of our community, Everest devotes his time and energy to many local and statewide causes. He currently volunteers with the Metropolitan YMCA, the Metro Youth Development Foundation - 1stTee, the Oklahoma Health Center Foundation, Tree Bank Foundation, Catholic Charities, among others. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the United Way of Metro Oklahoma City.
Everest has won numerous awards, including: the Paragon Award from Leadership Oklahoma, the Mae Ruth Swanson Award from the YMCA, the McDaniel Award of Excellence from the Alzheimer's Association and the Arthritis Foundation Volunteer of the Year. Everest and wife Christy were also honored with the 1998 Dean's Award for Distinguished Community Service by the OU Medical Alumni Association.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Chief Executive Officer of the University Hospital
Randy Dowell serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the University Hospitals Authority and Trust. He was the Chief Financial Officer prior to his current appointment.
Before joining UHAT, he served the Oklahoma State Senate for seventeen years in numerous roles including Chief Operating Officer, Chief of Staff and Fiscal Staff Director.