Jim Spaanstra

Chief Strategy and Revenue Officer

Jim has forty years of experience in complex land restoration and remediation projects. Jim has represented clients ranging from small businesses to Fortune 100 companies and has experience remediating sites in the US Department of Energy nuclear complex. Jim has redeveloped brownfield sites throughout the United States.

Credentials

Environmental Partner- Holland & Hart

  • Partner FaegreDrinker.  Chaired Clean Energy/Energy Transition Industry groups
  • Membership in Colorado Boards and Commissions appointed by the last four Colorado Governors.
  • Chair of the Colorado School of Mines Board of Trustees
  • Member Board of Regents, American College of Environmental Lawyers
  • Founding Partner Parcel, Mauro, Hultin and Spaanstra.
  • Board Member and Executive Director of Great Outdoors Colorado
  • Chair- Jefferson County, Colorado Planning Commissioner
  • Staff Attorney. President Carter's Council on Environmental Quality.
  • Research Assistant Professor Joseph L Sax, University of Michigan Law School
  • JD University of Michigan, including graduate studies in the now Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
  • BS Grand Valley State, Michigan.
Expertise
  • Emerging Company development Energy Transitions