Featured Alumnus - Tim Keach

Tim Keach is a native of Henderson, Kentucky.  Beginning at a young age, he worked with his father raising horses, tending to the family farm and working in construction.  Tim’s father Dorris Keach began a small construction company in 1959.  However, Mr. Keach wanted his son Tim to live a life outside of the labors of the construction industry.  Mr. Keach encouraged his son to pursue a college education. Tim was familiar with the middle Tennessee area due to his involvement with walking horses in Shelbyville.  Thus, Tim enrolled in college at MTSU. 

While at MTSU, Tim pledged and was initiated into the Tennessee Beta Chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity in 1968.  He graduated from MTSU in the early 1970s with a pre-med degree. He immediately began working for Merck & Company as a pharmaceutical sales representative.  Tim always had an interest in joining his father’s construction business full-time. However, Mr. Keach told his college graduate son, “that wasn’t the deal.”  Nevertheless, after two years with Merck, Tim moved back to western Kentucky to help his father with the growing family construction business.  Several years later, Tim expanded the business to middle Tennessee, and he moved back to Murfreesboro.

Tim eventually became CEO and Chairman of the family construction business, now known as TDK Construction.  Tim has grown the business well beyond western Kentucky and middle Tennessee. Under Tim’s leadership over the last fifteen years, TDK has built multifamily projects throughout Tennessee, Alabama, Oklahoma, Florida and Texas.

Tim and his wife Pamela, also an MTSU graduate and Kappa Delta alumnae, continue to give back to their alma mater.  Tim sits on Middle Tennessee State University’s Development Board.  The Keach family has become one of the top supporters of MTSU and Blue Raider athletics.  Tim and Pamela live in Murfreesboro and have seven children between them: Katy, Bryan, John, Catherine, Corinne, Tess and eight-year-old Margaret Ann. 

Please join the Tennessee Beta Alumni Association in congratulating Tim on his personal and professional success.