Board of Directors

Jeff Ciachurski is the principal executive officer and advisor representing the operating and management team to the board of directors. Mr. Ciachurski formulates the mission statement and growth plans, appoints and designates senior management personnel, defines geographic areas of responsibility and engages senior independent consultants. Mr. Ciachurski maintains continuous and proactive relationships with leading retail and institutional shareholders, and maintains close associations with the banking and project finance community. Mr. Ciachurski launched Greenbriar after a highly successful 11 year career as founder, CEO and Director of Western Wind Energy Corp, where he built a concept with a few thousand dollars into an industry-recognized, vertically integrated, renewable energy owner and operator which he sold to Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners for $420 Million in March 2013. Mr. Ciachurski 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 and 360 MW of advanced staged assets all wholly owned by the company.

As CEO, Mr. Ciachurski has a combined acquisition, development, financing, and shareholder value creation record of over $3.6 Billion.

Cliff is a Registered Professional Engineer with 40 years of power engineering experience directly applicable to regulatory, EPC and financing renewable energy development. Former 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 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. Cliff is the former Chief and Head of the Engineering and Environmental Division of the California Energy Commission and served as the personal Nuclear Advisor to Governor of California. Cliff holds an Mechanical Engineering degree from University of California at Berkeley. Cliff funded, contracted or co-lead over $10 Billion of renewable projects since 2003.

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 US renewable energy lawyers. Keith holds a M.Sc, from The London School of Economics, a JD, from George Washington University and BA, from Wesleyan University. Keith has provided legal and tax structuring on over $100 Billion of renewable projects since 2003.

Before joining Greenbriar Capital Corp, Mr. Boyd held the position of Executive Vice President of Development for Western Wind Energy Corp., until the company was purchased by Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners. 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, Mr. Boyd served on the company's Board of Directors. Prior to joining Western Wind, he served as an elected member of the Central Arizona Water Conservation District, the largest water utility in the state of Arizona and its biggest electrical consumer. Prior to that, Mike served two terms on the Pima County (Arizona) Board of Supervisors, elected to help run a county of one million residents with a an operating budget of over $1 billion.

Mr. Boyd graduated from UCLA. He is married and has three boys.

Bill Sutherland, recently retired, 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 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, emerging markets derivatives, and then built an advisory and solutions team focused on corporate finance valuation, as well as tax and accounting efficiency. He 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 all of Latin America, with his final position as the CEO of JP Morgan Securities for four years. Chris is from Columbus, Ohio and holds a degree in Economics from Harvard College.