Publishing Companies
Industries of Investment
Semiconductor
Industry
Independent Media, Film Companies. History and Education
Political Consulting and Marketing Firms
Research and Development Companies
Oil and Gas
Industry Divestiture
Manufacturers of Products and Services
ABOUT US
The Keyserling Management Group is a business management company, operator and investor that supports traditional and conservative companies and professionals including our own projects, where we bring together smart, principled centered people who strive greatly to uphold the virtue ethics of value (temperance), strength and prudence, with with a eye toward traditional and cultural preservation while achieving economic success. All built on innovation, excellence and sophistication in how we manage projects that people truly want and need in their lives, community and institutions. There are many traditional businesses and managers creating a renaissance in technology, publishing, manufacturing and other high tech industries. That is who we connect and do business with.
Golden ages are created and great Civilizations are held together by a belief in Godly virtues, an infinite eternity and people with a shared history, understanding of tradition, with higher ethics, morals, and spiritualness. Great leadership is also required to uphold what is right in these principles and to endure with high standards of professionalism above all else first.
Economics, will always be a necessary core to hold a nation, institutions and its people together. Which is why investment and management in companies with a commitment to create shareholder and employee value is so important. How we run our businesses is reflected within our society and the condition of quality of life. A higher quality of life in society shows that our institutions are managing and investing prudently with temperance,, and not to preserve their own self interests at the expense of others. Our purpose is preserve conservative culture in this way, while we build value with operators and professionals.
The pace of certain unnecessary regulations, restrictions on small, medium and large business investment accessible to all, and the erasure of traditional, conservative ideals has increased in some places and at times nationally and internationally. Some businesses and professionals have faced increased problems establishing and growing their ideas, when the institutions, regulators and investor or society who follow the market environment do not agree with a persons or groups, traditions, beliefs, preferences and ideas. Some proprietors are forced to remain silent or walk away from their businesses without compromise. As a consequence, access to investment and an almost non existent laissez-faire market for their ideas much less society’s will to operate with long term generations in mind out of fear from regulatory consequences, has greatly reduced.
The Keyserling Group makes strategic investments and takes the steps necessary to build successful projects, companies and acquisitions based on our core beliefs of virtue in our work process, openness to ideas which create value creation for others. We navigate through and in collaboration with the market to help institutions, regulators and investors understand the value proposition of our investments and developments.
OUR MANAGEMENT
Meet the dedicated professionals behind Keyserling Group's success. Each team member brings unique expertise and a commitment to our mission of preserving and strengthening conservative cultures through strategic investments.
Kay Berg (In Memoriam, 1949-2026) is the Chairman of the Keyserling Group, and has over 40 years involvement as a senior management executive, founder of companies and investor in several industries. She started a bio-medical device manufacturing company and was one of the founding investors and first board members of, Hemocue USA, which today, distributes medical device products in over 130 countries and is a subsidiary of Danaher (NYSE:DNR).
In the early 2000's Kay entered the energy industry and created strategic development businesses and mergers and acquisition finance projects in the oil and gas industry. These sectors included upstream exploration and production, oil services, refining, transportation and physical commodities trading.
The methods of her operations and projects have been based on a strong hierarchical leadership, with high standards for efficiency and accountability, while rooted in a discipline of traditional and moral principles and virtues with and efficient and innovate and risk taking work ethic. While at the same, time fostering free thought for strategy, design, action and innovation. Kay worked with many leading organizations and professionals around the world with common values for the purposes of the specific projects. It was Kay's intention to move Keyserling into the direction it takes today rooted in preserving virtues, values and ideas on how to operate and manage a business. Character, is an essential core tenant of Kay's belief system. To be smart without a good character is not what you want in a person's makeup. To have a good character, be smart, and to act on your purpose is the right type of person you want beside you.
Kay's philosophy includes a core tenant to care about the "people's value." The value that each individual has and creates is given the environment to exist, to be a part of the character of our culture and it's achievements.
Joseph Michael
For over 30 years, Joseph Michael has worked in capital raising and developing new companies and projects in the oil and gas industry. Prior to this, Joseph worked in M&A finance and capital raising for six years for independent investment banks and separately, for private companies in medical, pharmaceuticals, energy and the high technology sector.
