Ascent through financial advisement.

David Dunlap has been active 30+ years as an entrepreneur and business development specialist conceptualizing, launching and growing international companies as both principal and/or adviser. He has also established a number of private equity and carbon funds again either as principal or in an advisory capacity. David has a special expertise in the analysis of business models, value supply chains, risk management, executive team formation and an in-depth understanding of critical macro and micro failure points for early stage companies along with strategic execution and tactics key to client company success. David attended Georgetown School of Foreign Service and the American University Graduate Interdisciplinary Studies Program, School of International Communications-Press, Radio, TV & Film.

Alexandra McOran-Campbell has been involved in the finance industry for over 25 years. She has worked in senior roles within international financial institutions gaining a vast understanding of alternative asset class investment funds and structured product management. She proves to have special expertise in fund structuring, due diligence procedures, fund raising and exit strategies. Alexandra has significant experience in client management and investment deal-flow process. Alexandra completed her International Business Management studies at the ILSA International College of Southern Africa.

Audrey is a management consultant specializing in strategic marketing, alliances and business development planning and negotiations.  Through her role at R5 Limited, Audrey has served in interim senior executive positions to assist client companies with business management, planning, strategy, restructuring, executing and marketing. Previously, Audrey held senior management and strategic positions in Fortune 500 companies such as Ashton-Tate, Compaq and IBM.  She has over 30 years experience in the global market technology sectors, including hardware, software, internet and web based application companies (B2B and B2C).  As Vice President of Marketing, Audrey was instrumental in building two companies, one of which was an industry leader acquired by Microsoft, who subsequently incorporated the core database engine into their product MS Office suite. Audrey self-published a primer social media 101 book in 2009: “Social Media Marketing For Small Business” during the early days of new media platform expansions.  It was a guide aimed at helping small businesses navigate this digital new landscape and understand when, what, where and why to engage and how to incorporate their own website messaging. Audrey is a graduate of Queen Mary College, University of London, B.S. (Hons), MA in Marketing, Kingston University U.K. & CIM (Chartered Institute in Marketing – required by most European corporates).  She also holds a current real estate license in CA since 2011 and is active in the Los Angeles and Orange County markets working with investors and consumers.

Murdoch W. Gillespie has over 36 years’ experience as an entrepreneur launching and helping new businesses to grow as both a principal and consultant. In 1974, after service as an officer in the British Army, Murdoch emigrated to the United States where he established and managed Triangle Properties, Inc., a developer of warehouses and offices primarily in California. In parallel, with David Dunlap and another partner, he established a highly successful independent business consultancy which structured investment packages to raise finance and venture capital from both institutional and private sources for developing companies. In 1990, after 15 years in the United States, he returned to the United Kingdom where as an angel investor, he gained a reputation for keen business analysis and the translation of disparate business ideas into meaningful financial forecasts and plans. Not only did this lead him into fund-raising for a number of start-up companies but also taking board seats. During this time, he gained a good background in creative structured finance or financial engineering. In 1996 he joined the management team of Impact Capital, a spinoff of PVH Fund Managers Limited, an offshore fund focused on micro and small cap Regulation S investment transactions in the US. As a specialist in analysis with expertise in financial modeling and the creation of strategic business plans, Murdoch’s role was business analysis, the creation of strategic plans and interactive financial models. When Green Ventures International Limited was formed by Managing Partner, David Dunlap, to develop run-of river, hydroelectric projects in Nepal, Murdoch joined the team working closely with the Nepalese and Indian engineers to develop the technical feasibility studies, detailed financial models and strategic plans needed to attract co-venture partners, private and institutional finance. These activities naturally led to a comparison between various renewable energy sectors and an examination of the possibilities of combining these different activities in one location with a view thereby of optimizing the investment and maximizing the returns. Murdoch Gillespie graduated from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and served as an officer in the British Army specializing in logistics and civil engineering. Most of his military service was spent in the Far East with H.Q. Land Forces, Hong Kong, the 48th Gurkha Infantry Brigade and the Commonwealth Infantry Brigade in Malaysia, Borneo and Singapore

Jonathan-Joseph is a dynamic and multifaceted entrepreneur and creative professional across the philanthropic and private sectors. In the non-profit arena his areas of focus range from high net worth donor advisement, foundation management, full-scale fundraising management, strategic planning, major & annual giving as well as grant-writing and board governance. His private sector experience ranges from management, marketing and PR advisement for luxury apparel brands, as well as startup and strategic planning alongside diamond and fine art brokerage. Jonathan is also himself a fine artist, producing works in oil and mixed media through J. Joseph Studio. He holds a Bachelor in English Literature from Hofstra University and a Master of Science in Fundraising Management from Columbia University in the City of New York.

Bruce Crager is Managing  Director of Endeavor Management, a management consulting group based in Houston, where he leads the firm’s Offshore, Subsea and Marine Group. His previous positions include Vice President-Subsea at J. Ray McDermott, President and CEO at INTEC Engineering, a consultant to Petrobras America for their deepwater Gulf of Mexico Cascade/ Chinook project, President of ABB Offshore Systems, and was Sr. Vice President of Oceaneering for 13 years with responsibility for Mobile Offshore Production Systems and Subsea Products.  Prior to this, Bruce was Operations Manager for Hughes Offshore/Vetco and a design engineer at Seaflo Systems and The Offshore Company.

Bruce’s 37 years of experience in the offshore oil and gas industry includes both strategic and operational leadership as well as winning and executing projects in excess of $200 million. His expertise includes floating production systems, subsea systems and offshore field development. His industry involvement includes being Secretary to API Subcommittee 17 on Subsea Equipment for 22 years and membership on the Editorial Advisory Board for Offshore Magazine.

He has a BS in Ocean Engineering from Texas A&M University and was selected as a Distinguished Graduate of TAMU’s Zachary Department of Civil Engineering in 2008.  Bruce also has an MBA from the University of Houston, has co-authored 4 patents and has written numerous technical and management articles and is a guest speaker at numerous international industry technology conferences and seminars promoting technology adoption by his industry peers.  Bruce is on the Young Life Board for the Greater Houston Region. and was also an advisory board member to the Proteus Energy Corporation.