Our Team

Liz Keating is the VP of Government Affairs & Advocacy where she will build coalitions to help advocate for more investment and growth throughout our region. Liz previously served on Cincinnati City Council where she was a proponent for housing, fiscal discipline, and innovation in government. Liz also served as Marketing Director for The Jim Stengel Company, a consultancy and think tank, and the team behind The CMO Podcast. Liz has a degree in Political Science – International Relations from UCLA, where she competed on the swim team and served as team captain.

Liz has also served her hometown of Cincinnati in numerous roles, including as a board member of OKI Regional Council of Governments, Talbert House, Downtown Cincinnati Improvement District, UC Lindner College of Business Advisory Board, Honor Flight Tri-State and Cincinnati Para-Swim Open.

Liz is a graduate of C-Change Class 6 and Leadership Cincinnati Class 46. She was honored as a 2016 Business Courier Forty Under 40 and the 2023 Senators Taft & Schuler Elected Official of the Year. Liz and her husband Jonathan Bennie live in Hyde Park with their two young kids and two fish – Princess Sparkle and Donut Donut Apple Juice Apple Juice.

Pete is our Vice President of Civic & Regional Partnerships. He is responsible for connecting the Cincinnati Chamber and its members to the region’s most pressing civic and regional initiatives. Pete leads the team working on existing Chamber initiatives such as the Connected Region, work focused on Embracing Growth and housing, the Cincinnati Futures Commission, and the Center for Research & Data.

As part of this work, Pete led the business community’s efforts to expand investments in transportation that connects people to jobs, education healthcare and all that the Cincinnati region has to offer. Pete has successfully advocated for local, state, and federal policies that have driven hundreds of millions of dollars into transportation projects across the Cincinnati region, including dedicated funding for Cincinnati Metro, the Brent Spence Bridge, Western Hills Viaduct, record state funding for public transit, investments in the CROWN trail network, and more.

In the community, Pete serves on the board of the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority (SORTA), the Corporation for Findlay Market, OKI Regional Council of Governments and as the Board President for NEST, Northside’s community development corporation. He lives in Clifton with his wife, Becca, and two daughters.