Keenan Raverty, a vice president at Bell Mortgage, is the new president and chairman of the board of the Minnesota Mortgage Association (MMA), a trade group that represents thousands of mortgage professionals statewide.

Raverty is currently the chair of the MMA Government Affairs Committee and sits as a member of the MMA board of governors. Raverty is also a past president and board chair of the Mortgage Bankers Association of Minnesota and the Mortgage Association of Minnesota (MAM), where he has worked for over five years.

The MMA was formed in 2007 when the MAM and the Minnesota Association of Mortgage Brokers merged.

Bell Mortgage is a division of Bell State Bank and Trust Bell Mortgage and is Minnesota's oldest and largest privately-owned mortgage-banking company. Raverty lives with his wife and four children in North Saint Paul.