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Christopher Kenny manages the ten-year old private Via Solar USA LLC. He has "lived, eaten,
and breathed" alternative hybrid energy solutions. His VS 1000 mobile hybrid solar generator was the first
device that Chris' company produced, and it came just in time for Hurricane Sandy that hit near his New Jersey home.
During that natural disaster, the ViaSolar generator was donated to the local police department to keep the power on.
Beyond his business mission to improve the technology and keep pace with new advances, Chris is also head of the non-profit
Preservation Earth Project. With "PEP" Chris and his sons traveled to the post-earthquake stricken
Haiti - on two occasions - and brought light, power and clean water to people suffering unimaginable conditions. Chris
expanded his manufacturing operations to Mississippi, and is now closer to the site of much of the natural damage suffered
in the Southeastern United States, as is seen with Hurricane Harvey. Early in his company's life, Chris and his engineers
introduced smaller hybrid generators and also developed remote solar lighting for municipal and highway signs. In more
recent years, Chris added integration of wind turbine and battery containment systems for mobile generation. He
has experience on Wall Street with such firms as Jefferies, Morgan Stanley and UBS, and is registered with FINRA 7, 24, 25,
63 and 65 for Corporate Finance, Trading and Sales. With his background in energy and the securities business,
in which he has developed some important trading algorithms, Chris Kenny has a good feel for both financial and practical
solutions to improve the human condition.
Subroto Das has spent three decades working across financial and social sectors. During his distinguished career, he has demonstrated a talent for moving deftly and effortlessly across and between the private sector, civil society, government agencies and the world of multinational corporate enterprises. Specifically, he has worked with HSBC, ING, Axis Bank and the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority of India. He is currently engaged in M&A advisory and corporate restructuring. Subroto has experience in business development and risk compliance, and is a payment systems expert. His experience as a financial sector regulator is especially important in view of the many opportunities that present themselves to the GCaps team from time to time that fall under the supervision of national regulatory regimes. Subroto Das is a popular speaker on financial topics in seminars and roundtables concerning capital markets and pension administration, which he regards as a personal specialty. A FinTech enthusiast, he comes to GCaps at an opportune time when many initiatives in finance and capital markets often are marked by elements of a growing digital ecosystem. Subroto holds a Master's Degree in Public Administration from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University with a focus on economic policy managemnet. He also holds a Masters of Business Administration from the Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi, and an Executive Masters in International Business from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. He has a FIrst Degree in Science from the University of Calcutta. With GCaps, Subroto will participate in initiatives that benefit from his particular experience and expertise, with a focus on India - and especially the excitement of GIFT City Gujarat - and the entire South and Southeast Asia terrain. As a practical matter, Subroto's knowledge of such activities as foreign exchange, securities custody, and forms of digital ledger technology are expected to be of immediate significance in view of some of the current projects in which members of GCaps are engaged.
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The Hon. Francois-G. Bidault is Former Honorary Consul of France in Puerto Rico. He was French Foreign
Trade Adviser from 1991 to 2004. Upon returning to civilian life, Francois settled in the United States and now resides
in New York. Francois has carried on a professional and business activity, with particular concentration in energy projects,
large-scale industrial construction, shipping, and consumer products. He brings to GCaps a broad scope of high-level
international business relationships and a wide range of personal expertise and experiences. We are delighted to have
His Excellency as part of the GCaps team, and a member of our International Advisory Council.
Phil Fricke
is an experienced investment banker and securities analyst, with more than 25 years specializing in automotive and diversified
industrial companies at LF Rothschild, Goldman Sachs, Prudential Securities, CIBC World Markets, and Wachovia Securities.
In those positions, Phil performed detailed financial statement analyses, conducted personal onsite meetings with CEOs,
CFOs, and senior operating management, produced economic analyses, developed financial forecasts, assessed absolute and relative
stock valuations metrics, wrote detailed economic and company reports, and advised companies – including organizing
“road shows” and meetings between company executives and institutional investors. Phil has
been a sought-after guest speaker at the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, FT of London, CNN, PBS, JD Powers, and the U.S.
Department of Commerce. He was recognized as an “All-Star” analyst by Institutional Investor
Magazine and was appointed to a Commerce Department committee to assess and make recommendations having to do with improving
U.S.-Japanese automotive parts trade. Phil has served on the boards of both private and public companies,
and currently Local.com Corp. His board of director experience includes both audit and corporate governance committee
work. He consulted MI Developments, Inc., with a brief to expand that firm's portfolio of industrial real estate properties
to Central and Eastern Europe. He is principal of his own advisory firm, PKF Financial Consultants, Inc.
