George Klemann

Financial leadership across industries

George Klemann has more than 40 years of diverse business and entrepreneurial experience, including mergers and acquisitions, public accounting, investment banking, property development, business management, legal affairs and investment advisory.

George is CFO, Secretary/Treasurer and a member of the Board of Directors of AWR Energy, Inc., a manufacturer of diffuser-augmented wind turbines. Previously, he was CFO and Director of Finance for WW Ventures Group LLC, a financial services company focused primarily on the purchase, resale and recovery of delinquent debt portfolios, as well as venture capital and investment banking services for emerging companies.

At WW Ventures, George managed the purchase, resale and recovery of over $2.5 billion in charged-off consumer debt portfolios. He used statistical modeling, database analysis and a network of more than 100 collection law firms to optimize the debt recovery process.

George also served as Senior Vice President with Carriage Hill Partners, a private equity firm in New York, and Wall Street Financial Group, Inc., an independent broker-dealer. He has provided investment banking and business consulting services to clients including Canadian Anglo Manufacturing Inc., a Tier 1 supplier to Volvo Corp., and Alternative Wind Resources, LLC.

He has been a founding shareholder in several Rochester-based companies, including AWR Energy, Inc.; ICE Inc., a marketing communications firm; KLIC Inc., a national retail franchiser; and KLECO Properties, which developed and managed commercial and residential properties.

George was also Treasurer, Corporate Secretary and a member of the Executive Committee for Blair, Dubois, a subsidiary of BBD&O (now Omnicom), a worldwide advertising agency. He has served as a director and CFO of numerous public and private companies and was a member of the Great Lakes Venture Capital Review Board.

George earned an MBA in Finance from Rochester Institute of Technology with a GPA of 3.75 and a BA in Accounting from Ithaca College, ranking first in accounting with an overall GPA of 3.7 and an accounting GPA of 4.0. He formerly held FINRA Series 7, 63 and 65 securities licenses and was formerly a CPA with Arthur Andersen & Co.