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Ophir & Co. / Industry Solutionists

We are Industry Solutionists.

Turning complex projects into executable opportunities.

When power, land, infrastructure, capital, and execution must come together, we build the team, assemble the strategy, and move projects forward. Whether you are an investor, a landowner, a utility, a developer, or a technology company, we help turn complex ideas into executable projects.

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01 / The Difference

More than consultants.

Most firms say, “we provide consulting.” Very few can honestly say they reduce years of uncertainty into months of execution. That is the line we work on.

A Solutionist is

someone who assembles relationships, capital, infrastructure, technology, and execution into one coordinated strategy that solves complex industrial problems.

We are not selling advice. We are selling certainty in an uncertain market. That is what powered land, AI infrastructure, and energy transition projects actually require to get built.

02 / The Framework

Six pillars. One strategy.

Every serious project rests on the same six pillars. Ophir sits in the center, coordinating them into a single line of execution, not as consultants, but as Solutionists.

01Pillar

Property

Sourcing infrastructure-rich land and stranded assets.

02Pillar

Energy

Behind-the-meter generation, gas, transmission, and interconnection.

03Pillar

Capital

Project finance, joint ventures, and co-GP structures.

04Pillar

Technology

Data center, hyperscale, industrial, and AI compute suitability.

05Pillar

Infrastructure

Fiber, water, substations, pipelines, and permitting.

06Pillar

Execution

The team, the timeline, and the accountability to close.

03 / What We Do

Hard-won field experience, made actionable.

For landowners, we determine whether your property is powered land, and what it is worth to the operators who need it. For developers and operators, we deliver qualified sites and the structures to control them. In every engagement the discipline is the same: source the right ground, and structure the deal so it holds.

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Site Qualification

Rigorous assessment of power, water, fiber, transmission, gas, and interconnection, so you know what you have before the market tells you.

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Deal Structuring

Options, partnerships, and joint ventures that align landowners, power providers, and data center buyers.

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Behind-the-Meter Strategy

Power solutions that bypass multi-year grid interconnection queues and put a site in service years sooner.

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Opportunity Origination

Every year billions flow into power, AI, and industrial infrastructure. Very few opportunities ever reach institutional quality. We identify them, assemble them, de-risk them, and deliver them.

04 / Readiness Assessment

Is your property ready for AI infrastructure?

A powered land readiness assessment tells you what your ground can actually carry, before the market tells you. Built for landowners, developers, family offices, utilities, and investment funds.

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We evaluate

  • Power
  • Water
  • Fiber
  • Natural Gas
  • Permitting
  • Environmental
  • Utility Relationships
  • Generation Options
  • Data Center Suitability

05 / Bring Us Your Impossible Project

We solve projects others walk away from.

  • /No power?
  • /No utility relationship?
  • /No transmission?
  • /Remote property?
  • /Gas stranded?
  • /No financing?
  • /Permitting challenges?

Those are exactly the kinds of projects we enjoy solving. Complexity is not a reason to walk away. It is the reason a Solutionist exists.

Project Intake

Tell us what you have on the ground.

The more you share about power, water, fiber, gas, transmission, and permitting, the faster we can tell you what your site can actually deliver.

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06 / What We Believe

The age of AI will be won on the ground.

i.

Compute follows power.

Power follows land that can host it. Sites with confirmed gas, water, fiber, and transmission are no longer ordinary real estate. They are the defining asset class of this era.

ii.

Behind-the-meter changes the math.

The operator who does not have to wait in the interconnection queue wins. Years, not months.

iii.

The best ground is hiding.

The most valuable opportunities sit in plain sight, on land the market has overlooked or mispriced.

iv.

The work matters.

Far beyond any single deal. We are laying the physical foundation of the next economy.

07 / Who We Work With

A defined group of serious participants.

Our network is the product. We are actively seeking relationships with operators, investors, and institutions building the infrastructure behind the AI economy.

  • AI Infrastructure Investors
  • Data Center Developers
  • Private Equity
  • Family Offices
  • Energy Developers
  • Utilities
  • Industrial Landowners
  • EPC Firms
  • Hyperscalers
  • Natural Gas Producers
  • Infrastructure Funds
  • Economic Development Organizations

08 / Our Story

Three builders. One frontier.

Ophir & Co was founded on a single conviction: the ground beneath the digital economy is becoming the most strategically important real estate in the country, and the real estate world has not caught up. Closing that gap takes two things in equal measure, the discipline to know what a site can actually deliver and the relationships to turn that site into a financed, build-ready project. Ophir was built to do both.

