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The defining ESG investment
management platform

GoodFinch is "Good Financial." An asset manager with an investment strategy focused around home-efficiency fixed income securities, our mission is to be the defining environmental, social and governance investment management platform that does good for the planet, while doing well for our investors.

The Gravity of
GoodFinch

Purpose

With higher purpose comes greater performance. We don’t believe that the climate crisis is just a global problem, it’s also the greatest investment opportunity in the history of humankind.

Performance

What sets GoodFinch apart is the experience, expertise, and extensive analytics to determine high propensity for loan quality, reliability and fast payoff rate.

Prosperity

With clean energy expertise, market-leading financial experience, and technology-driven data insights, GoodFinch is uniquely positioned to deliver high performing assets at scale, rooted in higher purpose.

Our investors can do good for humanity, while receiving significant financial reward.

Good Financial

Purpose.

Performance.

Prosperity.

Market-leading financial experience

With over 20 years of deep leadership experience in the clean energy, finance and investment sectors, GoodFinch is poised to lead ESG asset management in the clean energy space.

Hayes Barnard

Chairman

As Co-Founder of GoodFinch, Hayes brings over 25 years of successful entrepreneurial experience across clean energy, investment/financial, mortgage, and technology sectors. He is also Founder, Chairman and CEO of Loanpal, dba GoodLeap– the #1 solar lender in the U.S.– as well as GivePower, a nonprofit organization that provides solar-based solutions for food, water, and electricity in developing regions around the world. Prior to his current roles, Hayes founded Paramount Equity Mortgage, where he underwrote ~$20 billion in mortgages. With stringent criteria and focused operational foresight, Hayes successfully navigated Paramount Equity Mortgage through severe market conditions in 2008, becoming one of few surviving entities. Later, Hayes also founded Paramount Solar . After quickly garnering significant market share, he sold Paramount Solar to SolarCity, where he served as Chief Revenue Officer for 3 years, growing its business 400 percent– 10 times the size of its nearest competitor .

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Tanguy Serra

Partner, CIO

As Co-Founder of GoodFinch, Tanguy brings extensive experience across capital markets, clean energy, and financial technology. As President and Chief Investment Officer of GoodLeap, he quickly helped the organization establish market dominance as one of the leading solar lenders in the U.S. Prior to his current roles, Tanguy spent several years in investment banking with Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley (London), nearly a decade investing institutional capital at TPG, co-founded Vivint Solar, and served as Chief Operating Officer and President of SolarCity– where he oversaw 10,000 employees, and helped grow to 40% of market share. Alongside Hayes, Tanguy oversaw origination of ~17,000 solar systems per month and tracked performance of hundreds of thousands of systems across FICO bands, lease/PPA/loans, and geographies while serving at SolarCity.

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Andrew Mills

Partner

As a Partner of GoodFinch, Andrew brings valuable fintech and clean energy experience to this seasoned team. Andrew was the first employee of GoodLeap before founding GoodFinch with Hayes and Tanguy. Prior to GoodLeap, Andrew worked at SolarCity where he helped launch the company’s first international expansion in Mexico City. Andrew graduated from Princeton University, where he was Captain of the Varsity Soccer Team and President & Co-Founder of Princeton’s Best Buddies chapter .

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Nick Franchot

Partner

Nick Franchot is a partner at GoodFinch. Mr. Franchot’s prior experiences include leading the credit investment program of Hall Capital, a $50 billion multi-family office headquartered in San Francisco, investing for the global macro hedge fund Passport Capital, and serving as a Senior Policy Advisor at the US Treasury Department during the first term of the Obama Administration. Mr. Franchot holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA from Yale University.

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Nira Desai

Director of Finance

As Director of Finance at GoodFinch, Nira is responsible for managing accounting, finance, and tax operations. Nira has over ten years of experience in accounting and financial operations. Prior to GoodFinch, Nira spent ten years at Waterfall Asset Management in New York, a distressed credit hedge fund, where she was part of the company’s growth from $2B to $10B in assets under management. During her time at Waterfall, Nira served as the Director of Finance and Control where she focused on streamlining back-office accounting and operational processes both in the U.S. and Europe. Nira then served as the Director of Risk Management at Waterfall where she created a counterparty risk function. Nira began her career at KPMG as an Audit Associate working in the real estate and pension practice. Nira holds an undergraduate degree in Business Administration and a master’s degree in professional accounting from the University of Texas at Austin. Nira also holds a CPA license in the State of New York.

