Our officers and directors have experience in technology evaluation, capital development, culture building, peak performance team building, successful (and non-successful) start-ups, taking companies public and financial instruments that support our business mission.
We have worked with and funded many inventors of breakthrough technologies as well. We have coached Fortune 500 human resource departments, owned successful national executive search companies, successfully re-organized struggling companies, created inspired teams and cultures in for-profit and non-profit environments, provided financial consulting to individuals in the Forbes 400 richest and served as lead consultants to numerous CEOs in diverse industries. A brief profile of our professional experiences is set forth below.
Rennie Davis, Co-President and Board of Directors:
In
the 1960s, he was the coordinator of the largest anti-war and civil rights
coalition in the United
States. He remains a recognized spokesmen
for his generation, featured on numerous network television documentaries and
media forums, from the Legends series produced by CBS to Larry King Live,
Barbara Walters, VH1, CNN and other network programs. His leadership in the
socially responsible investment industry has been profiled in the Dow Jones
Investment Advisor.
In the 1980s, he was the managing partner for a consulting company with an exclusive clientele of board members and officers of Fortune 500 companies and wealthy families. He owned an executive search firm that served Fortune 500 companies. His consulting company purchased and developed the 80-acre Greystone estate for the purpose of establishing a unique Colorado technology development center for inventors and scientists. He has supported start-up companies in capital development and taken them public. He has experience in technology deal structures and presented various technology projects to U.S. financial markets.
He has also served as a valued consultant to directors and senior management of diverse Fortune 500 companies in executive search, leadership training, financial planning, team building, employee benefit design and executive outplacement. Clients have included the CEO of HBO, President of the Manville Corporation, officers of Time-Warner and IBM, the board of directors of Gates Rubber Company and people in the Forbes 400 Richest. He was a principal in the organization and development of TSL Incorporated where he secured agreements with Union Carbide. He also organized RBC Universal and served as the company's Chief Operating Officer where he secured strategic agreements with Ford Motor Company, EverReady Battery Company and Ray-O-Vac.
He currently serves as Company President and is a member of the Board of Directors. He is also Chairman of the Foundation for Humanity.
Randall
Prouty, Co-President and Board of Directors: He is the the founder and President
of World Associates, Inc. (World) and a founder and co-President of iPower Living,
LLC. He organized World with the aim of creating a real estate company focused
on sustainable community development, factory housing and new methods of real estate
financing. Yellow Hills Ranch is World’s first sustainable community project.
Superior Factory Homes (Superior), a World subsidiary, designs and manufactures “green” factory
built homes. World was capitalized by Randall and a small group of investment partners
who continue to work closely with World. Randall has led the development of the
Yellow Hills Ranch Sustainable Community Master Plan and brings a unique set of
skills from soil biology to innovative community design to real estate financing
and marketing. He recently developed the business association and license with
JetStream Wind for World’s initial solar energy project. He has extensive
experience in sophisticated financing strategies, capital formation, public company
creation and senior management for real estate and public company ventures. He
also developed skills as a web-application programmer and producer while building
e-commerce applications and developing an internet based application for mortgage
origination.
In 1997 he founded Advanced Communication Technologies (ADVC) and was CEO and Chairman of the Board. ADVC was a public company that provided on-site maintenance service and product refurbishment for the communication and computer industries. Randall left the company after a successful sale of ADVC to HIG Capital. From 1985 to 1997 he operated his own real estate company, Bristol Realty Corporation, and managed many real estate projects including the purchase of the Wellesly Inns hotel chain and the acquisition of commercial properties from the Resolution Trust Corporation, packaging them into REMIC’s (mortgage backed securities).
Prior to Bristol Realty, he worked for Florida Fidelity, an affiliate of Sonnenblick Goldman. He opened Fidelity’s West Palm Beach office and underwrote both permanent and construction loans for lenders around the country who were involved in the Southeast lending market. He has been a licensed real estate and mortgage broker since 1986. He attended college at the University of Massachusetts where, as an undergraduate and a Commonwealth Scholar, he developed an independent course of study in 1970 focused on human motivation and business administration.
Jason Knoll, Chief Operating Officer and
Board of Managers: A CPA who majored in
business administration, he brings to the Company more than 20 years
professional experience in technology delivery, financial management and
fast-paced business operations. He has directed successful start-up ventures as
well as serving as a key strategic manager for high earning major corporations.
