Operating experience
Each of the following is work performed by the founder or an affiliated operating company, not advice given. They are set out as disciplines, not in order of importance.
These describe the operating experience of the founder and the affiliated companies. They are not Corporate Advisory Group client engagements and the figures are not combined into any aggregate.
01
Development in Texas, after the Mexico years.
Development experience expanded extensively into Texas: retail centers, land development, residential subdivisions, homebuilding, commercial real estate, utility infrastructure and multifamily development.
02
Where the absence of a municipal system would have stopped the project.
Direct experience creating and coordinating water and wastewater infrastructure to support real estate development. Where a lack of municipal infrastructure might prevent another developer from moving forward, the engineering, permitting, financing, construction and operation of private infrastructure was coordinated directly.
03
OmniFlow Systems and Deer Trail Water District.
Wet-utility construction and wastewater treatment through OmniFlow. Private water and wastewater utility formation and operation through Deer Trail, including permitting, rate studies and cash-flow planning.
04
Creating the funding vehicle, then living with it.
Private water district formation and the financial work that surrounds it: permitting, rate studies, cash-flow planning, project economics, debt structuring and capital allocation, carried through to day-to-day operation at Deer Trail Water District.
Finance is treated as an operating discipline rather than a separate accounting function. Capital, engineering, construction, regulation and operations are evaluated against each other, because on a district-funded project a decision in any one of them moves the others.
05
Garment manufacturing and a fashion-forward finishing facility in Mexico, built from scratch.
Built from the ground up in a foreign country: sewing plants and a 100,000 square foot garment finishing facility producing 100,000 garments per week, delivered without flaws and on schedule to U.S. shipping deadlines. Every part of the scope was led personally, end to end.
The facility ran on its own infrastructure. An in-house wastewater reclamation plant, fully stainless steel with continuous flow clarifiers. Chemical balancing equipment. Internal pumping systems and the site's own water well. Laundry discharge treated and reused for agricultural irrigation. Import and export coordinated between Mexico and the United States. Quality control systems, process design and fashion garment programs built with the customers themselves.
Brands served during this period included Levi's, Gap, Arizona, Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger and JLO.
06
An established sourcing channel, five years running.
A well-run channel for water and wastewater equipment, in place for five years: containerized MBR wastewater treatment plants, containerized activated sludge plants with rectangular clarifiers, pumping systems, reverse osmosis and desalination systems, valves, booster pumps, stainless steel pumps and pressure tanks.
This is not budget substitution. The stainless steel pumping equipment and the sourced systems are of extremely high quality, specified and inspected to the same standard as anything built here. The channel exists because it delivers that quality reliably, not because it is cheap.
07
Approximately one million square feet.
Industrial, warehouse, retail and related construction and development experience in Mexico: factories, warehouses, commercial buildings, retail properties and hospitality-related assets.
08
West Texas.
Experience through Kahlenberg Oil & Gas LLC includes land work, drilling, discovery, well development, operations and Texas Railroad Commission requirements associated with an oil project near Ballinger, Texas.
09
Voidly.ai, and ventures in media, artificial intelligence and digital assets.
Co-founding technology and media ventures, including Voidly.ai, and building the systems behind them: artificial intelligence systems development and information processing development.
Participation in cryptocurrency, NFT, stablecoin, tokenization and artificial-intelligence initiatives, approached the same way as any other operating business rather than as a portfolio position.
Levi's, Gap, Arizona, Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger and JLO are trademarks of their respective owners. They are named to describe manufacturing work performed for them and do not imply any current relationship with, or endorsement of, Corporate Advisory Group.
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