Jeffrey J. Don is an international business consultant and U.S. attorney with more than 45 years of experience in cross border business development, international legal transactions, and multi jurisdictional project execution. His work spans the United States, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, where he has led complex commercial negotiations, structured multinational financing packages, and guided governments and private enterprises through high stakes infrastructure and investment programs. As founder of C3 Strategic International, Don is the architect of the firm’s cross border execution model and the BEWE methodology, which integrates Eastern and Western business practices to support collaborative, multi nation project development.
Don’s expertise sits at the intersection of international law, strategic finance, and cross border project development. His work includes international commercial transactions, multinational legal structuring, cross border financing and capital stack design, government to government negotiation, EPC integration for large scale infrastructure, and multi jurisdictional compliance and governance. His advisory work supports governments, Fortune 500 companies, and international development groups across multiple continents.


Don has held leadership roles in international project development, cross border legal practice, and strategic advisory work for multinational corporations entering new markets. His portfolio includes the Honduras Transoceanic Project, China telecommunications market entry for Verizon/IBM, multi country financing packages for infrastructure and industrial development, and cross border commercial agreements across Asia, Latin America, and the U.S. His work consistently bridges legal, financial, and operational domains to create executable, investor credible programs.
Phase One – Leads national level alignment with ministries, agencies, and sovereign stakeholders; defines problem statements and opportunity architecture; establishes cross border partnership structures.
Phase Two – Designs capital stack architecture and investor alignment frameworks; oversees legal structuring for EPC, financing, and multi party agreements; ensures compliance with international regulatory, environmental, and financial standards.
Phase Three – Provides governance oversight for multi jurisdictional execution; manages decision gate architecture and canonical documentation; ensures alignment between government, EPC contractors, financiers, and local integrators.
Don’s work has shaped international business environments and national development programs across Central America, China and East Asia, the United States, the Middle East, and emerging markets in Africa and Latin America. His ability to integrate legal, financial, and operational systems across borders makes him a central figure in C3’s mission to deliver bankable, buildable, and governable infrastructure programs.
Jeffrey J. Don is a veteran international business consultant and attorney whose leadership in cross border legal structuring, multinational finance, and government level negotiation forms the foundation of C3 Strategic International. His BEWE methodology and decades of global experience enable C3 to deliver complex, multi jurisdictional infrastructure programs with the governance discipline, capital architecture, and execution credibility required for national transformation initiatives.

Thompson lui
INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE DIRECTOR

J Scott Fenwick
COo

Nicholas A. Patz
C3 Energy director 

Thompson Lui is an infrastructure finance specialist with more than 20 years of experience structuring multilateral development programs, public private partnerships (PPPs), and sovereign level capital frameworks across Asia, Latin America, and emerging markets. His work integrates financial engineering, development bank standards, and cross border investment strategy to support national infrastructure programs and large scale transformation initiatives. Lui serves as a C3 Technical Advisor focused on capital architecture, multilateral alignment, and financial governance for national scale development platforms.
Lui’s expertise spans the financial and institutional architecture required to deliver complex infrastructure programs. His core competencies include multilateral development bank alignment, PPP structuring, capital stack design, risk allocation, credit enhancement, blended finance mechanisms, cross border investment strategy, financial governance, and economic modeling.

J. Scott Fenwick is a senior development and infrastructure strategist with more than forty years of experience across residential, commercial, rural, and off grid construction systems. His background spans multi state development, advanced building technologies, and multi phase project execution requiring coordination with state, county, and municipal agencies. His experience directly supports C3 Strategic’s national scale work in waste to energy deployment, grid enhancement, and transportation modernization.
His technical and operational expertise includes large scale development planning, off grid energy systems, sustainable construction, regulatory coordination, and phased infrastructure execution. He has delivered projects involving subdivision development, commercial rehabilitation, rural infrastructure, and advanced building systems such as rammed earth, Faswall block, insulated foam block, and high efficiency timber frame construction.

Nicholas A. Patz holds a Bachelor of Arts in Geography from California State University, Fullerton, and has pursued graduate studies in Geography at Arizona State University. With 37 years of total experience, including 32 years in management, he is a seasoned professional in his field. He is a Nevada Certified Environmental Manager (#01274) and a Certified Hazardous Materials Manager from the University of California, Irvine. Additionally, he has completed Brownfields Project Management training through CCLR and maintains his 40-hour OSHA Health & Safety Training with annual 8-hour updates.

Nick Patz has over three decades of experience in environmental assessment, remediation projects, and waste management at both large and small consulting firms. He began his career as a pioneer in environmental due diligence in the late 1980s, later founding Ceres Associates, where he served as president and led the company to success in both domestic and international markets. Ceres Associates focused on zero-waste initiatives and advanced waste management systems for local governments, hotel chains, and industrial developments.

Nick has been a long-term advocate for environmental stewardship, presenting on topics ranging from environmental law to pyrolytic gasification's role in climate change mitigation. As president of Ceres Associates, he oversaw significant improvements in waste management practices in the Middle East, including the design and construction of the first environmentally controlled landfill in the GCC, achieving a 60% recycling rate within 18 months in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE.

