KAS Consulting’s team of talented business minds has helped hundreds of companies in multiple industries strategically position themselves to be successful, while maintaining a strong focus on environmental consciousness. As a partnership, KAS brings a wealth of knowledge from decades of combined experience in diverse areas of business expertise.

Partners

Jim Kimo Storke, Managing Partner
KAS Consulting
Kimo is the creator, founder and owner of Green Energy Marketing and Green Energy Leasing , he has 20+ years of experience in management, business development and marketing. He is a complex B2B relationship architect, partner/channel strategy leader and relationship builder that connects strategy to market execution.
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Brian Greenman, CFO
Greenman Financial
Brian Greenman is a seasoned Chief Financial Officer who has been advancing renewable energy development projects under consulting and partnership arrangements since 2006.
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Carl Campagna, Renewables and Business Operations Consultant
Carl has over 20 years experience within the Engineering, Architecture and Construction as well as Manufacturing and Production Industries.
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Advisors

Michael Cress
Michael serves as Chairman and CEO of MD Cress & Associates, LLC, a national healthcare advisory firm that focuses on constructing effective business optimization, growth and acquisition strategies that support and expand key business objectives for organizations. Prior to MD Cress & Associates, LLC he served as the President and CEO of the Cornerstone Healthcare Group which owns and manages hospitals throughout the country. Mr. Cress also served as Senior Vice President of Business Development for Kindred Healthcare, a $4B publicly traded healthcare company that owns and operates hospitals, nursing homes, rehabilitation, pharmacy and other segments of the healthcare continuum. He served as the CEO of Vencor Hospital of San Diego and was also an Adjunct Professor for the Masters of Healthcare Administration program at the University of Kansas. Mr. Cress is an advisor to several companies to include Linley Capital, an international private investment firm based in NYC and the Stiefel Nicolauss healthcare research group based in Baltimore MD and serves on several boards to include Lift Up America, Rachel’s Challenge, and the American Heart Association. He is published and has been a national speaker on numerous healthcare business and clinical topics.

David Smith
As a noted futurist, technologist, and business leader, David brings more than 30 years of experience in digital convergence, strategic planning, and emerging technologies to the helm of HBMG. David has assisted in creating and implementing plans for Fortune 100 companies, emerging companies, universities, and government agencies, including Bank of America, Boeing, the CIA, Lockheed Martin, National Security Agency, Sun Microsystems, and the U.S. Department of Defense. In addition to being a senior research fellow at the University of Texas at Austin IC2 Institute, David was awarded the SEMATECH Eagle Award for a 1993 Strategic Plan and the Council of Consortia Award for Extraordinary contributions and Achievement in Technology Transfer.

Alan Kirchhoff
Alan is the Director of the State of Texas Emerging Technology Fund. In 2008 he was appointed by Governor Rick Perry as the Managing Fund Director for $500M Texas early stage technology investment fund. Today the fund has become the most active early stage fund in the country with over 130 portfolio technology companies and continues to invest in disruptive technologies in all sectors for the State of Texas. From May 2004 to August 2008 he was the deputy director of the ETF. He co-founded the Texas Emerging Technology Fund as the COO of the fund in it inception in 2005. The Texas Emerging Technology Fund was created in 2005 under HB1765 of the Texas legislation. An innovative approach by the state to fund early stage technology companies. The fund is unique model that has gained recognition as a premier national model. The fund works within a private/public partnership and takes an equity position in all its investments. Alan graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln specializing in Industrial Engineering. He also holds a BS from Doane College in mathematics, physics and accounting.

Patti Glaza
The Clean Technology and Sustainable Industries Organization (CTSI) is a not-for-profit membership organization with offices in Cambridge Massachusetts, San Francisco California, Detroit Michigan, Geneva Switzerland and Washington DC.