Mission
The ongoing mission of Greenbriar Sustainable Living Inc. is to positively transform the urban landscape by developing, owning, and investing in real estate around the world.
Our mission guides us in achieving our collective vision of being the clear and acknowledged leader in our marketplace in real estate activity, environmental protection, sustainability, innovation and results for our communities and the environment.
We strive to be highly respected with a diversified portfolio of quality properties and an outstanding reputation for development & property management.
Values
Values
Passionate – Dedicated – Experienced
Meet Our Team of Experts
We are fortunate to have such a talented and committed team at the helm.
Jeff Ciachurski
CEO and Board Member
Richard Phillips
Head of Greenbriar Construction
Cliff Webb
President and Director
Daniel Kunz
Chairman
Anthony Balic
Chief Financial Officer
Michael Boyd
Director
Bill Sutherland
Director
Chris Harvey
Director
Passionate – Dedicated – Experienced
Meet Our Team of Experts
We are fortunate to have such a talented and committed team at the helm.
Jeff Ciachurski
CEO and Board Member
Jeff Ciachurski, CEO and Board Member
Jeff Ciachurski is the principal executive officer representing the operating and management team to the board of directors.
He formulates the mission statement, growth plans, appoints and designates senior management personnel, defines geographic areas of responsibility, and engages senior independent consultants. He maintains continuous and proactive relationships with leading retail and institutional shareholders, and maintains close associations with the banking and project finance community.
Jeff launched Greenbriar after a highly successful 11-year career as the founder and CEO of Western Wind Energy Corp, where he built a concept with a few thousand dollars and grew the company into an industry-recognized, vertically integrated, renewable energy owner and operator which he sold to Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners for CAD 420 Million in March 2013.
He established the operating and development assets in California, Arizona, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and financially led and built over 165 MW of solar and wind production, 360 MW of advanced staged assets, and a 1,600 MW project pipeline, all wholly owned by the company.
Jeff has a combined acquisition, development, financing, and shareholder value creation record of over USD 3.6 Billion.
Richard Phillips
Head of Greenbriar Construction
Richard Phillips, Head of Greenbriar Construction
In 25 years of residential development and construction in Kern County, Richard has managed, consulted, and constructed over 2,500 homes.
Upon graduating from California State University Bakersfield with a BA in Business Administration, he began his construction career with a national home building company, Centex Homes. He managed the construction of an average of 200 homes a year across multiple neighborhoods. While employed with Centex Homes, Richard acquired his CA General Contractors License (B1 #848124).
Prior to operating his own company, he held the title of Division President for S&S Homes of the Central Coast. As Division President his role included but was not limited to land acquisition, land development, zoning and planning, project budgeting, and analysis of company profitability. He prepared bank Proformas for bank lenders and worked with city and county inspectors, architects, and surveyors.
At any given period, Richard managed up to five large-scale sites and up to 50 employees. 2017 was the year he left S&S Homes of the Central Coast to pursue self-employment. He founded Richard Phillips Construction LLC and his first big project was completing the Tyner Ranch Development. He completed phases 3, 4, and 5 which consisted of approximately 200 single-family residential homes.
Richard draws from his experiences and training in the field, professional education, and ability to communicate fluently in English and Spanish which increases his performance efficiency. He takes pride in contributing to the realization of home ownership for thousands of families throughout Kern County.
Cliff Webb
President and Director
Cliff Web, President and Director
Cliff is a Registered Professional Engineer with 40 years of power engineering experience directly applicable to regulatory, EPC, and financing renewable energy development.
Formerly Executive Vice President of Luz Development and Finance Corp., Cliff served as the principal executive tasked with developing, permitting, building, and financing the 355 MW SEGS solar thermal facility in Mojave, California (first of its kind in the US) and the largest project of its kind for 30 years.
Cliff is also the former Manager of renewable energy procurement with Southern California Edison in which he executed over 2,500 MW of renewable energy contracts negotiated and built in California from 2007 to 2015.
He is the former Chief and Head of the Engineering and Environmental Division of the California Energy Commission and served as the personal Nuclear Energy Advisor to the Governor of California.