Currently, as Vice President of Project Development at Balboa Pacific Corporation, Nick specializes in converting waste to electricity through pyrolytic gasification. He has proposed projects globally and developed comprehensive project concepts from feasibility studies to grid connection. His work has included presentations to diverse audiences, including an event in Ecuador that sparked a movement towards better waste management practices in South America.

Nick's extensive experience includes managing complex projects involving multiple disciplines, conducting geotechnical and hydrogeological studies, and overseeing numerous Phase I, II, and III Environmental Site Assessments. His passion for converting waste to energy addresses significant societal problems by eliminating health hazards, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and providing renewable energy.

Beginning his career in 1983, Fenwick has led multi county development projects, off grid solar deployments—including Idaho’s first off grid solar project with Idaho Power—commercial rehabilitation, and community facility modernization. His leadership spans both private sector development and public sector coordination, with a focus on cost efficient, sustainable, and resilient infrastructure.
Phase One – Strategic planning for waste to energy facilities, grid modernization, and transportation corridors; alignment with national ministries and regulatory bodies.
Phase Two – Execution oversight, ensuring compliance with engineering, environmental, and operational standards; support for multilateral financing and climate fund alignment.
Phase Three – Interagency coordination, ensuring alignment between government, EPC contractors, and financial partners; operational readiness and long term infrastructure reliability.
Fenwick’s work strengthens C3’s ability to deliver resilient, sustainable, and operationally realistic infrastructure programs. His leadership supports national service delivery improvements, environmental impact reduction, and long term infrastructure reliability.

Jeffrey J. Don
CEO

Each member of the C3executive management team has decades of experience doing business in and with China and brings both a wealth of China experience and extensive China relationships to formulate and implement the C3 business solutions for its clients. With expertise and relationships in both the private and public sectors of the developing China market economy, the fastest growing economy in the world, the C3 management team is able to formulate its BEWE Solutions to meet the ever-changing dynamic China market conditions.

C3 Management Team 

Lui has served as a financial advisor and program architect for national infrastructure modernization programs in Southeast Asia, PPP frameworks for transportation and energy, blended finance structures integrating MDB and private capital, institutional investor engagement for long horizon portfolios, and financial governance systems for multi phase national development programs. He has contributed to feasibility, structuring, and execution frameworks for projects exceeding $5 billion in cumulative value.
Phase One – Defines financial problem statements and capital architecture requirements; aligns national priorities with MDB frameworks; supports early stage financial modeling.
Phase Two – Designs capital stacks, PPP structures, and blended finance mechanisms; leads risk allocation and financial governance; ensures compliance with MDB, ESG, and international standards.
Phase Three – Supports financial reporting, monitoring, and decision gate compliance; coordinates with ministries, MDBs, EPC contractors, and investors; ensures financial integrity across multi phase execution.
Lui’s work has strengthened national PPP frameworks, expanded MDB aligned financing capacity, improved sovereign credit positioning, integrated ESG and financial governance into national portfolios, and enabled cross border investment flows into emerging market infrastructure.
Thompson Lui is an infrastructure finance and multilateral program specialist whose expertise in capital architecture, PPP structuring, and financial governance strengthens C3’s ability to deliver investor credible, sovereign aligned national development programs. His work ensures that C3’s infrastructure platforms meet the financial, regulatory, and institutional standards required for long term national transformation.

Geraldo Murillo is a senior infrastructure strategist and civil engineer with more than two decades of leadership across port modernization, national logistics systems, and public sector project development in Central America. His career spans executive roles in government, international project coordination, and private sector advisory work, with a focus on large scale infrastructure, maritime operations, and national level development programs. As the C3 U.S.A. Representative for Central America, Murillo serves as a regional integrator for capital, engineering, and government alignment—supporting C3’s cross border execution model and the Proceed governance architecture.

GERALDO (“GERA”) MURRILLO
Central America Representative Strategic Infrastructure Advisor

Murillo’s professional background centers on the design, management, and modernization of strategic national infrastructure, including port operations, maritime logistics, terminal modernization, national scale infrastructure planning, public sector governance, cross border project development, engineering oversight, and environmental compliance. His experience positions him as a key regional advisor for C3’s work in Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, and the broader Central American corridor.  Murillo’s work has contributed to strengthening Central American logistics competitiveness, advancing port modernization, supporting national development strategies tied to trade and industrialization, and building cross border cooperation for large scale infrastructure programs. His experience directly supports C3’s mission to integrate capital, engineering, and governance into executable national programs.  Geraldo Murillo is a seasoned infrastructure executive whose leadership in port modernization and national logistics systems makes him a critical regional advisor for C3’s Central American initiatives. His blend of public sector authority, engineering expertise, and cross border coordination strengthens C3’s ability to deliver bankable, buildable, and governable infrastructure programs across the region.