He was an Audit Supervisor with Coopers & Lybrand and Senior Auditor with
Price Waterhouse, two of the world's largest CPA firms. He served as general
manager of Guardian Technologies, an electronic monitoring products company
where he directed a successful turnaround strategy resulting in a significant
reduction in operating expenses and a 143% increase in revenues.
He co-founded
Elemental Holdings and developed its business plan, venture capital strategy,
operations systems and sales plan for an advanced digital imagining technology
start-up. He was a senior corporate analyst for a $325 million sales
manufacturer of food flavors where he was recognized for his significant
contributions to the company's exemplar financial performance. He directed
business development for a large building products manufacturer and distributor
of residential, commercial and industrial doors with annual revenues exceeding
$450 million.
More recently he has owned his own consulting company where he has supported numerous start-up and development companies with strategic planning, financial modeling and product and service definitions. He even served as a temporary CEO for a solar design and installation company in Chapter 11 that needed to unwind. A versatile business leader known for his open-curious brilliance and commitment to his own growth and evolution, he brings to the Company a diverse experience in strategic partnerships, financial management and analytical and conceptual skills. He has a strong business acumen for personnel recruitment, team motivation and business accelerator methodologies. He has a proven career focus for inspiring the conditions for thriving peak performance results-oriented enterprises large and small.
Kirsten Liegmann: Whole Systems Officer and Board of
Directors: She was the co-owner and organizer of her own
successful manufacturing company where she served as President and CEO of Soma
Ergonomics. She brings an invaluable knowledge to any company wanting to merge
sustainability and profitable environmental respect into their own business
practices. She holds a Masters of Business Administration in
Sustainable Management from Presidio School of Management, San Francisco, California.
She has served as Director of Operations for Gaia University,
an international university dedicated to the advancement of ecological and
social projects worldwide, where she created and implemented system designs for
every quadrant of the operation including accounting, finance, business
development, regional center development, data base design and student advisory
services. With more than fourteen years in business and leadership experience,
she has an extensive knowledge of organizational system design in both
non-profit and for-profit markets.
She is valued for her exceptional problem-solving and people skills and for her effective ability to manage the details while maintaining a comprehensive awareness of the whole. She brings to the Company an extensive accounting knowledge and financial data experience including preparation of pro-forma financial data, budgets and spreadsheet design and management. She is skilled in every phase of project plan design and implementation as well. She has a broad spectrum background in sustainability, including eco-efficiency, closed-loop design, green building LEED standards, triple bottom line accounting, community and regional economic revitalization and the emerging economic field of complementary currencies. She is an inspiring business speaker trained in both one-on-one coaching and large and small group trainings and facilitations. She has experience in event planning and managing all aspects of successful public events. She is also a gifted writer and wordsmith. She is fluent in both English and German. She is currently setting up and directing the financial, operational and whole system designs for the Company. She is also President of the Foundation for Humanity.
LeRoy West, Board of Managers: He brings to the Company a
broad business background ranging from product development with RGB Spectrum to
operation manager for 120 engineers and technicians on large complex aircraft
refurbishment projects. He was Vice President of a computer sales company where
he built partnerships with Japanese, Taiwanese, and Chinese computer
manufacturers and successfully established a nationwide network of computer
resellers. While serving as Business Development Manager for Media Forum
International, he brought this multimedia production company from Europe to the
U.S. where he developed
offices in Los Angeles, Boston
and Miami. He
was also sales manager for an entertainment industry systems integration
company where he opened the Burbank,
CA office and successfully
developed its 30 employee operation.
He currently directs land development and
construction for the World Associates' 350 Homes sustainable community for the
New Mexico Showcase while managing Superior Factory Homes, a green,
factory-built housing company. He is recognized for his engineering proficiency
and exceptional people skills He brings to the Yellow Hills Ranch project and
the Company considerable experience preparing and presenting complex proposals
in sales, marketing and finance while building consensus among creative,
technical and commercial interests to achieve large project results.
Consultants and Advisors: The Company will also rely on consultants who have experience in early-stage large undertakings. The Company has identified various project managers with experience in complex undertakings, software architects, industrial design specialists, capital partners and other advisors with experience in global technology developments that want to assist the Company with its new way of living design.