About — Christian Kameir

Independent advisory based in Newport Beach, California, with an operational footprint in New Mexico. The practice helps capital-intensive companies — primarily industrials, energy developers, and advanced manufacturers from German-speaking countries — enter the United States market, capture the federal, state, and county incentives available to them, and connect with the private capital sources that complete the stack.

Bilingual German / English. Thirty years at the intersection of capital, technology, and industrial operations — founding companies, backing them, and building the transatlantic relationships that make the work possible. Kameir operates what he advises on rather than consulting from the sidelines.

Earlier credentials include founding and exiting Colizer Inc. (San Diego, 2009), three rounds of venture financing, and investment and board positions across the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany through M&P Capital. Guest lecturer at Harvard on fintech and central bank digital currencies. Contributor to Forbes and HackerNoon. Chairs the Banking & Finance Special Interest Group at the Decentralized Identity Foundation.

Engagement structures

US-Entry Advisory

End-to-end support for companies from German-speaking countries establishing US operations: site selection, state and local incentive negotiation, US entity formation pathway, regulatory navigation, and integration with the federal capital stack. Six-month minimum, retained.

$22,000 / month · Six-month minimum

Capital Stack Assembly

Identification, qualification, and capture across two tracks. On the public side: IRA tax credits, DOE loan programs, USDA REAP, DOD industrial base programs, state revolving funds, and county-level incentive packages. On the private side: warm introductions to strategic investors, family offices, project-finance lenders, infrastructure funds, and institutional LPs matched to the specific project stage and structure.

Retainer plus success fee on captured capital

Fractional Executive and Board Advisory

Operating-bench role for US ventures and companies from German-speaking countries expanding stateside that need a senior US-resident operator without a full executive hire. Cash plus equity.

$18,000 / month · Twelve-month minimum

Project-Plus-Retainer

Hybrid structure for transactions with a defined closing event — acquisitions, financings, JV stand-ups — combining a project fee at signing with an ongoing retainer through the post-close integration window.

Project fee at signing · Retainer through integration

What the practice solves

The decision-to-production lead time for an industrial from a German-speaking country entering the US is eighteen to twenty-four months. Most of that time is lost in the first six: wrong site selected, wrong incentive structure pursued, federal capital window missed, private capital conversations started too late or with the wrong counterparties, US legal entity built in a way that blocks the credits the company was counting on.

Timing

State incentive funds are annual budget pools that close when full. IRA tax credits step down on construction-start schedules. Companies that treat 2026 as a planning year typically miss the 2026 capital cycle entirely and reset to 2027.

Structure

The site selected, the entity stood up, and the financing path chosen are interdependent decisions. Treating them sequentially — choose the site, then go look for capital — forecloses the most valuable options. Kameir runs them in parallel from the start.

Intermediated incentives

Most US site-selection advisors are paid by the receiving state or county, which means the advice tracks where the referral fee is largest, not where the project belongs. Kameir is paid only by the client.

The operator gap

Most advisory firms hand a deck to a client and walk away from execution. Kameir takes engagements only at the level of involvement at which the work actually gets done.

Who fits the practice

Decision makers who fit the practice are typically founders, CEOs, CFOs, board members, family-office principals, and PE deal leads with budget authority at or above $15,000 per month and a live decision in front of them — not a research project.

Kameir qualifies prospective clients rather than the reverse: fit is assessed on the live situation, the counterpart's decision authority, and the alignment of scope with the current engagement roster. Not every inquiry receives an offer, and not every offer is accepted — that is how the practice stays useful to the clients already on the roster.

Practice anchors

Engagement floor

$18,000 / month ($22,000 / month for US-entry onshoring)

Minimums

Six months on capital and onshoring engagements. Twelve months on fractional advisory.

Payment terms

Net-15. First month on signature.

Referral fees

None from US states, counties, or site-selection intermediaries.

Not offered

Contingent-only structures. Grant ghost-writing of record. Free consultations, capability decks, or proposals below engagement floor.