About Home Run Financing

Mr. Giles brings 25+ years of experience in public finance banking and solar photovoltaic sales channel management and finance. Bob was the founder and CEO of Ready Solar, which he sold to SunEdison in 2010. Ready Solar was the first company to productize residential solar systems to allow the HVAC, roofing and electrical trade contractor as well as home improvement channels to enter the residential solar business.

Prior to Ready Solar, Bob was a Managing Director in the Municipal Finance Groups at both Bank of America and Merrill Lynch for a combined 18 years. Bob led the Private Activity Bond Departments at both firms specializing in Industrial Development and other Exempt Facility Bond categories. Bob received his MBA from University of Southern California.

Mr. Schmidt brings 15+ years of solar experience in structured finance (loans, leases, etc.) for residential solar systems and setting up sales operations support for solar dealer networks. At SunEdison, Mark drafted the company’s first dealer agreement, created the financial model for the first residential solar lease and helped the sales team to sign the first authorized residential dealers. Prior to SunEdison, Mark worked at SunPower in the same capacity and created the dealer portal which included a suite of software tools for dealers. Mark was also involved with strategic planning, legal documentation with partners and customers, credit policies and procedures. Mark received his MBA from University of California at Davis.

Rich has more than 25 years of business experience, specializing in solving complex business problems. Rich co-led the DynaSolar team in successfully installing one billion dollars of renewable assets (solar/wind) for the Capital Dynamics Clean Energy Infrastructure Fund. Previously, Rich became a CPA and worked for private venture capital-funded companies, including Triformix, Lightlogic (sold to Intel), and Obsidian (sold to Applied Materials). He has developed, implemented, and executed business plans to grow as well as restructure companies to meet operating and financial targets. He has extensive experience with M&A and fundraising, including debt and private equity financing. Rich attended Santa Clara University, where he received his MBA, and California Polytechnic at San Luis Obispo, where he studied business finance. He is also a CA DRE Broker and a CCIM (Certified Commercial Investment Member).

Rob joined Home Run Financing with 20 years business experience in financial, operations, and sales and marketing roles. He previously worked as VP of Business Development for JARP industries, and, most recently, was Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, for Aqua Finance, Inc. Rob holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting from Babson College (Wellesley, MA).

James Vergara is responsible for Home Run Financing’s capital markets and funding activities, including overseeing the company’s transition to a structured finance vehicle and managing Home Run Financing’s three private ABS securitizations totaling over $170 million. He brings over 16 years of municipal finance, fixed income and derivatives experience and over five years of PACE administration experience to Home Run Financing.

James began his career in New York at Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers and Deutsche Bank. At Deutsche Bank, he was responsible for the Firm’s principal PACE financing business and worked to gain program administration approvals in California, Louisiana and New Jersey. Most recently, James established and launched the Spruce PACE program at Spruce Finance, a seasoned consumer lender in the solar and energy efficiency financing markets. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.

Ryan Griffin has 15+ years of legal experience and is a member of the state bars of California and Washington, and is also a member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the U.S.  While in private practice, Ryan developed extensive real estate litigation experience, representing contractors, developers, homeowners, and mortgage and other lien holders.

Ryan also had a successful practice as outside counsel, advising both early stage and publicly traded companies through corporate formation, funding, mergers and acquisition, real estate deals, negotiations, litigation, and navigating compliance and regulation issues in emerging industries.

Mrs. Hobbs worked in the Chief Executive’s department of a local UK municipality servicing the Finance & General Purposes Committee and its subcommittees before leaving for Moscow, Russia where she was the Marketing Manager for the Tax & Legal Services department of PwC. Having settled in the US , Rachel successfully developed, implemented and expanded the multimillion dollar SunPower Rebate Assignment nationwide for installers and energy companies.

Rachel holds a  Bachelor’s degree from the University of Kent at Canterbury with a post graduate diploma from the University of Westminster.