From 2004 until 2025, Joseph was COO of BUDC Capitol Holdings, Kayden Higgins Corporation, Centillion and North Cambrian Capital (Co-CEO) founded by Kay Berg, who was the founder, Chairman and CEO of the companies.
From the beginning of BUDC and the following companies, Joseph together with senior management, built relationships with and raised capital in hundreds of investment transactions, securing over 3 billion dollars in LOI’s, term sheets, letters of credit and general working capital, (debt and equity) for company operations. They also worked with the largest and most specialized investment firms and commercial banks in the oil and gas industry, for debt and equity financing, marketing, sale, and divestiture processes for energy companies. Joseph, with the CEO’s and Board of Directors, worked within their teams and with public and private energy companies on developing and targeting acquisitions, new developments and strategic partnerships in the sectors of exploration and production (E&P, upstream) oil services, oil trading, ship building finance and construction proposals (Jones Act vessels, for oil products, (midstream) and refining and marketing, (commercial oil and product trading, downstream). The companies located, developed, structured financing and bid on assets and developed high level commercial projects domestically and internationally.
Under these companies, in leadership and conjunction with the board, executives, advisors and investors, they would find and evaluate, create strategic planning, raise capital for the development or acquisition and sale process of oil and gas properties and oil refineries and hired investment banks, professional service (law and outside accounting firms) as advisors, for assistance in the due diligence of many large ad public company divestitures.
The oil refineries ranged in size from 25,000 to 200,000 BOPD, with revenues of $100MM-$1B per year, and EBITDA’s from $20MM to $100+MM annually. E&P company sales or divestitures varied from EBITDA of $25-$80MM.
Most of the main U.S. based refineries that were worked on are located in Hawaii, Texas, Louisiana, Montana, New Jersey, Philadelphia and Denmark and Sweden, owned either by the majors or publicly traded independent refining and specialty chemical companies. E&P asset sales were located in the Gulf of Mexico offshore, onshore, Delaware and Permian Basin, Eagle Ford and East Texas to the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and throughout North and South Louisiana.
As COO for most of his 27 years, Joseph worked very closely as a team with the Chairman and CEO, Board, co-executives, staff and advisors under the leadership of the CEO, and collaborated with its teams every day. The focus was to work diligently to foster and build relationships and create exciting partnership strategies and projects that highlight the strengths of our management team and its vast capabilities, and those of our strategic partners and investors. Most of the public and private oil and gas companies dealt with, highly capable in their own right, included some of the largest pipeline, storage and fuel marketing and distribution companies in the United States, were based on the work the team did to establish good initial relationships and brought to the highly capable management teams and industry technical experience together with business projects, that created growth ideas to increase cash flows and infrastructure to build the value of each organization.
The companies along side in sale processes most of the largest U.S. and European investment and commercial banks and many large private and public companies, within the energy industry on working capital revolver financing, commercial term loans, specialty financing, by coordinating, identifying structuring and negotiating on the financing and sale of companies either to acquire businesses and or to develop strategic operating acquisitions, partnerships and investments.
Today, Keyserling Management Group LLC, which was founded by Kay Berg, will continue its legacy of Kay’s management principles and culture. A culture of character, virtue and discipline, with a pride that anything can be accomplished with the right ideas, sophistication and careful planning, being taken on with strong leadership and decisive risk-taking action, along each step of the process, until a project’s successful conclusion. Instilled inside the company and its people, is an optimism of cheerful fortitude in seeing growth occur each day, professionalism and confidence, combined with a tremendous energy that has always motivated their people with an endless commitment, and love of the process to build. All which embodies the principles and culture of Kay Berg’s companies and management philosophy. Joseph worked very closely over 27 years and exemplified her life principles and professional standards, which he considered the main key and first principle of the company’s value proposition.
Joseph Studied Government and International Politics at George Mason University’s Schar School of Government and Department of Economics and has worked in political campaigns for congressional seats, Governor’s races in Virginia and presidential elections,