The firm brings together three builders who arrived at the same ground from very different directions: a systems engineer out of large-scale live production, a finance and energy operator, and a third-generation real estate developer. Between them sits decades of building things that have to work.

An introduction at the Super Bowl and a site in southern Pennsylvania, one with the rare combination of attributes a data center actually requires, brought the three of them together and put the thesis to the test.

Qualifying that site was long and demanding. Power, water, fiber, transmission, interconnection timelines: every layer had to be proven out, because the difference between a site that looks ready and a site that is ready is the whole business.

What they found was a new asset class. Land that was simply dirt ten years ago is becoming critical national infrastructure, and most of the market has not caught up. Ophir & Co exists to close that gap: to find infrastructure-rich land and stranded assets sitting at the edge of existing power and connectivity, prove what they can carry, and structure them into projects that creditworthy offtakers can build on.

Together, the partners maintain relationships across the full energy ecosystem: EPC firms specializing in utility-scale generation, developers working in natural gas, hydrogen, and carbon capture, senior power and data center executives, and the infrastructure investors and project finance professionals who fund what gets built. Across technical, financial, governmental, and operational lines, they bring the right stakeholders together and execute the complex projects others cannot.

That work is already pointed at the ground. Ophir is working to transform Western Kentucky's power and industrial capacity by 2030, with active site work underway across the country. Dirt becomes infrastructure only once. Ophir is built to be there when it does.

09 / The Partners

The people behind the work.

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James Shearing

James Shearing has a talent for untangling complex problems and weaving together the connections others overlook into solutions that actually get built. He came up in the technology of large-scale stagecraft, engineering intricate systems under pressure where every detail mattered and deadlines were absolute. When the pandemic closed live entertainment, he carried that discipline into commercial real estate, and it proved to be exactly what powered land demands.

He identifies, structures, and advances sites suitable for large-scale power generation, data centers, AI infrastructure, and energy transition projects. He helped reposition Pennsylvania's Deerwood Technology Campus, where careful infrastructure analysis and sharp market positioning drove a substantial increase in asset value and institutional interest. What sets him apart is the ability to see how disparate pieces, power, land, capital, and execution, fit together, and then assemble them into a coherent project that moves forward. Sourcing and structuring is his edge: finding the sites others miss, coordinating utility and transmission access, and moving raw parcels toward build-ready.

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Brad Love

Brad Love

Brad Love sits at the intersection of capital and power, the two things a powered-land project cannot move without. He leads financial strategy, capital formation, and operations for a specialized developer of behind-the-meter power plants purpose-built to support hyperscale data centers, building the financial architecture that determines whether a site can actually be energized on a buyer's timeline. His focus is the problem every data center developer is racing to solve: standing up reliable, on-site generation that removes the dependence on a constrained and slow-moving grid.

A founder and operator before he was a financier, Brad has built and scaled multiple companies, including residential and commercial solar platforms centered on energy security and a hedge against rising power costs, and he spent nearly a decade as a chief executive. That blend of entrepreneur, operator, and capital strategist lets him price a project, structure its economics, and carry it from concept to financed reality.

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Jim Adams IV

Jim Adams IV finds land with real infrastructure behind it and buildings the market has forgotten: natural gas, transmission, fiber, wind, water, and substation access. Then he builds the deal structure that connects that land and power to the right offtaker. A third-generation real estate developer, he co-founded InvestSmart in 2012 and closed more than 500 transactions across the region before turning to a new kind of ground: infrastructure-rich land positioned for power and data center development.

Through Ophir & Co, he sources and structures large-acreage, infrastructure-ready sites and the stranded assets sitting at the edge of existing power and connectivity. He is also the founder of the Powered Land Council, an invite-only network of the operators, developers, and energy innovators building this asset class. Through Elite Transition and the Athlete Dynasty ecosystem, he brings professional athletes and legacy-minded investors into these deals as co-GP partners, building ownership that creates legacy equity to outlast the career.

10 / Focus

Where we are working.

Active Infrastructure Focus

Natural gas pipeline capacity, high-voltage transmission access, substation proximity, fiber, wind, and water.

Active Markets

Texas, Alabama, Tennessee, Florida, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Arkansas, Mississippi, Indiana, Iowa, and Wisconsin.

11 / One Call. Complete Solution.

When power, land, capital, and execution must come together, we build the team, assemble the strategy, and move projects forward.

Whether you are an investor, a landowner, a utility, a developer, or a technology company, we help turn complex ideas into executable projects.