James K. Eckler is the President of Savannah Ventures, LLC, a partnership that focuses on corporate Combined Heat and Power (CHP) project development, project ownership, and corporate finance in the CHP biomass sector of the alternative energy industry. He works with large project developers, and global energy providers, and U.S. Government programs as well as alternative energy funding sources. He is partnered with Envio Energi, a leader in European Biomass CHP, implementing CHP projects in the U.S. The first CHP project for the company was recently outlined in a Wall Street Journal article.

He serves as a shareholder and on the Board of Quadrant Financial, a joint venture with a commercial bank, that provides conduit, SBA and USDA financing and is in the top 50 in it's industry sector and is aggressively expanding. He also serves as an adviser to small and intermediate size banks and public economic development agencies interested in alternative energy development. Prior to Savannah Ventures, he was: CFO at First Horizon, a top 100 regional bank holding company; A member of the Management Committee of Morgan Keegan, a large investment bank; CFO of Long Term Care Partners, a joint venture between Metlife and John Hancock and the Federal Government (a public/private partnership).

He was involved in the successful bid, takeover, and restructuring of the fourth largest failing bank (at the time) and the first Garn Act bank. He has done a significant amount of other "C" level work in early stage, and turnaround companies as an Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer. He is also a professional outside Director.

He worked in Silicon Valley as a Senior Partnership Manager, managing relations between large technology companies and venture financed companies and financed new product development activities. He was the Co-Founder and an Executive Officer of a venture financed medical payment systems company funded by Standard Telephone and Cable of London, (International Medical Exchange) which became part of Anthem and now part of McKesson. the company created a medical records management system similar to what the Obama Administration is currently seeking to implement. Mr. Eckler also does a significant amount of public speaking on the economy, and on public policy matters, utilizing a lot of the background work of the Peter G.Peterson Foundation.