Socorro Partners

Keith Urtel is the Partner-in-charge of the firm’s Quality & Risk Management function. A retired Ernst & Young partner and current Associate Teaching Professor at Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, Keith is passionate about solving complex business issues through collaboration with his team and clients. While teaching various undergraduate and graduate accounting courses, Keith focuses on forensic examinations, M&A, and audit analytics. Having served as the lead partner on many worldwide audit and advisory engagements for large SEC registrants at Ernst & Young, Keith has extensive experience in the life science, technology, consumer products, and communications industries.

In addition to his significant SEC experience, Keith has worked with PE-backed and other private companies, including family-owned businesses, through complex audit and consulting engagements. His expertise includes technical accounting and financial reporting, internal control over financial reporting, financing transactions, IPO preparation, and corporate governance.

Keith, a New York and Florida-licensed CPA, has a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the Rochester Institute of Technology, and has completed executive education programs at Harvard Business School and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.