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Bio

Brian Greenman, Principal and Founder of Greenman Financial Advisors, has been advancing renewable energy development projects under consulting and partnership arrangements since 2006. He is skilled in strategizing with early stage developers and entrepreneurs, securing co-development and strategic partners, arranging project finance and investors, debt refinancings, and business sales and acquisitions. He works closely with many entrepreneurial alliance partners across the country.

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 and clean tech experience covers wind power, solar power, energy storage, biofuels, waste to energy systems, and water purification technologies.

He is an accomplished senior executive leader previously serving as Chief Financial Officer for four aggressive growth, start-up environment, entrepreneurial real estate project development companies. Prior positions include Chief Financial Officer of Exclusive Resorts, LLC for Steve Case in Denver. In this role, he directed all finance, strategic planning, accounting, tax, treasury, and human resource functions for the largest luxury private residence club (PRC) worldwide.

Previous roles include Director of Financial Accounting at Hyatt Corporation for the Pritzker family in Chicago. Mr. Greenman provided overall leadership for the Financial Relations department within a sixty-member finance and accounting group at corporate headquarters. Group was responsible for all financial and accounting functions for a consolidated holding group of more than 200 companies in a diversified and fluid multi-billion dollar portfolio specializing in hospitality.

Mr. Greenman is a Certified Public Accountant, CPA, and he began his career as an auditor for the public accounting firm of Laventhol & Horwath in Chicago. He 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, and earned his Accountancy, B.S. degree in 1984 from Northern Illinois University.

Boards

As a business leader in the Rocky Mountain Front Range arena in Colorado, Mr. Greenman is actively involved in the renewable energy community advancing policy initiatives, supporting outreach efforts, and facilitating service provider networking access. He maintains several membership affiliations including:

• AWEA - American Wind Energy Association, Community Wind Working Group national committee member
• Windustry
• CHEN - Colorado Harvesting Energy Network, Board President
• RMFU - Rocky Mountain Farmers Union, President of Denver Chapter
• CRES - Colorado Renewable Energy Society, Finance Committee Member
• TREIA - Texas Renewable Energy Industries Association