CCI was founded by Tim King and Ryan Skinner – two individuals who care deeply about the environment and the communities in which they live and work.
Tim and Ryan also care about the planet and what it’s going to be like for their grandchildren. They care about long-term economic health and sustainability. They care about creating livable-wage jobs that will reinvigorate a stagnant job market. Even better, they don’t support greed. Or making a buck at the expense of others. Or winning if it means someone has to lose.
As business leaders, they value people and truly believe everyone should share in success – from employees and business partners to customers and the surrounding community. By employing individuals and building partnerships with people who share common values, CCI and its subsidiaries have an opportunity to spread the wealth.
Instead of significant margins to drive profits, pricing will be fair and employees and partners will have an opportunity for profit sharing. In addition, employees and partners will be encouraged to share CCI’s vision, mission and values to increase awareness about its sustainable business model.
Team Members
Tim King, President and CEO
Tim has 30-plus years of agro-economics, environmental science and biofuels expertise, and he’s provided consulting and management services in carbon cycle systems for renewable bio-energy, fuels and chemicals. Previously, Tim worked for 25 years at the United States Department of Agriculture SCS-NRCS in Nevada, Washington, Idaho and the Pacific Rim Region.
Tim also served as USDS Technical service center Director for the Pacific Rim Regional RC&D Carbon Technology Transfer Center funded by Cquest Corporation. He is the founder of Carbon Technology Transfer Center, and has detailed and diverse experience in the operations of production facilities and technologies.
Tim graduated from Washington State University (WSU) with a BS degree in Forest and Range Management in 1975. He also earned a BS in Agronomy and Soil Science from WSU. He did graduate studies 1989 in Silviculture, also at WSU.
Notable accomplishments:
- Created first “Global Releaf” forest via carbon credit sales to MasterCard Corporation on public lands.
- Developed the first private lands title easement for sale of carbon sequestration credits; sold over 50,000 tons of private land owner credits to the PacificCorp utilities in 1991-92.
- In 1993-95, sold over 500,000 tons of private landowner carbon credits to Tenaska Corporation partners.
- In 1999, partnered with RC&D and Cquest to produce fully insured and verified tradable carbon credits.
- Mr. King has provided consulting and training to over twenty states, Alberta provincial government, Russian national forest managers, Beijing University Forest Department, Hobe province in China, and provincial governors of Vietnam.
Ryan Skinner, Vice President
Ryan has broad experience in sales, marketing and operations with an emphasis on responsible business growth. His experience includes:
- managing the opening of a regional branch for Penske Truck Leasing, the second largest truck leasing company in North America.
- creating the systems that incorporate the participation of 170 regional sales representatives of Sysco Systems for Coastal Marketing, a regional Food Service Brokerage Company in Western Washington.
- launching an entrepreneurial brick-and-mortar health food store with successful Internet and coffee-roasting divisions, which was later acquired by Harvest Foods, a regional chain of grocery stores.
- providing leadership and direction on the recovery of two failing multi-million dollar projects with Allied Floors — both projects were successfully turned around and completed on time.
During his ownership of the health food store, Ryan realized his passion was not only in the health of others, but also in the health of the planet and the economy. It was these ideals that brought him to Tim King, where together they have built a family of brands at CCI to address long-term local and global sustainability.
Ryan attended South Puget Sound Community College and University of Oregon.
Michael Mooney, Chief Financial Officer
Mike is experienced in creating value added systems via hands-on involvement and mobilizing teams to accomplish corporate goals. He has worked in large multi-national corporate environments for 25 years, and was part of a management and investment team that secured financing to purchase a money-losing Bayer Corporation division and returned it to profitability in under a year.
Mike later worked with a number of smaller, stand-alone companies, including a publicly traded 100-year-old company where he helped create systems which made it possible to file an acceptable SEC Form 10 and raise significant public funding. He brings a strong skill set in the areas of leadership and management, analytical problem solving, and organization and planning.
Arnie Marchand, Native American & First Nations Business Development Director
Arnie has a wide variety of experience that lends itself to a pioneering project such as Okanogan Solar. In 1986, he began as an independent consultant, contracting with the Colville Tribal Planning Department to prepare planning grants, museum projects, economic development initiatives and land-use planning initiatives.
He was later hired by the Colville Confederated Tribes as a land use and economic development planner and worked for the tribe in various capacities until 2005.
