Bill Keefe

Assistant Deputy Director

Public Employee Retirement Administration Commission

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Bill Keefe is an Assistant Deputy Director at the Public Employee Retirement Administration Commission (PERAC), which provides regulatory oversight for the state’s 104 public retirement systems. He has responsibility for the Audit, Communications, and Compliance Units in addition to directing Legislative Affairs. 

Prior to PERAC, Bill worked at the State Auditor’s Office for 23 years, leaving as the Director of Audit Planning where he was responsible for a team that created and maintained the audit plan, researched to develop audit scopes, and worked with audit teams as a resource throughout the engagement.

After graduating from Syracuse, Bill started off in journalism. He is the proud father of a daughter and two sons. He doesn’t get enough grief on the job during the week, so he works as a hockey referee on weekends and still plays hockey.