Cresswell Ventures Has A Seasoned Team

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Kenny Greer is an accomplished entrepreneur and business leader with extensive experience founding, financing, operating, and advising companies across diverse industries.  With a background spanning investment banking, executive leadership, entrepreneurship, private equity, real estate development, board membership, and consulting, Kenny has the ideal credentials for acquiring and scaling a privately-held company.  He thrives on intellectual curiosity and finding new business opportunities.  Kenny aims to continue applying his decades of experience and passion for company building to drive sustainable growth.

As an executive, Kenny helped guide established companies before founding his own merchant bank, Blue Sage Advisory.  He then started Green Sage, a cannabis real estate development and management firm, and managed numerous development projects over an 8 year period.  Green Sage developed and managed properties in Denver, Las Vegas, Vancouver and Oakland, where it leased up and built out a 500,000 SF industrial cannabis production facility until the project ended in late 2022.  Kenny founded Cresswell in 2023 to identify an exceptional company to acquire and grow.

Kenny matriculated from The Lawrenceville School and went on to graduate Summa Cum Laude from Cornell University with a degree in Sociology.  He launched a career in Investment Banking at Wachovia Capital Markets in Charlotte & London before earning an MBA from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.  Kenny lives between Denver, Colorado and La Jolla, California.  In his spare time he enjoys playing squash and all racquet sports, skiing, cooking, playing guitar, live music, and traveling. 

 Jim is a seasoned and effective operational and financial leader with 20+ years of experience working with a diverse set of companies ranging from entrepreneurial start-ups to Fortune 500 entities.  As the founder of Wisdom Financial Partners, Jim has consulted with many small to mid-sized companies, fostering their financial and operational success.  Jim utilizes his experience, business acumen, finance/accounting knowledge, leadership experience, and problem-solving abilities to create tremendous success for start-up and early-stage clients across numerous industries.

Prior to consulting, Jim enjoyed 15+ years of executive Director of Finance and CFO roles and has lead Finance, Accounting, HR and IT departments, excelling at leveraging IT solutions and technology. Jim has experience writing operational manuals, building models, forecasts, reports and budgets for dozens of business entities. 

Jim earned his dual bachelor’s degree in Economics and Philosophy from Radford University and holds his MBA (with concentration in Strategic Management and Organizational Development) from the University of Colorado. He volunteers with Junior Achievement (teaching math and business to high school students) and has served on numerous boards as Director, Treasurer, and Finance Chair.