Kurt Meadows Email & Phone Number

Charlotte Metro

• Created new utilities and infrastructure business unit for RJA
• Project lead; achieved financial close of a $225M transaction for the University of Idaho's long-term lease of biomass district energy plant
• Project lead; achieved financial close of $115M transaction (+$50M of Energy Conservation Measures and immediate infrastructure funding) of combined heat and power plant and utility infrastructure at Eastern Michigan.
• Over $650mm of successfully financed/constructed/renovated projects
• Advise universities and municipalities on large-scale capital projects (power generation, infrastructure, real estate); including strategy, financial analysis, risk transfer, transition planning, and program management

Charlotte Metro

• Global BrightLight (GBL) was a non-profit organization, started by Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers, that sold solar lamps to the 1.4B people in the world that don't have access to electricity. The goal of the organization.
• Maintained & managed budgets, sales, donations, tax filings, banking & import/export relationships
• Helped the GBL team place 60,000+ solar lanterns in 7 countries; ~250,000 people breathing cleaner air, reducing respiratory risks, and enabling children/citizens to study/learn after the sun goes down
• Project managed creation of mobile site, including PayPal interface

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

• Strategic planning for Southeastern U.S. real estate development initiatives. Responsibilities included financial modeling, regional plans, and manufacturing workforce programming. Work products included financial.
• Led Charlotte, NC and Greenville, SC markets in the areas of manufacturing, demand planning, regional plans, and optimization of ROA, profit, and staffing metrics.
• Created and led proposal to senior management for bitcoin treasury initiative (~$400mm at $11k/btc in early 2018)

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

• Created JLL's Blockchain (Bitcoin) department to study blockchains, distributed systems, cryptocurrencies, mining, and potential use-cases by partnering with global C-Level leaders and their teams. Advise JLL [India].
• Responsible for monthly C-Suite presentations and reporting on blockchain, applications and use-cases, and impact to core business. Published monthly internal articles and 4 white papers for Corporate Strategy and.
• Proposed case for bitcoin holdings for JLL Treasury (~$500mm free cash-flow at $4k/btc in 2017)
• Engaged with 2nd largest U.S. financial institution to perform financial modeling and advisory services for real estate investments and strategy; 20MM+ square feet, 3,000+ sites, and $2B+ in total lease and.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

• Consulted for internal business units on acquisition prospects presented to executive-level management
• Developed current and future-state business cases for staffing models post-merger with Progress Energy
• Conducted analysis to initiate and support development of Corporate Headquarters Relocation Strategy ($500M+ in total project costs)
• Led due diligence on sale of Tier III data center in Northern Kentucky to CyrusOne as part of relocation/colocation efforts for primary data centers
• Developed operating strategy to optimize $150M of real estate assets by creating a liquidation schedule, asset-ranking methodology, lease renegotiation strategy, and a tax reclassification framework for asset disposal.
• Performed NPV/IRR investment analysis for assets across 6 states

Charlotte Metro

Supported various business units at Duke Energy during the merger with Progress Energy.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Co-Founder of startup web application for software developers to share "snippets" of software code with other programmers. Similar to GitHub in that we let software developers host code, share code, and vote on useful entries, but we hosted individual pieces of software code instead of downloading an entire application to then search for what you need..

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Co-Founder of startup bringing helmet cameras to American football. Involved in the engineering and spec design of helmet camera system, product testing, supply chain formation, and pitching completed product to Silicon Valley Venture Capital firms and Angel Investors.

Greater Atlanta Area

Merger integration with Northwest Airlines