GROUNDED INFRASTRUCTURE - Key Persons
Brady Edholm is a international development, finance, and business strategy professional with broad global experience and an expertise in emerging economies. Having lived and done business in Iraq both Baghdad and Erbil for almost 5 years, he has gained a unique understanding of overcoming the obstacles needed to succeed in post- conflict countries.
Most recently he was the Portfolio Manager of IMMDF, a organization that has thus far lent between 50 and 100 million dollars to the Iraqi-private sector. His experience includes previous assignments in development finance consulting, corporate finance, infrastructure finance, and the investment fund industry.
Job Titles:
- Chief Operating Officer
- Vice Chairman
Job Titles:
- President and Founder of Spain Consulting
- President, SCWN
Jim Spain is President and founder of Spain Consulting and Wireless Networks (SCWN). Jim retired from the US Army Signal Corps (USASC) in 2012, and over the past 6 years, he has established a wireless Point-to-Point network covering 1,800 square miles in north east Arkansas. His expertise lies in designing and constructing high-speed, wireless broadband networks in remote locations. Video cameras, sensors, and voice over IP have all been integrated into Jim Spain's networks for both commercial and residential purposes.
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- President, Leading Edge Group, Inc
Leading Edge Group, Inc. is Involved in activities that focus on the advancement of earthen construction technology for housing and commercial projects around the world. When used with lime plaster and paint, it is ideally suited for building elegant courtyard communities that support sustainable, breathable building materials. It is indispensable wherever conventional building materials such as concrete, wood or steel are in short supply and often times expensive.
Leading Edge Group equipment provides direct support for military training application, in-theater construction projects, and for use in hostile, combat operational environments as an effective safety barrier. The soil blocks produced provide an accurate replica of an urban operational environment which can support a wide variety of combat training requirements.
Job Titles:
- Senior Vice President
- Senior Vice President, Talia
Joel Allen is the Senior Vice President, International Business Development for Energy and Public Sectors for Talia and the head of Talia's U.S. office.
Allen has thirty years of experience in the U.S. domestic and international telecom/Internet Protocol (IP) Sectors. He specializes in a focus on infrastructure strategy, regulatory matter, business development, partnerships and wales and marketing of services and systems.
Allen has performed advisory services for the voice, data, video and ISP incumbent carriers in Iraq and Afghanistan focusing on worldwide infrastructure strategy, sourcing, planning, acquisition and management.
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- Finance / Managing Director: Interlink Capital Strategies
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- Business Support Services Afghanistan
Mr. Chaney provides the US Government and corporate business a broad horizon of experience. He lends his background to all levels of client support both vertically and horizontally. He has conducted border security surveys, emergency evacuation planning, training of security forces, and the protection of cargo and executives worldwide. He has conducted these programs in support of the United States Government and corporate clients in the United States and overseas. He is recognized as an expert in the DOD and civilian security arena. Mr. Chaney retired from the U.S. Army Special Operations Command having served in the 5th Special Forces Group, 7th Special Forces Group, 1st BN 75th Rangers, and a designated special mission unit. Mr. Chaney is a multi-theater combat veteran.
Since his retirement from the Special Operations Command, Mr. Chaney has served as a Program Manager, Senior Program Manager, and Director for such organizations as Sytex Group, Lockheed Martin, Specialized Transport International, and ManTech Corporation.
Mr. Chaney has conducted programs with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Center of Disease Control (CDC) to develop, prepare, and supervise the security operations at United States Government vaccine repositories that is the national response to a Weapon of Mass Destruction biological or chemical attack. While conducting the Weapons of Mass Destruction support at the highest levels of the United States Government, Mr. Chaney supported US allies in the operational intelligence and training for the combating of known terrorist and insurgent activities.
He has also served as a subject matter expert for the Joint Staff J-34. He was part of a five person team that wrote the first J-34 Anti-Terrorism / Force Protection Manual to be used as the standard in the development of force protection plans DOD wide. Mr. Chaney has conducted Anti-Terrorism Force Protection (ATFP) assessments worldwide for some the most sensitive locations of both in the United States and throughout NATO.
Mr. Chaney has worked in very fluid and politically sensitive programs, but none more so than as a member of four Olympics planning and operational support cells in 1984, 1988, 1996, and 2004.
Mr. Chaney holds a current Top Secret security clearance.
Job Titles:
- Chief Operating Officer
- Vice CHairman
- International Consulting
Sam Wyman directs international political advocacy campaigns and assists corporate clients who seek to enter or expand international markets. Mr. Wyman is particularly experienced in matters related to information and communications technology, security, ad defense and aerospace industries.
For 31 years, Sam Wyman was professionally engaged by the U.S. government in the Near East, Western Europe and Africa. Following that, he co-founded Jefferson Waterman International, which advises businesses on geo-political affairs and operating in international business environments.
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- Assistant Director for the Global Healthcare
- Director, U.S. Water Cooperative
- Founder of U.S. Water Cooperative
Taylor Reed Branson is the founder of U.S. Water Cooperative, which represents several of the world's most advanced water purification technologies. Taylor uses his background and experience in public health to lead the U.S. Water Cooperative in its drive to cleanse the ever growing demand for safe water.
Taylor has served as the Assistant Director for the Global Healthcare for the non-profit, Gesundheit Institute. In addition, Taylor completed numerous state and national lobbying campaigns involving healthcare reform, human rights, and environmental advocacy. In 2019, Taylor was inducted as a member of the International Society for the Royal Ethiopian Orders for his support of Prince Ermias Sahle-Selassie's Water Initiative for Africa.