Phil was an officer in the U.S. Army and holds an MBA in Corporate Finance and Economics from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Phil Fricke's addition to the GCaps team brings us the benefits of a new dimension in the world of corporate finance, securities
investments, and capital markets dynamics.
Robert Harris holds advisory positions with several companies
and professional organizations in the private, public and non-profit business sectors. Prior to his current activities and
during a career which spanned 25 years, he served in a variety of management positions on Wall Street with Citibank, Citicorp
and its successor, Citigroup. Robert's experience, expertise and background are rooted in finance, product management, fiduciary
administration and corporate trust operations. Following his banking career, he was appointed senior vice president with Sheffield
Consulting Associates, Ltd., a Bermuda-based firm where he specializes in strategic planning, the implementation of management
performance measurement systems and the amelioration of legacy information reporting applications for companies engaged in
financial services, telecommunications and alternative energy production. Robert is an expert in the disciplines of the Norton
Kaplan Balanced Scorecard and has helped many small and mid-size companies implement this process.
James Huey brings to GCaps an important association, with the benefit of reaching markets in China and in other regions (Australia, South-East Asia, and the South-West Pacific) served by his boutique advisory firm, China Westbridge Advisory Services. James has enjoyed a long career in international market sectors that have included retail, commercial, corporate and international banking, and in activities such as mergers, acquisitions and divestments, and due diligence, with a special skill in liaising with foreign counterparties and other advisers. An important extension of James Huey's experience is the ability to advise and provide discreet "on-the-ground" services for western companies seeking to establish relationships, or to target investments or acquisitions, in China. Over time, James has developed a keen sense of his market of operation, and is comfortable with the nuances of the Chinese business environment. His personal professional experience includes time spent in various functional roles in Australia and offshore. He was General Manager, for New South Wales, of Westpac Banking Corporation, leading a business with more than 10,000 employees and $19 billion in assets. James has held directorship positions with both public and private firms, and is a member of a number of professional and industry associations.  James Huey
Jeff Keily is a recent addition to the GCaps Energy Unit. His career experience falls into the specific area of energy systems and related equipment and services. Jeff spent more than fifteen years as a member of Tri-Power Trading Company, Inc. He continues to respond to opportunities in the energy sector where, among his past activities, he handled sales of such products as Bosch and Denso Industrial ignition components, as well as industrial parts for equipment of Cummins, Waukesha, and Caterpillar engines as well as Ariel cylinders. More recently, Jeff has been intermediating sales and service contracting for a large Indian gas compressor company - among the largest in the world. In the oil and gas sector, Jeff has acted on both buy- and sell-side transactions in heavy equipment, both in production and distribution. In the more distant past, Jeff has worked with current GCaps associates in the promotion and marketing of customized chemical solutions for owners and operators of oil wells, bulk storage tanks, and pipelines where problems are found in congestion of paraffin and asphaltenes that reduce product or incur heavy remediation costs. In that activity, Jeff has worked with his current GCaps associates in international applications that included Malaysia and parts of South America, on occasion supplying/advancing costs of field engineering teams in Southeast Asia. This is now an area where he is actively working with customers in both the Middle East North Africa region as well as Asia.
Jeff Keily Marc Wolf  Marc Wolf is the Chief Development Officer for the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York (JCRC-NY), which serves as the proactive central coordinating and resource organization for the Jewish community in the eight-county New York metropolitan area. Marc has more than a decade of fundraising experience in both Jewish and military not-for-profits, including the national Medal of Honor Museum, Navy SEAL Foundation (NSF), Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) and UJA-Federation of New York (UJA). He is active in various philanthropic and civic activities, including American Friends of Israel Navy SEALs, Jewish War Veterans, the Jewish Theological Seminary's Center for Pastoral Education, NSF, JFNA and Texas A&M University Hillel. Marc is a former U.S. Naval Intelligence Officer assigned to Naval Special Warfare, and earned a bachelor's degree from Texas A&M University, a graduate certificate from the George Bush School of Government and Public Service and an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis. He is also an Eagle Scout, enjoys tennis, ice climbing, and is most proud of being an uncle to two sets of twin nephews.
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