FOSS & COMPANY TEAM
FIRM PARTNERS
George Barry
PRESIDENT & CEO
San Francisco, CA
Mr. Barry has been active in the tax credit market as a broker and sponsor of tax credit syndications since the Tax Reform Act of 1986. Mr. Barry has been at Foss & Company since 1985 and has raised more than $6 billion in federal and state tax credit equity for the development of affordable housing, the rehabilitation of historic structures, the development of coal-based synthetic fuel production facilities, and photovoltaic and thermal solar production facilities, as well as a host of state tax credit programs. Mr. Barry represents a broad cross section of institutional investors from insurance companies, financial institutions, manufacturing and distribution companies, and retail and service companies. Mr. Barry is currently the Manager of numerous federal and state tax credit syndicated investment funds. Mr. Barry received a BA from the University of California at Berkeley and a JD from San Francisco Law School in 1983. He is a frequent speaker on the structuring and financing of tax credit transactions at conferences across the country. Mr. Barry has a Series 7, Series 63, and Series 22 securities registration.
GEORGE BARRY
PRESIDENT & CEO
ERIC BRUBAKER
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Charlotte, NC
Eric Brubaker joined Foss & Company in 2005 and became a shareholder in 2012. He oversees the Foss Historic Tax Credit platform and is a member of the Foss Investment Committee. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, and in the past 21 years, he has sourced over $2.5 billion in tax credits. He has a Series 7 and 63 securities registration and works out of our Charlotte office.
ERIC BRUBAKER
MANAGING DIRECTOR
JACK MANS, CPA
CFO, partner & MANAGING DIRECTOR
San Francisco, CA
Jack Mans is a Partner, Managing Director, and Chief Financial Officer at Foss & Company, where he has helped lead the firm's tax credit investment practice since joining in December 2012. As CFO, he oversees the firm's financial strategy and operations, while his role as Managing Director keeps him closely engaged with clients and transactions across Foss's investment platform. Jack also leads the firm's origination efforts in the State of Indiana, building relationships with developers, sponsors, and project partners across the state's growing tax credit market.
Prior to Foss & Company, Jack practiced as a Certified Public Accountant with WithumSmith+Brown, where he advised clients across a range of tax and audit engagements. That foundation in public accounting continues to shape his approach today, combining technical rigor with a practical, client-focused perspective.
Jack holds a B.S. in Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and an MBA from Monmouth University. He is a licensed CPA in both California and New Jersey and is based out of Foss & Company's San Francisco office.
JACK MANS, CPA
CFO & MANAGING DIRECTOR
JOHN S. BOWMAN JR.
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Seagrove Beach, FL
John is a Partner and Managing Director. He joined Foss & Company in June 2014 and became a shareholder in 2018. He focuses primarily on sourcing federal and state historic rehabilitation tax credits for the various Foss Historic Funds or as one-off placements to our corporate investors. He practiced law with Balch & Bingham, LLP for ten years. John was a partner in the firm specializing in real estate, bankruptcy, and both general and business litigation. In 1999 John left the practice of law, though he maintains his membership with the Alabama State Bar, to take a position as Vice President with Guilford Capital Corporation. At Guilford, he helped create the Historic Tax Credit division which created historic tax credit investment funds for both Regions Financial Corporation and Fannie Mae. In 2002, John accepted the position of President of the Small Deal Fund L.P. (“SDF”) with Tax Credit Capital, LLC (“TCC”). During his tenure at TCC, John oversaw the development of thirteen (13) tax credit investment funds. John received a B.S. and J.D. from the University of Alabama in 1986 and 1989 respectively. He works out of our Seagrove Beach, FL office.
JOHN S. BOWMAN JR.
MANAGING DIRECTOR
BRYEN ALPERIN
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Denver, CO
Bryen Alperin is a Partner and Managing Director at Foss & Company, where he leads the firm’s renewable energy and sustainable technologies investment platform. Since launching the division, he has overseen the deployment of billions in tax credit equity across solar, battery storage, advanced manufacturing, and other sustainable technologies. Bryen is recognized for his expertise in structuring complex transactions—including T-Flips, preferred equity, and transferable tax credit financings—and for helping institutional investors navigate the evolving landscape of renewable energy tax credits. A regular speaker at leading industry forums including the United Nations COP27, Bloomberg Sustainable Business Summit, Infocast, SEIA, RE+, UNC Tax Symposium, the Tax Executives Institute, he is also a frequent contributor to media and trade publications such as Bloomberg Tax, the Wall Street Journal, and Novogradac Tax Credit Journal. Bryen began his career in commercial and project finance and holds a BA in Economics, magna cum laude, from the University of California, Davis.