Cliff holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of California at Berkeley.
He funded, contracted or co-led over USD 10 billion in renewable projects since 2003.
Daniel Kunz
Chairman
Daniel Kunz, Chairman
Daniel Kunz PE, MBA, B.Sc. Eng. has 35 years of experience in areas of engineering, management, accounting, finance and operations.
In 2014, he founded and is currently the managing member of Daniel Kunz & Associates, LLC an engineering services company in natural resources. He was the Director, President, and COO of Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. (NYSE: TRQ). In 1998, Daniel led Ivanhoe into Mongolia where, in 2001 he was part of the team that discovered Oyu Tolgoi, one of the largest copper-gold deposits in the world.
He is the founder, and from 2004 until April 2013 was President, CEO, and Director, of U.S. Geothermal Inc., a renewable energy company acquired by Ormat Technologies (NYSE: ORA) in 2018 for an enterprise value of USD 200 million. U.S. Geothermal Inc. developed, owns, and operates 50 MW of base load power from three geothermal power plants.
In 1993 as president, CEO, and director, he led the IPO of MK Gold Company on the NASDAQ, a gold company he co-founded with worldwide gold mining operations and production of 200,000 ounces of gold per year from the mines it owned and operated.
For 17 years, Daniel worked for and ultimately served as a senior executive of Morrison Knudsen Corp (now USD 20 billion AECOM, NYSE: ACM), including as Vice President & Controller. I
n 1995, he was named a Distinguished Alumni from the University of Montana Tech (formerly the Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology) and was a member of the advisory board for the Engineering Department at the University of Montana Tech.
He currently serves on the board of directors of several public companies involved in natural resource development including recently retiring as CEO of Prime Mining Corp. hosting 3 million ounces of gold, where he now serves as Director.
Anthony Balic
Chief Financial Officer
Anthony Balic, Chief Financial Officer
Anthony is a Professional Chartered Accountant, CA, and a CPA. Anthony has over 15 years of public company audit and financial management experience, including serving as a former Deloitte Audit Manager.
Anthony has audited dozens of public companies including Western Wind Energy Corp., and currently represents several international resource companies as their financial executive.
Michael Boyd
Director
Michael Boyd, Director
Before joining Greenbriar Sustainable Living in 2011, Mike held the position of Executive Vice President of Land Development for Western Wind Energy Corp., until the company was purchased by Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners in 2013 for CAD 420 million cash.
He assisted Western Wind Energy in acquiring, leasing, and zoning real estate suitable for the development of wind and solar farms in Arizona and California. In addition, Mike served on the company’s Board of Directors.
Prior to joining Western Wind, Mike served for eight years as an elected member of the Pima County (Greater Tucson, Arizona) Board of Supervisors, elected to help run a county of one million residents with an operating budget of over USD 1 billion. Mike’s primary role for eight years, in addition to forming public policy, was his direct approval and entitlement of over 10,000 homes in the Greater Tucson area.
Mike has extensive experience working with the largest real estate developers in Arizona, including all the national builders. Previous to his eight years as County Supervisor (two years as Chairman) Mike was elected for four years as the Pima County Land Recorder, in which he led a staff of 40 professionals in the recording and documentation of all of the real estate in Pima County.
Bill Sutherland
Director
Bill Sutherland, Director
Bill was Vice President & Senior Managing Director at Manulife Financial where he headed the firm’s Project Finance & Infrastructure Team. He and his team at Manulife have been leading arrangers and providers of debt and equity financing to the independent power sector for over 18 years.
He is a seasoned corporate banker with over 37 years of business development, relationship management, and corporate and project finance experience.
Bill started as an analyst within The Bank of Nova Scotia’s International Corporate Finance Group in 1980 where he focused on project finance. He later created and led project and corporate finance teams at Chase Manhattan Bank, Mitsubishi Bank, and Deutsche Bank where he specialized in financing projects and mergers and acquisitions within the mining and metals, forestry, oil & gas, pipeline, and power sectors.
In 1998, Bill acted as a consultant to Barrick Gold Corporation as Barrick explored the possibilities of creating a mine finance business in competition with the major commercial banks.
