Keith Costello is currently CEO of Icon Financial Holdings, Inc. an entity he has formed to start a de novo community bank in Fort Lauderdale, FL. He served as the President & CEO of First GREEN Bank, a community bank headquartered in Orlando, FL from May 2016 until its successful sale to Seacoast Banking Corporation of Florida in October 2018. The bank at the time of sale had $800 million dollars in assets and six branches in Central Florida and one in Fort Lauderdale. Prior to his role at First GREEN, he was president, CEO and an organizing director of Broward Bank of Commerce, one of the last banks chartered in Florida in January of 2009. The bank was successfully sold in 2014 to Centennial bank where Keith served as Division President for one year. He also had senior roles at Bank of Florida, City National Bank and Nations Bank.
He started his business career as a financial consultant at Merrill Lynch in 1987 after leaving active duty military service in the U.S. Army, where he attained the rank of Captain.
Keith holds a bachelor of science degree from the University of Tampa and an MBA from the University of Miami. He has his Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation and is a member of the CFA Institute. Keith has been involved in several local charities and organizations and served on Fort Lauderdale’s Economic Development Advisory Board, the Broward County Continuum of Care Board for the Homeless and served as chairman of the board of directors of the Greater Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce in 2017. He also served on the Board of Directors of the Broward Workshop and is currently a member of Vistage and the Alexis de Tocqueville Society of United Way.