BRYEN ALPERIN
MANAGING DIRECTOR
CAPITAL MARKETS
KEVIN HALEY
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF INVESTMENTS
Denver, CO | Email
Kevin rejoined Foss in July of 2024 after serving as a founding member of a transferable tax credit marketplace startup company. He brings substantial expertise on both tax equity and transferable tax credit transactions and supports the capital raising team to raise new tax equity funds and broker transferability deals. Prior to Kevin's work on tax credit transactions, he was a strategic advisor at the Clean Energy Buyers Association (CEBA), working with Fortune 500 companies pursuing renewable energy power purchase agreements. Kevin began his career working on renewable energy tax credit policy issues in Washington, D.C. Kevin holds a bachelor's degree from Hope College in Holland, MI, and an MBA from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
KEVIN HALEY
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, INVESTMENTS
KIP KIMBLE
VICE PRESIDENT OF CAPITAL MARKETS
Kip Kimble joined Foss & Company in February 2020. As Vice President of Capital Markets, Kip works with insurance companies, financial institutions and other companies to redirect funds earmarked for state and federal taxes into investments that generate tax benefits, cash flow and other benefits including improved ESG ratings. Additionally, Kip runs Foss & Company's debt platform that sources and places project level debt for Foss developer clients to go alongside Foss tax equity investments. Kip brings more than 30 years of commercial real estate and debt experience to the company. For the past 20 years, he has been a loan originator with Deutsche Bank, Prudential and Bellwether where he produced more than $6 billion of new mortgage loans, primarily on multifamily communities across the country. Kip’s other experience includes commercial banking, asset management and commercial real estate brokerage. Kip graduated from the University of Michigan in 1985 with a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Economics within the school of Literature, Science and the Arts.
KIP KIMBLE
VICE PRESIDENT, CAPITAL MARKETS
DREW GOLDMAN
VICE PRESIDENT OF INVESTMENTS
Atlanta, GA | Email
Drew joined Foss & Company in January 2019, and is primarily focused on the placement of institutional investor capital into Foss & Company sponsored state and federal tax credit funds. His 18-year background in financial services includes equity syndication for Raymond James Tax Credit Funds and at Meridian Investments Inc, strategic M&A and global investment banking roles with GE Capital and JPMorgan Chase, and corporate lending for Bank of America. Additionally, Drew spent 5 years in commercial real estate, directing business development for a multi-family management and development firm in the Southeast, and conducting acquisitions in New York and Florida for a self-storage investment and management company. Drew has an MBA from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, and earned his BBA from The University of Texas at Austin.
DREW GOLDMAN
VICE PRESIDENT, INVESTMENTS
JENNIFER PRUETT
VICE PRESIDENT OF INVESTMENTS
Chicago, IL | Email
JENNIFER PRUETT
VICE PRESIDENT, INVESTMENTS
PATRICK O’BRIEN
VICE PRESIDENT, INVESTMENTS
San Francisco, CA | Email
Patrick O’Brien joined Foss & Company as an Investment Operations Intern in March, 2020. He currently operates on the Investments Team as a Vice President. Patrick operates in all segments of investment sourcing, client relations and research processes. Prior to joining Foss & Company Patrick was researching the impact of regulation on the growth of emerging financial technology markets at the University of Otago. He was the youngest graduate from both the Bachelors of Science in Economics and Masters of Finance Degrees in his Alma Matter’s history. Outside of work Patrick spends his time volunteering and finding ways to support small-scale regenerative agriculture with technology.
PATRICK O’BRIEN
VICE PRESIDENT, INVESTMENTS
ADAM RUTHERFORD
VICE PRESIDENT, INVESTMENTS
OLIVIA PARK
VICE PRESIDENT, INVESTMENTS
FRANK RONCHETTI
VICE PRESIDENT, INVESTMENTS
Denver, CO | Email
Frank Ronchetti joined Foss & Company in February 2025 as Vice President, Investments. He works with banks, insurance companies, large corporations, and private financial investors to generate low-risk returns and reduce tax liabilities through the funding of renewable energy and historical real estate development projects. Frank’s passion for helping stop climate change led him to join Foss & Company, where he can identify new sources of capital to fund clean energy projects.
Prior to joining Foss, Frank was Chief Financial Officer for a series of venture capital-backed, early-stage technology companies, raising capital from both financial investors and corporate strategic partners. Before that, he spent 15 years in Europe, investing in, lending to, and raising capital for companies with private equity and venture capital backing. Frank has a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Stanford University and an MBA from The Anderson School at UCLA.