Bill joined Clarica Life Insurance Company in 1998 where he created and headed a project finance team dedicated to financing power and infrastructure projects in Canada. Following its success in the Canadian market, the group broadened its focus and became a pioneering and leading arranger and provider of financing to the Canadian and U.S. wind power industries. The team moved to Manulife in 2002 and since that time expanded its leadership role within the Canadian independent power and U.S. renewable power markets.
Bill is a Professional Engineer (AEPO) and holds a BSc. (Mechanical Engineering) and MBA from Queen’s University, Kingston.
Chris Harvey
Director
Chris Harvey, Director
Chris was previously CEO of JP Morgan Securities (part of JP Morgan Chase, NYSE: JPM).
He began his career at JP Morgan 39 years ago, and helped build out the firm’s overall investment banking capabilities. His roles included client banker, head of foreign exchange options and emerging markets derivatives, and he then built an advisory and solutions team focused on corporate finance valuation, as well as tax and accounting efficiency.
Chris was also responsible for reputational risk for the firm’s investment bank in the Americas. After spending several years as the Chief Country Officer for Japan, Chris then ran the Wealth Management business for Latin America, with his final position as the CEO of JP Morgan Securities for four years.
He is from Columbus, Ohio and holds a degree in Economics from Harvard College. Chris is on the board of directors of Atmonia, an Iceland-based pioneer in zero-carbon ammonia production.
Advisors
Advisors
Paul Morris
Independent Head of Sales for Sage Ranch
Paul Morris, Independant Head of Sales Sage Ranch
Paul is a significant Keller Williams’ Regional Owner for Central & Southern California, where he oversees 36 offices with 8,000 realtors who close USD 18 billion in sales volume per year.
Additionally, as CEO of Forward Living, Paul has grown his own offices to become Keller Williams’ #2 Franchisee with 3,000 realtors and USD 7.8 billion in annual closed volume. Paul and his team have led Keller Williams Realty to the #1 spot for Market Share in Los Angeles.
Real Trends 500 ranks Paul’s group as the 24th largest real estate brokerage firm in the U.S. and the 2020 Swanepoel 200 ranked Paul as the 64th most powerful person in residential real estate in the U.S. Paul is a prolific entrepreneur, real estate investor, author, trainer, and business consultant.
He is the author of the New York Times bestselling book Wealth Can’t Wait (www.wealth.org).
Prior to real estate, Paul had a successful legal career – highlights include his work at the international law firm Proskauer Rose, and as Senior Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice consistently reporting to the U.S. Attorney General and Counsel to the President.
Paul has a degree in economics from University of Pittsburgh, a Masters in Management from Oxford University, and a JD from Cornell Law School.
Keith Martin
Renewable Energy Lawyer
Keith Martin, Renewable Energy Lawyer
Keith Martin is the Co-Head of Energy Projects for all of Norton Rose Fulbright, LLP, the second-largest Law Firm in the US. Keith is a transactional lawyer whose principal areas of practice are tax and project finance. He acted for 116 companies last year. He also lobbies Congress and the Treasury Department on policy issues. The prestigious Chambers directory has called him “the preeminent authority on tax structurings in the US” and gives him its sole “star” ranking among U.S. renewable energy lawyers.
Keith holds a M.Sc, from The London School of Economics, a JD, from George Washington University, and a BA from Wesleyan University.
Keith has provided legal and tax structuring on over USD 100 Billion of renewable projects since 2003.
Tommy Sullivan
Chairman of Real Estate Advisory Board
Tommy Sullivan, Chairman of Real Estate Advisory Board
Director and Investor – Enexor. Technology that converts plastic, refuse, and biodegradables into energy without carbon emissions.
Director – Data Services. A title software company.
Co-owner/Founder – Brilliant Health. Biopharma / R&D/ Product development.
Investor/advisor – QUSecure. Post-quantum resilient cyber security company protecting against Classical and future Quantum computer attacks for companies, Infrastructure, Satellites, and Military.
Former Chairman – Title Security Agency for 20 years. Sold to First American.
Former Chairman – Landmark Title Assurance agency. Sold to Shaddock National and current Director.
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