Gerald Franz
President
Mr. Franz has over 30 years of experience in a broad scope of areas including Environmental Science/Urban Planning, University Teaching, and Environmental and Business Development Consulting. After teaching in the early 70’s he became the director of the Environmental unit of the NYC Department of City Planning; then in the late 70’s founded and managed McKeown & Franz Inc. (MFI), a premier environmental consulting firm in NYC. The Trump Organization, Forest City Ratner and several NYS agencies were included among hundreds of MFI clients. In the mid 90’s after completing a number of investment deals with a major MFI client/investor Mr. Franz became a business development consultant as CEO of Insight Capital LLC which advised companies and investors on disruptive technology investments and IPO’s. In 2002 he helped found and became CEO of Ecovive LLC, an environmental technology/products company. Currently he is the Senior Partner of Strategic Business Development Partners Inc. (SBDP) in NYC.
