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Anthony Fuller (Tony) is a highly skilled senior executive who recently completed a 30 year career with Walmart. He began his career as a store associate and retired as Senior Vice President. Tony has been privileged to work with, and provide counsel to the last five CEO’s of the Walmart, and to provide leadership in many areas. Tony has a good understanding of the challenges faced by growing companies, and the governance needed to insure future growth. He is experienced at leading global efforts. He is deeply committed to the development of strong organizations. Among his many projects he successfully led the creation of a multiple, in-house REIT structure for a portfolio in excess of 500 million square feet, resulting in significant savings. He chaired the REIT governance committee for over 15 years, dealing with compliance and governance issues along the way. Ultimately, he was responsible for leading the dissolution of the REIT’s and conversion to a system of business trusts.

In addition, he led the restructure of Walmart’s indirect procurement efforts. His team was responsible for dispersing more than $2 billion per year for items as diverse as supplies and structural steel. Under Tony’s leadership the team developed and implemented strategies to achieve global leverage and move the point of procurement upstream for certain commodities. During this period the team also revamped the supply chain and warehouse network, enabling stores to open more quickly, at a greatly reduced cost.

In the past, Tony served as Chairman of the Board of Texas Retail Energy, which was initially responsible for the procurement of energy in Texas for Walmart’s retail operations. They subsequently expanded this operation to all deregulated markets in the United States, as well as the United Kingdom.
On an international scale, Tony was one of twelve who served on Walmart’s Global Sustainability Steering Committee, providing direction for all sustainability efforts. Renewable energy projects utilizing solar, wind and fuel cells were developed and implemented by our team. Walmart is still recognized as a global leader on this front. For over 20 years Tony led the teams which provided both Property Management and Maintenance for Walmart’s global portfolio. During this time the portfolio grew from under 1000 stores in 20 states in the United States, to almost 10,000 stores in all fifty states, and 23 countries around the world. The team led by Tony developed and implemented systems to support and leverage this growth. Analysis was constantly done to determine which activities should be done in-house and which should be outsourced.

In the area of real estate, Tony had the responsibility of developing a strategy for the redevelopment of stores and sale of land and buildings. As Walmart converted from a discount store operator to a Supercenter-based company, hundreds of properties became excess and were in need of redevelopment. The organization we developed was a full service real estate development company and was successful in redeveloping and selling over 200 million square feet of retail space, enabling the rapid development of the Supercenter format. Throughout his service in this area he served as the chairman of the transaction committee as well as real estate finance committee. In addition, he was involved in the development of over 100 distribution centers ranging in size from 250,000 to 4 million square feet. His involvement began with the long term planning process where the future need and geographic areas were determined. Tony then led the team responsible for site selection, design and construction of the facilities, insuring that the infrastructure and incentives necessary to support the projects were in place.

Another one of Tony’s teams was tasked with selling to other users the land adjacent to the retail operations, in an effort to create an even stronger retail destination. Well over $1.5 billion of adjacent land was developed in this fashion. Significant local market research was required. Web-based marketing efforts were developed, with significant focus on building strong win-win relationships. Within the retail operations space was leased to a variety of local and national users. While this was originally developed as a complement to Walmart’s retail operation, it grew to an operation with an income stream approaching $1 billion per year.

The responsibility for opening new stores and completing remodels of existing stores in all markets around the world was carried out by his organization. They devised new strategies for restructuring those functions, allowing the organization to lower costs during a period of explosive growth. Governance was installed as our capital investment grew to the level of $2 billion per year. Staffing and training of new store associates was done under the direction of this team, which was also charged with installing and preserving the corporate culture.

Kim is an accomplished business leader and professional coach who utilizes her experience, education and skill sets to go beyond the role of a traditional consultant or coach to become a key member of your team. Through her unique approach, she will learn your enterprise and leadership needs to help you achieve your most important goals and overcome your most pressing concerns.

Kim has over 20 years of business and executive experience in one of the world’s most successful companies. During her accomplished corporate tenure, she held officer roles leading the company’s global compliance and energy organizations, as well as leadership roles across the real estate division. She has a wealth of retail experience with a focus on establishing and managing external partner relations. Her vast experience includes the development of new businesses, strategic planning and process implementation, profit & loss responsibility in excess of $1B, and corporate organization alignment. As the Vice President of Energy for Walmart, she developed the company’s US renewable procurement strategy and led the team responsible for implementation, resulting in significant renewable growth, millions of dollars in energy expense savings and Walmart’s recognition by SEIA as the US’s largest onsite generator of solar energy. She also served as Executive Champion within the Wal-Mart Global Sustainability Network leading the implementation of renewable and energy efficiency projects among global operating divisions. Core strengths include creating individual talent and enterprise wide organizational structure, developing high performing individuals resulting in high performing teams, and integrating key metrics linking effective strategy and leadership to bottom line results.

In addition to her corporate experience, Kim served as a member of the Department of Energy’s distinguished Clean Energy, Education and Empowerment Ambassador Group and as a member of the Board of Directors for Solar Sister and Empower-A-Child, international non-profit organizations working to empower women and children in developing countries through entrepreneurship, education and targeted development programs. She is a Board Certified Executive and Leadership Coach, a Licensed Professional Counselor (inactive) and a Licensed Attorney.

Tony Fuller

Kim Saylors-Laster

David Ozment

David Ozment is an experienced energy executive with a demonstrated history of working in the retail industry with the world's largest retailer, with a major investor owned utility, as well as a startup energy company representing businesses making renewable and clean tech energy decisions.

Before joining the Barnabas Team, David served as SVP of Customer Engagement with Black Bear Energy helping develop business opportunities in the areas of onsite solar, fuel cells, battery storage, LED lighting, and other clean technology opportunities.

At Walmart David headed up the Regulated Utility side of the business, Renewable Energy, and Regulatory Affairs functions. While leading renewable energy deal origination efforts, Walmart installed over 350 solar systems across the U.S. including rooftop solar, solar tracking, and solar shaded parking structures; began installing EV Charging Stations at targeted locations; began testing and using battery storage; installed over 50 fuel cell systems; entered into large offsite wind PPAs; and negotiated the company’s first large scale solar purchase agreement with a utility. During his time at Walmart the company was recognized by the EPA Green Power Program as having the most installed onsite generation in the U.S. on multiple occasions.

Prior to Walmart David spent a number of years in the electric utility industry holding a number of management and senior management positions including operations, marketing, business development and regulatory. Those experiences have been very beneficial in developing relationships with the utility industry and growing renewable energy opportunities with utilities.

David graduated from the University of Arkansas and attended executive management development programs at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business and Oklahoma State University.