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Keith Desserich
Keith Desserich is a entrepreneur, author and cancer research advocate. He is currently based in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 2007, he co-founded The Cure Starts Now Foundation with his wife, Brooke Desserich, in pursuit of a homerun cure for cancer, starting with pediatric brain cancers. By 2015, The Cure Starts Now Foundation had grown to 25 chapter operations worldwide and raised over $6 million for cancer research.

In 2009, he co-wrote and published "Notes Left Behind", a memoir to his late daughter Elena Desserich who passed away from brain cancer at the age of 6. The book would later be named as a New York Times Bestseller and published in over 19 foreign language editions. A portion of the proceeds benefited The Cure Starts Now Foundation.

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1 Early life 2 Personal life 3 Business Interests 4 Philanthropy 5 Honors Early life

Keith Desserich was born to Dennis and Mary Jo Desserich in Cincinnati, Ohio. His father was a co-owner of a second generation family residential cleaning company that Keith Desserich would later purchase from his father and uncle in 2006 and 2015. His mother was controller of that same family business. Both his mother and father retired in the face of the continued diagnosis of his mother with cancer, one of the motivations cited for Desserich's advocacy.

Personal life

Keith Desserich in 1998 would marry Brooke Baumgardner. Together they would have three children, Elena, Grace and Nina. The eldest, Elena Desserich, would later be diagnosed with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma cancer at the age of 5. She would lose her battle 9-months later in 2007. In tribute to his daughter, the Desserichs spent Elena's final 9-months writing daily journals about the lessons she taught him to pass on to her younger sister Grace, who was only 3 at the time. They referred to them privately as "notes left behind", a name that would later become the title of the book. Sometimes, Elena herself would write with her father notes to send home to Grace. Initially the notes were private but after posting to the internet to communicate with family, they quickly received widespread attention, ultimately leading Desserich to self-publish a version with proceeds benefiting cancer research.

After Elena's passing, Brooke and Keith began to find notes hidden by Elena around their house, apparently as her own way of creating notes left behind. As attention to her actions grew, interest in the book increased, leading to the publishing of the book with Harper Collins Publishers in the U.S.

In 2011, Desserich collaborated with his daughter Grace Desserich to write a children's book titled "Rita the Boot-Neck Girl." Self published, it was based on stories shared between Grace and her late sister during their rides to school in the morning. It was illustrated by Joshua Thompson.

Business Interests

Desserich graduated with a BA from Miami University with a business degree in 1996. After graduating he joined the family business, ultimately founding a separate restoration and remodeling business named RestorAid in 2000 after two failed attempts at developing these service lines within the existing family business. He currently owns both RestorAid and the family cleaning business.

In 2005, RestorAid was honored with the Torch Award for Ethics from the Cincinnati Better Business Bureau and then recognized as a semi-finalist for the International Torch Award in 2006. Desserich and his businesses were recognized as a Family Business of the Year for Community Service in 2006 by the University of Cincinnati Goering Center for Entrepreneurship. In 2010, RestorAid was recognized as a "Big 50" remodeler by Remodeling Magazine.

Philanthropy

Desserich is a noted cancer research advocate, co-founder and Chairman of The Cure Starts Now Foundation with locations worldwide. As of 2015, it has funded over 36 independent grants for cancer research around the world.

In 2011, Desserich created the DIPG Collaborative, in association with Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the Ann and Robert Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. Soon the Collaborative would grow to include over 20 other independent cancer research foundations joining to improve collaboration, improve transparency and eliminate duplication in the search for cures for diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma. The DIPG Collaborative holds a regular symposium every two years to promote innovative cancer research strategies. Attendance is typically limited to 150 participants or less and includes attendance from foundations, families and researchers. The most recent meeting was in spring of 2015 in Chicago.

Honors

In 2012 Desserich was recognized as a "40 Under 40" by the Cincinnati Business Courier. In 2015, he received with his wife the prestigious Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Award for Public Service by the Jefferson Award Foundation. Kdesserich (talk) 11:01, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

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