Keith Ely now serves as President but joined Passport Health Communications in 1996 as Vice President of Operations.

Prior to joining Passport, he served as Vice President of Operations for Network Data Corporation where he was responsible for the implementation of software products for the convenience store industry.  He was instrumental in the rollout of a point-of-sale system that was installed in more than 1,000 locations nationwide. Prior to Network Data, he was Vice President of Operations for a division of Schlumberger, Inc.

He started his career as a design engineer with Texas Instruments.  He has an undergraduate degree in Electronics Engineering as well as an MBA.