Jim Brenner is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in the States of Florida and Texas with over 30 years of accounting and financial leadership experience.

Jim is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and is a member of the Forensic and Valuation Services and Tax Sections of the AICPA. Jim has earned the Accredited in Business Valuations (ABV) designation by the AICPA and is fully qualified to provide full business valuation services, and consultations surrounding all aspects merger and acquisition activities. He is also a member of the Institute of Business Appraisers and the International Tax Forum.

Jim has extensive experience as either the lead, or the financial lead for small and large projects, having worked on approximately fifty (50) acquisition/divestiture projects, of which approximately 60% of them were closed. In support of these efforts, Jim has spent countless hours on due diligence initiatives, review of business data, developing financial models and working on negotiating points on behalf of his employers and clients.

From 1986 to 1990, Jim was Treasurer of Latin American Agribusiness Development Corporation with responsibilities for equity portfolio companies, fund movements, non-performing assets among other duties. From 1992-2003, Jim was Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Statia Terminals Group N.V., a publicly traded, oil and gas terminaling company that had revenues of approximately 200 million in 2002.

From 2006-2009, Jim was Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners Terminals Division. Kinder Morgan is a publicly traded, master limited partnership and one of the world’s largest pipeline and terminaling owner/operators with 2009 revenues of $7 billion.

While employed at Kinder Morgan Terminals, Jim led the division’s finance and accounting functions, including participation in numerous acquisition and divestiture projects.

Jim’s principal role with AquaSol is to lead or co-lead our aquaculture investment advisory services, aquaculture asset valuations, and the financial aspects of our aquaculture due diligence efforts.