FRANK RONCHETTI
VICE PRESIDENT, INVESTMENTS
DEVIN BENTON
VICE PRESIDENT, INVESTMENTS
Dallas, Texas
Devin Benton joined Foss & Company in April 2026 as Vice President, Investments. In this role, he works with institutional investors and large corporations to direct investment capital into high-impact, tax credit-generating projects including renewable energy, affordable housing, and other tax equity opportunities.
He brings over two decades of experience in institutional investment sales and client relations, with a career that began as a Captain in the U.S. Army. Following military service, he built a strong track record of revenue growth and new asset generation across firms including OFI Global Asset Management, Bridgeway Capital Management, and American Century Investments. Throughout that time, he developed a proven ability to cultivate and close senior relationships with large corporations and institutional capital allocators across the United State and Europe— experience that translates directly to identifying and engaging large taxable investors seeking strong returns alongside measurable impact.
Devin graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Missouri and holds an Associate of Science in Military Science from Kemper Military College. He also holds Series 7 & 63 licenses.
DEVIN BENTON
VICE PRESIDENT, INVESTMENTS
STRAN SUMMERS
VICE PRESIDENT, INVESTMENTS
Durham, NC
Stran led both the tax and investment functions in insurance and noninsurance companies, was a Captain in the US Army and a tax manager at Authur Andersen & Co. He created a tax equity investment program on behalf of his company deploying nearly $1 billion since 2010. He devised the financial & tax accounting, projection and board reporting aspects of the program. He has spoken on aspects of credit investments to a variety of groups. He joined the Foss team in July of 2026. Stran received a BS in Accountancy from Wake Forest University and an MBA from Drexel University.
STRAN SUMMERS
VICE PRESIDENT, INVESTMENTS
VIRGINIA TANNEHILL
VICE PRESIDENT, INVESTMENTS, TRANSFER CREDITS
Davidson, NC
Virginia joined Foss in August 2026 as Vice President of Transfer Credits. She develops relationships with corporate tax credit buyers and helps them source, evaluate, and execute transferable tax credit transactions that provide capital for renewable energy projects.
Before joining Foss, Virginia led enterprise new business for Sunlight Financial. In that role, she developed strategic financial partnerships with some of the nation’s largest organizations across the clean energy, home improvement, and consumer finance sectors.
Earlier in her career, Virginia founded and operated a residential clean energy company, where she secured her company’s trade ally relationship with one of the world’s largest utilities. Over the last decade, she has held business development and sales roles across the solar and energy efficiency industries. Virginia is based in Davidson, NC.
VIRGINIA TANNEHILL
VICE PRESIDENT, INVESTMENTS, TRANSFER CREDITS
CHRIS DELL ISOLA
VICE PRESIDENT, INVESTMENTS
Charlotte, NC
Chris Dell Isola joined Foss & Company in September 2026 as Vice President, Investments. He works with insurance companies, banks, large corporations, and private financial investors to generate low-risk returns and reduce tax liabilities through the funding of historic real estate development and renewable energy projects.
Prior to joining Foss, Chris held a variety of senior finance roles at an insurance carrier, including four years leading the Investments finance function, where he initiated and scaled the company's historic tax credit equity investment portfolio as a Foss client. Before that, he spent 12 years in investment banking. Chris holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a BA in Economics and Classics from the University of Virginia.
CHRIS DELL ISOLA
VICE PRESIDENT, INVESTMENTS
CHRIS HART
ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT
Denver, CO
Chris Hart joined Foss and Company in January 2026 and supports the firm's capital-raising initiatives. He brings extensive experience in investor relations and capital formation, having worked closely with institutional and high net worth investors across private equity and private real estate. Prior to joining Foss & Co, he held senior roles at Partners Group and Sagard Real Estate, where he led investor communications, managed large separate accounts, and partnered with investment teams to provide bespoke portfolio solutions. He began his career at Cambridge Associates, advising private family clients on their public and private markets investments. Chris holds a B.A. in Economics from Middlebury College.
CHRIS HART
ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT, INVESTMENTS
LEGAL
SARAH LIEBER
GENERAL COUNSEL
Denver, CO
Sarah Lieber is an experienced legal professional, with 15 years of experience negotiating and closing strategic transactions, managing corporate governance and ensuring regulatory compliance. She has extensive knowledge of the energy and infrastructure industries, and has represented equity and debt holders across myriad transaction structures for both public and private counterparties. She is licensed to practice law in New York, Texas, Colorado, England, Wales and Ireland. Sarah enjoys travelling and spending time with her family.
SARAH LIEBER
GENERAL COUNSEL