Grant Writing and Business Consulting

Brad has over thirty years of experience in grant writing, fundraising, lending, and business consulting. 

He is the former political director for the nation's largest PAC, and finance director for the chairman of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee. He is a former registered federal, state, and state procurement lobbyist. He has worked for three of the nation's five largest financial institutions in securities and banking compliance. 

Brad is the former director of communications for the state of Arizona’s IT agency, and Arizona State University’s education technology think tank. He has graded grants in national competitions and served as Chairman and CEO of nonprofit organizations.

Brad has written successful grants in the fields of renewable energy, microgrids, battery storage, broadband, transportation, housing, education technology, public safety, and animal rescue. He has done grant research and white papers on a number of topics including driverless vehicles, robotics, energy storage, plastics recycling, wastewater nanotechnology, transactive energy, the electric grid, currency trading, and collateralized securities for renewable energy projects. 

Brad started in grant writing helping animal rescue organizations pro bono in 1985. He wrote the first grant ever accepted by a Federal United Way for animal rescue and has run three animal rescue organizations. The picture to the right is Brad with two rescued Russian Wolfhounds. (Today they call them by their Russian name - Borzoi - which means swift).

In college, he competed in debate, finishing second in the nation, and won his school's highest scholarship for leadership.