Kim Denney Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas Area

Newport is a unique national business advisory firm that offers experience-based, client-centric solutions that help CEOs and owners of middle market companies grow, de-risk, and realize their company’s value. I’m bilingual in business – translating the language of Engineering to Leadership (and vice versa) to help organizations thrive. As an experienced.

Houston, Texas Area

Joule Processing was acquired by green hydrogen energy power house Plug Power in January of 2022. Joule was a privately held firm providing custom-engineered equipment solutions for hydrogen liquefaction, natural gas processing, treating and liquids handling. Headquartered in Houston, Joule has a customer-service-focused team, experienced and knowledgeable.

Houston, Texas Area

Owner received 2018 E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year, reflecting results from 2017 and prior years. The largest commercial recycler in the Americas, applying Smart Technology and Analytics to reduce business waste and increase recycling. NaturaZero 2.0 is a “knowledge based platform” rooted in 30 years of industry experience to increase the Capture Percentage.

• Reporting to CEO, enabling the business by transforming corporate support teams including Information Technology, Procurement, Health-Safety-Environment-Security, and Quality and Process Improvement.
• Radical improvement in communication and business alignment while steadily decreasing fixed costs and increasing efficiencies/repeatable cost cutting efforts ($7MM/yr to $12.4MM/yr. in savings)
• Evaluating, contracting and transitioning to new outsourced IT service providers; improving service while saving over $2MM/yr.
• Strategic renewal of the HSES and QPI organizations.

Reporting to CEO and Internal Board - Driving the vision and strategic planning for distributor and direct cylinder business. Successfully turned around a failing business utilizing very few resources, while reinvesting, improving the balance sheet and creating a confident/strong team with clear succession planning. Significant improvement in revenue.

Houston, Texas Area

Responsible for logistics and distribution, customer installation and maintenance, and strategic planning for all bulk industrial gas products in the US. (>$600MM/yr sales, 700 employees) Integrated distribution operations of major acquisition – MG Industries.

Baton Rouge, LA

General Management responsibility for 13 production facilities at 4 sites. Collaborated on unified sales approach to expand upon $150MM/year in sales of pipeline industrial gases and utilities (water, cogenerated steam and power) to include liquid and cylinder sales, resulting in an often-copied approach to the market.

Houston, TX Area

Progressively increasing sales responsibility for pipeline industrial gases and utilities (water and cogenerated steam) of up to $120MM/yr, while managing the development of multiple Commercial Managers including expats from India, Australia and China. Developed chemical market industry analysis and customer segmentation, integrated global key account.

Houston, Texas Area

Secured the efficient, reliable North American purchase and transportation of natural gas, electricity, coal and residual oil, including associated activities such as hedging, monitoring of FERC activity, intervention in utility rate cases and coordination with multiple, remote internal consumers of this $190MM/yr of energy.

Houston, Texas Area

Operationally oversaw design, construction, start-up and operation of a 1.5 B pound/yr ($500MM) olefins complex with initial responsibility for the early, on-budget operations of the OSBL utility, feedstock import, and product export capability; unifying the entire facility as the single operations superintendent for all production following start-up and.

Laporte, Texas

Progressed from Engineer to Production Superintendent in the utilities and methanol production areas of a residual oil fed synthesis gas plant. Other responsibilities included: trainer in Quality Systems, Belle West Virginia task force to eliminate hazardous methyl isocyanate transport, Chair of the Emergency Response Committee and Adminstrator for the.

Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Bs, Chemical Engineering

Women'S Director Development Program

Executive Leadership Program, Global Managers