Building a Sustainable Future
for Today and Tomorrow’s Generations
Building a Sustainable Future
for Today and Tomorrow’s Generations
Greenbriar Sustainable Living Inc. (TSXV: GRB, OTC: GEBRF) is a Canadian company that was founded in 2013 by Jeff Ciachurski who led his former company, Western Wind Energy, to a $420 million acquisition by Brookfield Renewable Energy.
Greenbriar is a leading developer of sustainable entry-level housing and renewable energy projects.
The company is currently building two large-scale projects namely Sage Ranch in Tehachapi, California (995 homes) and Montalva in Guánica, Puerto Rico (80MWac solar farm).
Both projects are in the near-construction stage and have completed all the essential development milestones for over a decade.
The company is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol GRB.V and in the US OTC market as GEBRF.
Leading the affordable green housing trend
A quick overview of our main initiatives
Sage Ranch – Construction start: May, 2024
Sage Ranch is a real estate community of 995 exceptionally located entry-level homes in the heart of Tehachapi Valley, a community located in southern California with 38,000 residents and 80 minutes north of Los Angeles.
We know it’s a big problem, but we do our part to help solve the national shortage of affordable homes.
Montalva – Breaking Ground in 2024
Our Montalva property (1,747 acres) is a large utility-scale solar and battery storage build with an initial size of 80 MWac or 160 MWdc,
(which is about 320,000 solar panels) located in the very sunny and dry southwestern coastal area of Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico is still fighting the aftermath of Hurricane Maria from 2017. At that time, a substantial part of the outdated electricity network was completely destroyed. Montalva Solar Farm will supply electricity to 30,000 households.
Cordero Ranch – Breaking Ground in 2025
High-quality, smaller footprint homes (starting around 650 sq ft) inside a full-service luxury community starting at USD 200,000.
Shareholders’ Metrics (April 2024)
Total Shares Outstanding
Current Market Valuation
Value Creation
Project Timelines (April 2024)
Development Milestones of Our Projects
Construction Status of Our Projects
What We’re Working On Right Now (April 2024)
Finalize the Voya Construction Loan for Sage Ranch Phase 1
Finalize permitting for Sage Ranch Phase 1
Break Ground At Sage Ranch In Tehachapi
Final Approvals For Montalva
Close Partnership For Cordero Ranch In Utah
Enhance Our Presence on Social Media
Monthly Interviews
Webinar of April 26th, 2024
Recording of the Webinar featuring CEO Jeff Ciachurski and former JP Morgan Securities CEO Chris Harvey.
Topics included:
Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Program that Covers All of Sage Ranch
Project Updates on Sage Ranch, Montalva, and Cordero Ranch
Q&A
Report from European Analyst (February 19th, 2024)
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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.
Passionate – Dedicated – Experienced
Meet Our Team of Experts
We are fortunate to have such a talented and committed team at the helm.
