GCPP Partners

Brad Kempo, B.A., LL.B., Founder & Managing Partner of GCPP, is a retired attorney [CV] who entered the capital raising industry as a second career in early January 2015; and originally pursued investments for mining and hi-tech. In mid-2016 he formally launched his firm and compiled renewable energy projects [Library]. He established strategic alliance partnerships in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and India.

From early September until the end of October 2021 he researched over 2,000 renewable energy and utility companies around the world; each of which is a prospective GCPP client and successful Funding Model applicant. [Link]

Professor Gopal Iyer, Founder & President of the Renewable Energy Promotion Association* [Link]; the REPA team [Link]; Founder & Editor-in-Chief of Markenomy [Link]; its publications [Link]; and President of The Enertia Foundation [Link].

* More on REPA [Link]

Manoj Channan, B.Com., M.Sc. Defense & Strategic Studies, is a retired Lt. Colonel in India's military (serving from 1983 to 2009) and now an independent defense business consultant [Linked-In; CV]. He introduced the American Funding Model to GCPP in December 2019 and is the primary contact when pursuing that opportunity.

Louis Browne, Barrister & Solicitor [Profile]; has been practicing law in Regina, the capital city of the Canadian province of Saskatchwan for the last 20 years.

Andrew Mortimer, Founder and Chairman of Keops Group [Link], heads a corporate advisory and stragegy services firm based in Sydney, Australia; which includes advice on asset and project acquisitions, strategic advice on new business development, re-focussing existing businesses and advice relating to company personnel and their deployment. Areas of expertise: recapitalizations, debt & equity financing, mergers & acquisitions and placements & IPOs.

Pieter Bruinstroop is a principal of Beer & Co. [Link], located in Melbourne, Australia.  It's a financial services firm focused on the broader financing needs of small to mid-size renewable, mining and exploration companies. It helps tap into private finance sources and public equity. In addition to hosting conferences it brings together Institutional and retail distribution through independent companies and advisers as well as via other means. The team conducts analysis and research and advises on project economics, sensitivities and project viability. 

Paul Hales is the Founder, Managing and Technical Director of Hales Water Turbines Ltd. [Link] since its inception in June 2013 (previously Hales Energy Ltd. circa 2011); which is a R&D company based near Hastings, England. He is a career marine and mechanical engineer, his knowledge and expertise derived from being in naval engineering for decades, and who's been involved with tidal stream turbine development for over 30 years in both the USA and UK. The company holds a patent [Link] on a revolutionary low-velocity/high torque tidal stream turbine and has several products in its marine energy portfolio including wave generation, thermal heat transfer systems and marine propulsion. He also has been and continues to be an independent consultant to many companies throughout the marine energy world. Paul joined GCPP to help investors understand complexities in the opportunities involving tidal, wave & river renewable energy systems.

Nick Patz is the Founder and CEO of the consulting firm Energy and Environment [Link]. For over 35 years he has been conducting and managing environmental assessment and remediation projects. His wide range of experiences include being a pioneer in the due diligence field of the late 1980s to recently promoting waste to energy as an important control on humanity's impact on climate change. He has instituted concept integrated waste management programs to establishing zero-waste initiatives for local governments, hotel chains and industrial developments.

He has given presentations in the United States, South America and the Middle East on topics ranging from explanations of environmental law to how pyrolytic gasification could be a key cog in helping solve global climate change problems.

He has also supervised a company directive (between 2002 and 2010) to provide state-of-the-technology landfills and recycling programs in the Middle East that significantly enhanced local environments in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.

While serving in the capacity of program manager, he provided management contributions to many large projects that included numerous professional disciplines such as architecture, civil, chemical, mechanical and environmental engineering, waste management, environmental science, geology, hydrogeology, health science, chemistry, biology and civil, chemical, mechanical and geotechnical engineering professionals. He conducted studies for mass grading of large complex residential and commercial developments and managed geologic mapping at a nuclear generating station.

He has also delivered speeches and given technical presentations to the boards of major corporations, professional groups, politicians and monarchs. [CV, Linked-In]