Meet the Vent Racing Staff

Mike Greenhalgh - President

Mike Greenhalgh brings strong financial experience to the Vent Racing Technologies team. His career includes an extensive background in management, accounting, budgeting, and finance.

Previously, Mike was a Partner and the CFO of Spread Trade Systems. Prior to joining STS, he was Vice-President/Controller at Educator Mutual Insurance Company. Before his career at Educators Mutual, he worked as a Senior Auditor for Ernst & Young LLP in Salt Lake City where his clients included Autoliv, Doppelmayr CTEC, Iomed, Schaeffer Industries and many other large manufactures. His career has also included a Controllership for TON Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Flying J, number 17 among Forbes' 500 largest private companies.

Mike is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Utah Association of Certified Public Accountants. Mr. Greenhalgh earned a BS in Accounting and a Masters of Accounting from Weber State University, where he received the UACPA Outstanding Graduate Award. He also received his Information Systems Management certificate from Weber State University. He is a life-time member of Beta Alpha Psi a national scholastic and professional fraternity.

Craig Thorley - Partner

Craig has extensive experience in the nuclear fuel, services, remediation and waste. He is currently Chairman of Thor Group, which has interests in uranium milling, utility vehicle performance parts manufacturing, and a title company. From 2005-2007 he was President of EnergySolutions Fuel Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of EnergySolutions that sought to exploit worldwide opportunities on the front end of the nuclear fuel cycle.

Prior to that, Craig was Senior Vice President and General Counsel of EnergySolutions for 12 years, assisting in the growth of the company from 25 employees to over 5000, including the acquisitions of Duratek, BNG America, and the D&D division of Scientech. In that capacity, Craig handled all legal aspects of the company, including, at various times, all federal and state lobbying, regulatory and governmental affairs, permitting and licensing, human resources, public relations, and media relations.

Craig graduated from Utah State University in 1984 with a BA in English and a minor in German, and graduated from Columbia Law School in 1987, where he was the Research Editor for the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law. While in law school, he served as a law clerk for the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, DC. After graduating from law school, Craig worked for 5 years for law firms in Washington, DC, and for 4 years as Environmental Counsel for Delmarva Power & Light Company in Wilmington, Delaware. He is a member of the bar in Delaware, District of Columbia, and Utah. Craig is a member of the USU Foundation Board and is a member of the Davis County Planning and Zoning Commission.

Mark Green - CEO

Mark Green has extensive experience in manufacturing, management, accounting and finance. He is currently the CFO of Thor Group LLC. From 2002 – 2008 he was the Controller of EnergySolutions (NYSE: ES) a global nuclear services company with over 5,500 employees. Prior to his tenure at EnergySolutions, Mark was a Senior Consultant in Chicago and Salt Lake City for Ernst & Young LLP where his clients included ADM, Transamerica, Bekins Van lines, Zions Bank, Doppelmayr CTEC and many other large companies.

Mark graduated from Brigham Young University with a BA in Accounting. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Mark lives with his wife Kelli and two children in Sandy, Utah.

Jace Packard - VP of Product Development

A pivotal part of Packard Enterprises and founding member of Vinco Racing Jace Packard is one of the brightest minds in powersports today. Jace is responsible for building some of the fastest 2 and 4 stroke engines the world has ever seen, winning various world speed titles and engineering championship winning suspension components. He is an expert CNC operator, certified TIG and MIG welder, expert in AutoCAD and Solidworks as well as a precision machinist. Jace lives in Farmington, Utah with his wife Brooke.

Jake Packard - VP of Sales

A founding member of Vinco Racing, Jake brings years of executive sales team management to the Vent Racing Technologies. Jake graduated with honors from the University of Utah and brings extensive international client management experience to the Vent Racing Team. He previously worked as the VP of Sales for W Management, Sky Blue Communications and Vinco Racing. Jake is fluent in three languages and currently enrolled in a Masters of International Business program with strong emphasis on Middle Eastern Relations. Jake lives in Farmington, Utah with his wife and 2 kids.

Sam Hunter - General Manager

Sam Hunter was born and raised in California and had a job working as a shop boy in a mechanics shop where his love for all things mechanical started to grow. After high school he spent 2 years abroad in Romania getting to know the locals. Upon his return he went back to school in Idaho and got his A.S. and moved to Utah to finish school and chase girls (mostly just his future wife). He continued his education by going through the collision repair technology course at UVU and went out into the industry painting, restoring and making vintage scooters go fast. After two years an opportunity opened up to run a junk yard and so he took it. Sadly the junk yard got bought out and he moved on and went back to finish his bachelors. Working his way through college pressure washing, painting, and interning at a local foundry, he finally graduated Magna Cum Laude with a solid 210 credit hours and a degree in Manufacturing Engineering. The foundry picked him up full time and he spent the next 5 years designing and manufacturing castings for the aerospace, nuclear, medical and defense industries. Still there was something missing. His love for machines was not being met so he moved on and became one of the crew at Vent Racing and is now as happy as a small school boy getting out for the summer.

Matthew Burningham - Production/Custom Projects Manager

Matthew Burningham graduated from Viewmont High School in 2005 and quickly embarked on his higher education journey. He received his bachelors in Aviation Management from Utah Valley University, is a licensed private pilot, PADI rescue diver, ASE certified mechanic with 4 years experience in various forms of non-destructive testing. Currently, Matt is in charge of product assembly in the fast growing Vent Racing Technologies turn key division as well as overseeing production. Matt resides in Kaysville with his family and can be seen tearing it up and probably rolling his Kawasaki Teryx in various sand dunes.