Steve Aust

Mr. Aust is Co-Founder and President of Verdant (VRDT). Verdant delivers total energy solutions and profitable distribution grid management through a robust energy technology aggregation model. Verdant focuses in the following: Acquisition, investment and partnership platforms. Vertical and Horizontal roll-up with wholly-owned and nonconsolidated subsidiaries. Aggregator of leading technology companies. Technology and Systems integration. Development of incremental revenue streams for marketing through horizontal integration. Mr. Aust has raised over $100 million in Venture Capital for several direct sales companies. In the mid 1990's Steve worked to raise capital for numerous IT start-ups. Among these firms is the Video Home Shopping Network, Vision Quest, 2Extreme Sports, helping to the latter public through a successful IPO.