Since that time, Arnie has returned to acting as an independent consultant, with a primary emphasis on economic development. He currently sits on a variety of committees, including the Okanogan County Economic Development Council, North Central Washington Economic Development District, Okanogan County Tourism Board, International Via 97 Committee and a host of others.
Team Advisors
Melinda Briana Epler and Jon Sumple, Branding & Marketing
Melinda is a Community Engagement Strategist dedicated to empowering social businesses and not-for-profit organizations to have greater positive impact. She has spent more than 20 years learning how to effectively create sustainable social change by strategically designing and cultivating social change initiatives. Melinda has 15 years of experience as a strategic planner for large organizations, and 20 years of experience an award-winning, multi-channel storyteller for local non-profits and global Fortune 50 companies.
Jon is an Integrated Messaging Strategist dedicated to creating stories that engage, educate and activate target audiences through a wide range of media. He has spent more than 25 years asking corporate executives one basic question: “How can I help you?” Jon has consulted with c-level leaders at Fortune 500 companies – as well as start-up entrepreneurs – to help them uncover growth opportunities, eliminate obstacles and find better ways to achieve their marketing goals.
Wanna Choy, Federal Governmental Liaison
Wanna is a successful real estate broker, investor and entrepreneur with more than 15 years of experience in both residential and commercial real estate and property management. She was the state broker and national marketing director for a multi-million dollar national real estate and mortgage company before opening her own brokerage firm, Pacific Star Realty. Some of her many commercial real estate accomplishments include co-developing a 66-acre regional shopping center, as well as marketing and selling nationally recognized chain restaurants, branded service stations and other businesses.
Wanna is the Seattle Local Chapter President of the National Association of Professional Women (NAPW). She is very passionate about giving back to her community by volunteering at various nonprofit agencies on her free time. She is bilingual and speaks English and Cantonese. Wanna majored in marketing at Portland State University and has degrees in Business Administration and Real Estate Brokerage Management.
Randy Suko, State Governmental Liaison
In addition, Randy is a highly skilled senior-level strategic analyst and administrator. He has solid experience in developing new public and private organizations, and he has acted as an executive director, advisor and manager designing and implementing new business functions and administrative processes in a variety of settings. He also has policy expertise working in the public sector with many local and state government entities and elected officials.
Randy graduated with a BA in Political Science and a minor in Economics from Central Washington University. He also undertook graduate training in Public Administration at the University of Washington with a focus on organizational development and management.
Sandra Lum, Managing Director – Asia Pacific
Sandra is an accomplished entrepreneur and strategic consultant with business projects spanning two continents and numerous counties within the United States. She speaks English, Japanese, Cantonese and Mandarin, and has focused her business development and real estate development efforts in San Francisco, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Washington State.Robert Underwood, Director – China Business Development
Jeremy Cheng, Managing Director – Greater China Region
Jeremy has 15+ years of experience in entrepreneurship, client services, IT operations and project management. Most recently, he led a team of senior and principal engineers in managing all of Microsoft’s research and development datacenters worldwide. Prior to Microsoft, he served as the Director of IT at Imagekind, Inc., and was actively involved in IT management strategy, business operations, web application architecture and implementation. Before Imagekind, Jeremy was the Technical Services Manager at Vigilos, Inc., where he managed the IT infrastructure and network-based enterprise security management systems in both production and development environments; a product used by FBI, US Navy, WSDOT, Global Crossing, Pemco Insurance, and Holland America.
He is currently the managing director of Metacentrix, a management consultancy that provides end-to-end technology and business development solutions to clients located in Seattle, Los Angeles and the Greater China Region.
Jeremy holds a BS in Informatics and BA in Economics from the University of Washington.
Andre' Henderson, Energy Efficiency Specialist
A former Senior Electrical Design Engineer at SpectraDyne/SpectraVison, Andre’ holds patents on remote controls used in the lodging industry. He also successfully worked as a design engineer on a joint-effort between SpectraDyne, Micropolis and EDS in the creation of the lodging industry’s first store-and-forward video system, today known as video on demand. Before entering the energy sector, Andre’ used his vast experience in the semiconductor industry to connect at senior levels with OEM and manufacturer representative and distribution companies as a field applications engineer.
He is currently the President of Advanced NRG Solutions, which works in service-oriented sectors related to industries from solar to oil and gas to bio and other energy alternative solutions. His firm also facilitates the creation of joint ventures, letters of intent, purchase order terms, interpretation of technical data and presentations to organizations from engineering to executive level audiences.
