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.

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.

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.

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.

Jaime Hutson

Partner

Jamie Hutson is a partner of GoodFinch and leads the firm's commercial solar investment program. Mr. Hutson previously spent the last 6 years as an executive at Distributed Solar Development Renewables (“DSD”), the former commercial solar division of General Electric (“GE”) that was spun out with financial backing of BlackRock. Mr. Hutson was the Chief Investment Officer of DSD and was responsible for the firm's underwriting, capital markets and asset management, and led a first-of-its-kind commercial Asset BackedSecuritization in 2022. Under Jamie's leadership, DSD developed or acquired over 500MW of operating commercial solar assets, deploying over $2 billion of project capital. Prior to DSD, Jamie was a VP at GE Capital's Energy Financial Services focused on utility scale renewable energy tax equity investments. Jamie has over $6 billion of renewable project finance transaction experience and has been one of the industry's leading pioneers over the past decade. He received his MBA and a Master of International Affairs in energy economics from Columbia University.

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.