Mark A. Keeley

Mark A. Keeley has been an advocate for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities for over 40 years. He joined the St. Louis Arc in 1989 as Assistant Director of Residential Services. In 1995, Mark designed the agency’s current family reimbursement respite model, which has grown to be one of the largest in the country in terms of number of families served and hours of respite accessed. In 2008, Mark was promoted to Vice President of Support Services and oversaw Children’s Services, Family Support, Leisure, Employment Services and Quality Enhancement. During his time as Vice President, he helped facilitate the merger with the Belle Center in 2012 to form the Belle Children’s Services of the St. Louis Arc. Mark became President and CEO of the St. Louis Arc in July 2015. In 2021, Mark received the Executive Excellence award from the Arc of the US National Conference of Executives in recognition of his leadership. A licensed clinical social worker, he holds a master’s degree in social work from the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University.