James J. McGraw, Jr. is the President and Chief Executive Officer of KMK Consulting and a member of its Board of Directors. Jim is also a Corporate Partner of Keating, Muething & Klekamp, P.L.L., the parent of KMK Consulting. His background is centered in business development, public utilities, insurance and not-for-profit organizations. Jim’s clients include national and international firms in the areas of real estate, manufacturing, energy, and technology. He has been actively involved in business and related client consulting for 30 years.
Jim focuses on corporate acquisitions and dispositions along with a variety of strategic work for clients which include organizational design, leadership development, capital structuring, public/private partnerships, performance benchmarking, strategic planning and negotiation of incentives to attract, retain and grow business. Jim has met with more than 3,000 CEOs and senior executives in the course of his work and has also directed funding initiatives for clients totaling in excess of $450 million.
Jim is a nationally recognized consultant in the area of economic development. He has worked in over 70 cities and regions across the U.S., helping community and business leaders design and build some of the country’s leading economic development organizations. He has been instrumental in the growth of these organizations in such markets as Baton Rouge, Baltimore, Buffalo, Charlotte, Cincinnati, Honolulu, Ft. Worth, Irvine (CA), Jacksonville, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Memphis, Omaha, Orlando, Phoenix, Rochester, San Francisco, Scottsdale, St. Louis, Tampa and Washington, D.C. Jim is an active member of the International Economic Development Council and related regional associations.
Previously, Jim was regulatory trial counsel for the Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co. and served on active duty with Air Force J.A.G. at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. Jim holds an accounting degree from The University of Notre Dame and a law degree from The University of Akron. He is a member of the Board of Directors of BIO/START, the Cincinnati region’s bio-technology business incubator. He is also a member of the International Who’s Who of Professionals, the Empire Who’s Who and serves on the Boards of numerous privately held businesses, civic and charitable organizations. Jim was noted by his peers as an Ohio Super Lawyer for 2005. Jim also serves on the National Advisory Board for Executive Education at Notre Dame’s Mendoza School of Business and was recognized with Notre Dame’s Distinguished Alumni Award in 2003. He resides in Cincinnati with his wife Anne. They have four daughters.
jmcgraw@kmkconsulting.com
