Garrett Kephart

Background

Garrett Kephart is co-Founder, President and CEO of Earth Finance. Garrett helps corporations create business value from energy and nature. He is a corporate executive with more than 20 years of management consulting and entrepreneurial experience across consumer, public, and industrial sectors. Garrett started three companies over the last 10 years, including Earth Finance Inc., which addresses the gaps between strategy, policy, and finance for corporations, investors, policymakers, startups, and nonprofits.

Garrett began his career in Washington, DC with the Cadmus Group’s Air and Water Quality Practices and subsequently with Deloitte Consulting's Energy, Resources, and Sustainability practices. Prior to Earth Finance, he founded Point B's Sustainability program and launched the firm’s Corporate Strategy, Climate, Energy, Sustainability, and Social Impact practices.

Garrett is actively involved with a variety of nonprofits and charitable organizations, including the Seattle Parks Foundation – where he is Board Chair – and the National Board of NatureBridge. He also serves as a Board Advisor for the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration (TSSPA) at the George Washington University.

An experienced outdoorsman, Garrett has led multi-day wilderness canoe trips throughout Eastern Canada and to Hudson's Bay for over 20 years. He spends his free time in the great outdoors with his two kids, Ainsley and Sawyer, and relaxing with his wife Amy and basset hound Kona in the San Juan islands north of Seattle.

Garrett has a B.A., cum laude, from Colby College, an MPP in Environmental Policy from the George Washington University, and a Certificate in Sustainable Energy Solutions from Presidio Graduate Institute.