Vaughn Buntain is an American living outside of Munich, Germany since 2007.  His early career was marked by the evolution of his technical and mechanical aptitude. Trained as a classical tool & die maker and machinist, his technical understanding of machines and mechanical systems led him from component fabrication to technical troubleshooting and later, machine design for one of the largest publishing and printing houses in New York.  

Using his combination of technical and communication skills, Vaughn’s career further developed with the opportunity to sell and support, European-made packaging and design solutions for the pharmaceutical, food & beverage and medical device sector.  Combining his technical and writing skills, Vaughn authored the product development manual used for internal product development: “Corporate Policy for Technology Development and Pre-Production, Quality Assurance Processes” and in  2003 he secured his first US patent # US6443324B1 targeting the international beverage industry (https://patents.google.com/patent/US6443324B1/en?oq=6443324).

Having perfected Spanish and French during ten years of social service in the New York metropolitan region, Vaughn’s passion for foreign languages and cultures led him to direct those skills towards international business development. His ability to communicate complex, technical concepts to a non-technical audience in French, Spanish and Italian was his key for bridging the technical, cultural and language gaps that existed between European providers and American end-users.  This led to the largest-ever, pharmaceutical glass order between a French supplier and an American producer, and, a doubling of sales between a German pharmaceutical supplier and America’s leading pharmaceutical company at the time.  

Since the 1990’s Vaughn’s career has been characterized by his technical aptitude, foreign language and communication skills, cross-cultural relationship management skills together with writing, presenting and public speaking. Using the skills honed over many years and multiple countries, his success is grounded in his ability to listen, understand, collaborate, build trust, and ultimately, bridge the technical, language, culture and mindset gaps that frequently separate suppliers and end-users in international business.

The combination of communication skills ultimately led to a career in management consulting: advising Fortune 1000 corporate clients on employee-driven change from within – how to implement new and sustainable behavior patterns at the first management level in a company. After authoring the company manual on first level management mentoring, he secured the largest telecommunications company in America as client. There he led several teams through multiple projects driving change among those managers who were closest to the work of the company.

In 2006 he was named VP of International Business Development for Germany’s largest solar PV integrator, and later, CEO of US Operations.  In 2010 he formed Renewable Energy Solutions as the bridge / interface between institutional capital markets and European, utility scale solar PV and wind developers.  

Renewable Energy Solutions advises and pursues technical, market and business development mandates on two levels:  1) renewable energy developers seeking a bridge or access to European capital markets, and, 2) American companies entering the European market and requiring assistance to interface or bridge the cultural, language and mindset differences related to business development, strategy, logistics, staffing and relationship management.  The preferred mandate is a technical business opportunity that make sense financially as well as socially and/or environmentally, namely, products and services that combat climate change, promote the health of our planet and deliver positive financial results as well, in other words:  “impact investments”.

Vaughn is married, the father of two incredible sons and lives in Germany’s Ammersee region.  He is fluent in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian.