Keith Cerny is an American opera director and businessman. From 2004 to 2007 he was executive director and CFO of the San Francisco Opera and from 2010 to 2018 he was general director of the Dallas Opera. In 2018 he was appointed general director of the Calgary Opera. He is also the former CEO of Sheet Music Plus (2008–2010), the world's largest interest-based sheet-music company. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley (B.A. in music and B.S. in physics), the

Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA p ...

(M.B.A.), and the Open University in the United Kingdom (Ph.D. in Economic Development Studies/Econometrics). He also studied conducting, voice, and accompanying at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and studied opera-accompanying in English National Opera's répétiteur training course. He also worked for

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for six years where he was a Senior Engagement Manager, and seven years with the consulting firm

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. He is also an executive board member for

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