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CJ Harris

Vice President

As Vice President at GoodFinch, CJ is responsible for sourcing and underwriting investment opportunities, monitoring the portfolio, and handling investor relations. Prior to GoodFinch, CJ was a Private Equity Associate at Aurora Capital Partners in Los Angeles, where he worked on a team that managed over $3.5b in assets, assisting with platform investment diligence and execution, as well as portfolio company value creation initiatives across a variety of sectors, including energy. He began his career at Barclays as an Investment Banking Analyst in the Financial Sponsors Group, where he focused on underwriting sponsor-backed leveraged acquisition financings. CJ holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from Princeton University. He is on the ambassador board for 9 Dots, a charity that teaches a computer science curricula at Title 1 elementary schools in Los Angeles.

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Ania Kinalski

Senior Associate

As Senior Associate at GoodFinch, Ania is responsible for developing financial models, analyzing asset performance, and handling investor relations. She began her career at Goldman Sachs as an Equity Research Analyst covering the clean energy sector . Prior to GoodFinch, Ania was a Senior Associate at UBS Private Wealth Management in Los Angeles, where she worked on a team that managed $3.2 billion in assets and developed and implemented client portfolio allocations. She was the West Coast representative of Club17, a firm-wide sustainability group at UBS. Ania holds an undergraduate degree inEconomics and Accounting from the University of Southern California where she was a Presidential Scholar .

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Kenny Mckee-Proctor

Senior Associate

Kenny is a Senior Associate at GoodFinch, specializing in financial modeling, asset performance analysis, and investor relations. He was previously a member of the strategy team at GoodLeap, where he worked under Tanguy and Hayes focusing on corporate development, strategic finance, and fundraising. Kenny started his career in technology investment banking at BMO Capital Markets. He holds a double major in Economics and Government from Wesleyan University, where he was also on the varsity rowing team.

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Cyrus Hatam

Analyst

As Analyst at GoodFinch, Cyrus is responsible for developing financial models and analyzing asset performance. Prior to GoodFinch, Cyrus was a student at Princeton University, where he was a member of the Rowing team. He graduated Magna Cum Laude with an undergraduate degree in Public Policy and two minors in Statistics and Machine Learning and Cognitive Science. During his undergraduate career, he completed two data science internships at Syntasa and Bancolombia. He also founded IntraCounsel, an online college counseling service run by college students, and assisted dozens of high school students with their applications.

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Ania Kinalski

Associate

As Associate at GoodFinch, Ania is responsible for developing financial models, analyzing asset performance and handling investor relations. Prior to GoodFinch, Ania was a Senior Associate at UBS Private Wealth Management in Los Angeles, where she worked on a team that managed $3.2B in assets and developed and implemented client portfolio allocations. She was the West Coast representative of Club17, a firm-wide sustainability group at UBS. She began her career at Goldman Sachs as an Equity Research Analyst covering the clean energy sector. Ania holds an undergraduate degree in Economics and Accounting from the University of Southern California as a Presidential Scholar.

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CJ Harris

Associate

As Associate at GoodFinch, CJ is responsible for developing financial models, analyzing asset performance and handling investor relations. Prior to GoodFinch, CJ was a Private Equity Associate at Aurora Capital Partners in Los Angeles, where he worked on a team that managed over $3.5B in assets, assisting with platform investment diligence and execution, as well as portfolio company value creation initiatives across a variety of sectors, including energy. He began his career at Barclays as an Investment Banking Analyst in the Financial Sponsors Group, where he focused on underwriting sponsor-backed leveraged acquisition financings. CJ holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from Princeton University. He is on the ambassador board for 9 Dots, a charity teaching computer science curricula at Title 1 elementary schools in Los Angeles.

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"I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy"

Thomas Edison to Henry Ford
1931

Good for Consumers

Our borrowers are homeowners who are making a conscious choice to invest in the long-lasting impact of clean energy solutions to reduce their carbon footprint, while saving money and improving their home.

Steadfast decisions and steady returns,
driven by data

84%

84% of fund managers report an increase in demand for ESG-oriented funds

48%

Solar generation is projected to climb from 11% of total U.S. generation in 2017 to 48% by 2050 making it the fastest growing electricity source

100%

Renewable energy is the fastest growing energy source in the U.S., increasing 100% from 2000-2018

Addressing climate change
with predictable, steady returns

There is no if in the solution to the climate crisis, only when and how. This infinite truth ensures that progress toward solutions will accelerate exponentially, and those who invest in its course will benefit beyond measure.

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