Joseph Keithley is the former chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer of Keithley Instruments, Inc., a Cleveland-based provider of advanced electrical instrumentation for the electronics industry. Mr. Keithley joined Keithley Instruments, Inc. in 1976 and held various positions in production, customer service, sales and marketing prior to being elected Vice President of Marketing in 1986. He has an extensive, broad-based international business and executive management and leadership experience from his leadership roles at Keithley Instruments, Inc.
Mr. Keithley also has extensive public company board and governance experience. He served as Non-Executive Chairman and Independent Director of Nordson Corporation. He has also been an Independent Director at Materion Corporation and Axcelis Technologies Inc. He has served as a Director of Cleveland Foundation and a Trustee of ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½. He and his wife, Nancy, have endowed the Keithley Fund for Artistic Collaboration to support the Cleveland Orchestra’s collaborations with other major institutions in northeast Ohio, and particularly with the Cleveland Museum of Art. The gift will provide short-term funding for annual artistic collaboration and provide a portion of endowment funding for the Cleveland Orchestra’s long-term goal of fully endowing artistic collaboration. In 2013, the couple funded the Nancy and Joseph Keithley Institute for Art History, a collaborative doctoral program between ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ and the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Mr. Keithley graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in 1971 and a Master of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering in 1972. He received an MBA with distinction from the University of Michigan in 1976.