Partners

Principals
Buddy Garland
Keith Klein
Kathy Carlson
Jim Culpepper
Warren Bergholz
Rick Arkin
John Wagoner
Bob Kukich

Directors

Associates

Senior Advisors
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Global’s staff members have many years of experience and understand the urgency of handling a project from beginning to end - getting it done right the first time. Our goal is to provide honest and objective service in support of the customer achieving its goals.
Buddy Garland
Founder, Global BGITM Corporation
Retired SES from DOE-HQ. Former Navy nuclear submariner. Expert in marketing, strategic planning, and green energy. Active teacher, speaker, and consultant covering DOE-Headquarters and the greater Washington, D.C. area.
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Keith Klein Principal
Retired SES Manager of the DOE-Hanford Site, former RF and WIPP Manager. Has over a decade of experience in DOE Headquarters’ Environmental Management program. Thirty years of experience in the energy field. He is an active speaker and consultant covering the northwest including DOE-Hanford and the northwest utilities.
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Kathy Carlson Principal
Retired SES Manager of the DOE-Nevada Site, Assistant Manager of the DOE-Office of National Defense Programs. Senior advisor to DOE-NNSA Site Managers. She has thirty-plus years of experience in the energy field. She is an active speaker and consultant covering DOE-Nevada
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Jim Culpepper
Principal
Retired SES Deputy Manager of the DOE-Albuquerque Site, Headquarters Deputy Assistant Secretary of, then, DOE-Defense Programs (now NNSA), DOE Headquarters’ Budget Director. Forty years of experience in the energy field. He covers DOE-Albuquerque and Los Alamos.
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Warren Bergholz
Principal
Retired SES Manager of the DOE-Idaho Site (Acting), Deputy Manager of the Idaho Site, GC at Savannah River Site. Thirty-plus years of experience in the energy field. He is an active speaker and consultant covering DOE-Idaho.
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Rick Arkin
Principal
Retired SES Manager of the DOE-Savannah River NNSA Site, Headquarters Deputy Assistant Secretary of DOE-NNSA. Expert in Nuclear Safeguards & Security. Former Director of Aviation Safety. Thirty-five years of experience in the energy field. Active speaker and consultant covering Savannah River Site.
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John Wagoner
Principal
Retired SES Manager of the DOE-Hanford Site, Deputy Manager of the Savannah River Site, Director of Clinch River Project in Oak Ridge, 10 years in the Naval Reactors division of the AEC in HQ and Director of Contracts of Schenectady Naval Reactors at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory. Forty years of experience in the energy field. He is an active speaker and consultant covering DOE-Oak Ridge and Savannah River.
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Bob Kukich
Principal
Retired Army Officer who operates in the Norfolk area. His expertise is in business growth as well as training solutions development.
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