Over the next twenty years Newt founded a marketing/media firm in New Orleans; then another marketing firm, plus financial services and software companies in Dallas, all of which he ultimately sold to public companies or private investors. He moved to Austin in 1992.

Currently Newt serves as Managing Partner of BizTech LLC, which provides management, governance, fundraising and M&A services to U. S. companies, many based on intellectual property developed at American universities. He serves as active chairman of Texas Multicore Technologies, formed to commercialize a revolutionary software scripting tool developed by Texas Tech University for NASA that compiles to C++ as fully parallelized code, enabling effective use of multi-core processors. In addition Newt serves as a director and advisor to retail services, bioscience, information technology, aerospace, food products, and new media companies, and is helping resurrect the Windecker Eagle, the world’s first composite airplane. Newt served on the organizing board of a pre-seed venture capital fund tied to technologies from the Texas Tech University System; and is chairman of Group NIRE, the for-profit arm of the National Institute for Renewable Energy.

In the past Newt has founded, or served as CEO or director of private and public companies in the software, hardware, marketing consulting, financial services, bioscience, medical research, third party logistics and specialty foods industries. In 2005 he co-founded Westlake Securities, a leading Austin-based boutique investment bank. Separate from the investment bank Newt has been involved in raising more than $250 million in growth capital for private companies and has provided M&A advisory services for a dozen companies. His value proposition includes strong leadership and management, a clear understanding of sales and marketing, recruiting access to accomplished executives in every corporate function, access to capital resources, and a network of global and local leaders and advisors from nearly every industry.

Prior to his graduate studies Newt received a BA degree from Mississippi State University where he was an honor student active in many academic and leadership organizations. He has been a lifelong supporter of higher education initiatives, and has advised several universities. He is also an active supporter of community, healthcare, charity and arts initiatives. He has celebrated nearly 46 years of marriage to Dr. Judy L. Hamlin, who retired as a leading authority and author of 15 books pertaining to small group Bible study prior to launching her restaurant website FoodHawk.com.

His expertise ranges from strategic planning, business development, deal structuring, and financial management services aimed to grow enterprises from concept to commercialization and business sale. His renewable energy industry experience covers wind power, solar power, energy storage, biofuels and water treatment technologies.

He is an accomplished senior executive leader having served four businesses as their Chief Financial Officer for high growth successful real estate companies in the hotel, resorts, private residence clubs, shopping center and movie theater industries. Previous roles include Director of Financial Accounting at Hyatt Corporation for the Pritzker family in Chicago and Chief Financial Officer of Exclusive Resorts, LLC for Steve Case in Denver.

He began his career as an auditor for the public accounting firm of Laventhol & Horwath in Chicago. Mr. Greenman is a business leader in his community serving as President of renewable energy organizations and is a speaker at many statewide events. He lives in Denver, Colorado, is a LEED AP in sustainable building design, a Certified Public Accountant, and earned his Accountancy, B.S. degree in 1984 from Northern Illinois University. Brian is currently the Principal and founder of Greenman Financial Advisors, LLC

In 2010 He was responsible for the business development advisory work which resulted in the largest solar project financing in history a $1.5 Billion dollar project value. The groups he partners with have funded over $12 Billion dollars of projects in US and offshore projects in the areas of conventional and renewable energy. He is an advisory board member at the Clean Technology Sustainable Industries Organization www.ct-si.org. He is also on the leadership team of the Texas Greenbelt Coalition www.texasgreenbelt.com.

Kimo was a Global Offering Manager at IBM for 3 years working as a Global Offering Manager and as a team member was partly responsible for $450 million dollars in revenue for IBM. He was also a Regional Manager of Business Development at RSM McGladrey for 4 years, the seventh largest accounting/consulting firm in the nation. He specialized in the areas of Software as a Service (SaS), and knowledge management with Lotus Notes.

Lastly, Kimo served in the US ARMY as a sergeant in charge of aircraft electronics in the maintenance and support of 15-20 UH-60 Blackhawk Helicopters at Schofield Barracks Hawaii and the 101st Airborne Division in Ft. Campbell Kentucky.

He is a graduate of Trinity Evangelical University in Deerfield Illinois. He lives in Austin Texas with his wife and two daughters. He enjoys mentoring others, reading, racquetball and windsurfing.