Managers

William W. (Bill) Kerr

Bryan H. Corrigan

William P. Huckin

Strategic Relationships

BKI, Inc.-Consulting Ecologists

 

William W. (Bill) Kerr

Mr. Kerr has had more than 25 years of environmental experience across Florida involving all aspects of development, permitting, mitigation, and conservation. Mr. Kerr is the President and owner of BKI, Inc - Consulting Ecologists. Mr. Kerr has served on the board of many local, state, and federal organizations, including the East Central Florida Regional Planning Council, Chairman of the East Central Florida Marine Resource Council, Citizen Chair for the Indian River Lagoon National Estuary Programs, and Chairman of the Brevard County Land Banking and Critical Habitat Ad Hoc Committee. Most importantly, Mr. Kerr was appointed by the Governor of Florida to serve on the St. John’s River Water Management District Governing Board from April 1999 to May 2008, and he served as Chairman from November 1999 to November 2001. Mr. Kerr is a 4th generation Floridian whose family has been involved with drainage and irrigation engineering in the region since 1937. He has owned and operated an environmental firm in Florida for over 25 years and is one of the founding partners of NeoVerde, LLC. Mr. Kerr’s key network of relationships within private, government, environmental, conservation, planning and oversight organizations give him a unique basis for the permitting and management of environmentally sensitive lands. He is also actively involved in all forms of land management, conservation and land preservation across the region. Mr. Kerr earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Stetson University in Deland, Florida. Mr. Kerr is married with two sons.

Bryan H. Corrigan

Mr. Corrigan has had 10 years of real estate experience and has directly acquired, refinanced, managed, or sold over $1.5 billion of real estate assets. Mr. Corrigan has been involved in the formation and permitting of one of the largest mitigation banks in Florida on his family’s cattle ranch near Vero Beach. Mr. Corrigan has been a partner of ValQuest Equity Partners in Dallas, Texas for the last 3 years and is a founding partner of NeoVerde, LLC. Mr. Corrigan earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin in 1999 and a Master of Business Administration from the Fuqua School of Business in 2006. Mr. Corrigan is married with a son.

William P. Huckin

Mr. Huckin has had 8 years of real estate experience in finance, acquisition, leasing and operational management of over $100 million of assets. Mr. Huckin founded his own marketing firm with operations in the United States and China and recently sold the company before founding NeoVerde, LLC with Mr. Corrigan and Mr. Kerr. Mr. Huckin also has more than 4 years of private equity experience in oil and gas, real estate, venture capital, and debt portfolio management. Mr. Huckin earned his Bachelor of Science from the University of Texas at Austin in 2000 and Master of Business Administration from Southern Methodist University in 2006. Mr. Huckin is married with a daughter.

Strategic Relationships

BKI, Inc. - Consulting Ecologists

BKI has had over 25 years of experience and has grown into a premier environmental consulting firm in the East Central Coast of Florida. The company has an excellent rapport with Federal, State, and Local regulatory agencies involved in all aspects of environmental permitting. The staff brings an in-depth understanding of the environmental regulations which develops from years of professional experience. The professional relationship BKI has developed with these agencies is a key benefit to the Investment Team. BKI provides a link between worthwhile development and sound environmental planning by offering comprehensive ecological and research consulting in the areas of project coordination, quality environmental planning and design, feasibility studies and assessments, wetland delineation, wetland mapping, wetland identification, wetland permitting, wetland mitigation, wetland construction, wetland design, wetland restoration, wetland monitoring, wetland maintenance, endangered species surveys, endangered species habitat assessments, endangered species conservation plans, habitat and ecosystem management, water quality sampling and management, and phase 1 hazardous waste assessment.

BKI, Inc Projects Include:

Wetland Restoration, Monitoring, and Mitigation Projects

Mary A Mitigation Bank – 2,100 acre mitigation bank
Phillips Landing – 80.2 acre mitigation restoration and monitoring
Micco Road Project – road expansion and borrow pit mitigation
Parker Plaza – 10.63 acre mitigation
Florida Department of Transportation – 9,600 restoration and monitoring

Environmental Assessment Projects over 5,000 acres

Southern Farms – 7,000 acres
Hilliard Citrus – 15,000 acres
Strazzula Brothers – 6,000 acres
Allapattah Properties – 25,000 acres
Pine Groves – 5,000 acres
Crittenden Fruit company – 12,000 acres
Smith Brothers – 8,000 acres
Ascot Development – 5,000 acres

Other Recent Environmental Projects

Henscratch Ranch – 3,000 acres
Lott Ranch - 1200 acres
Goodno Panther Conservation Bank - 9200 acres
Abby Marina – 28 acres