Managing Partner
Chief Financial Officer
Managing Director
Investments
Managing Director
Syndications
Vice President
Portfolio Management
Vice President
Project and Structured Finance
Vice President
Controller
Vice President
Enterprise Operations
Associate
Portfolio Management
Associate
Capital Markets
Portfolio Accounting Manager
Project Controls Manager
Associate
Investments
Senior Accountant
Senior Analyst
Investments
Associate Vice President
Investments
Founder
Managing Partner
Co Founder
Board Member
Co Founder
Board Member
Founder
Managing Partner
Peter DeFazio is the Founder and Managing Partner of Greenprint Capital. As a member of the Board of Directors, Peter provides strategic oversight and guidance on capital formation, investment policy, and market positioning, drawing on more than 15 years of experience in structured finance, renewable energy, and institutional asset management.
Peter serves as a key liaison between the Greenprint team and external stakeholders, including financial institutions, corporate credit buyers, and regulatory bodies, helping ensure fiduciary discipline, policy alignment, and long-term value creation.
Chief Financial Officer
Matt Sommer has 20 years of experience in tax, accounting, and finance. His background includes managing corporate taxes for a Fortune 500 Energy company where he developed an expertise in public utilities and renewable energy. Matt holds a Masters of Accounting with a Tax emphasis from Brigham Young University and is a licensed CPA in the State of California.
Managing Director
Investments
Ed Rossier has more than twenty years of finance, engineering and sustainable design experience. Prior to joining Greenprint, Ed was the head of climate finance at a large impact investment company where he was responsible for the firm’s renewable energy debt and equity portfolios. Previously, he led a team at U.S. Bank that structured and closed $10 billion of investments, financing over 13,000 megawatts of solar, wind, bioenergy, and energy storage projects across the country. Prior to U.S. Bank, he served as the Director of Business Development at the multidisciplinary engineering firm Werner Sobek New York, where he was responsible for structural and façade engineering originations and the firm’s launch of its New York sustainable building technology group. Ed holds a master’s of architecture and urban planning from the University of Washington in Seattle and a bachelor’s degree from Williams College.
Managing Director
Syndications
David Kilper has over fifteen years of experience in tax equity operations and transaction execution. Before joining Greenprint, he was Director of Operations at U.S. Bank’s Environmental Finance group, where he led document negotiations, built a tax credit transfer platform, and supported the sale of $2.9 billion in clean energy credits. He previously deployed $750 million in New Markets and Historic Tax Credit financing and managed a 33-person tech team developing tax equity software solutions. David also served as Managing Director for a real estate startup, closing nearly $100 million in project financing. He holds a J.D. and B.S.B.A. from Saint Louis University and is a licensed attorney in Missouri.
Vice President
Portfolio Management
Michael Blaevoet has 7+ years of experience in the energy and utilities sector and >$2 billion in energy transaction experience. Michael has held senior roles at a Fortune 500 utility and a start-up renewable energy finance company in project finance, wholesale structuring and trading/asset management. Michael received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from CSU Sacramento and a M.S. in Finance from Saint Mary’s College of California.
Vice President
Project and Structured Finance
Jason Chander has more than five years of experience in project finance and accounting within the energy sector. Prior to joining Greenprint, Jason was a Manager with CohnReznick, where he structured various tax equity transactions for the Value 360 Project Finance Group and led audit teams for the National Assurance Practice. He earned his B.S. In Accounting from University of San Diego where he graduated with Departmental Honors.
Vice President
Controller
Weston McCloy is a Certified Public Accountant with 6 years of experience in Accounting and Finance. His background includes roles as an Auditor, Financial Controller, and SPV Manager within the Automotive, Advertising, and Private Investment industries. He earned his B.S. in Accounting from Brigham Young University – Idaho and his Masters of Accounting from the University of Utah.
Vice President
Enterprise Operations
Alex Oakes Neth is an operations professional with a diverse background spanning the automotive, finance, investment, and Fintech industries. For over 11 years, she has been leading the delivery of manufactured and digital products, financial platforms, and helping businesses execute complex projects and change initiatives. Alex has expertise in program management, project execution, operational excellence, and enterprise transformation. In 2023, she was instrumental in launching a new financial technology platform supporting over $21 billion in assets. She is certified in Agile Project Management from the University of Maryland.
Associate
Portfolio Management
Hans Van Dyck has 5 years of portfolio management experience in the renewable energy industry. Prior to joining Greenprint, Hans was the portfolio manager at Rockwood Group where he managed all the tax equity partnerships and negotiated portfolio exits. Hans received his Master of Business Administration and M.A. in Leadership and Management from Webster University.
Associate
Capital Markets
Sam Scatchard has three years of experience in project finance and financial accounting modeling within the renewable energy industry. Prior to joining Greenprint Capital, Sam was a Senior Consultant at CohnReznick LLP, where he updated and built HLBV financial accounting models representing various clients’ tax equity partnership interests in renewable projects for the firm’s Value360 Project Finance & Consulting group. Sam received his B.A. in Economics from Middlebury College where he minored in Environmental Studies.
Portfolio Accounting Manager
Ryan Stoll is a Certified Public Accountant with seven years of experience in Accounting and Finance. His professional journey encompasses over three years in tax accounting and two years in financial reporting for a Renewable Energy developer, EPC, and operator. He holds a Bachelor of Accountancy from The University of San Diego.
Project Controls Manager
Karla Gadea has over 7 years of experience in finance with emphasis in commercial loan risk management and underwriting. She’s worked for companies like Axos, Truist, and California Bank and Trust launching various projects, programs, and bank wide training. Karla received her B.A. In Economics with a minor in Business Management from the University of California Santa Cruz.
Associate
Investments
Luke Savage has 2 years of experience working in corporate finance and equity capital markets. Prior to joining Greenprint, Luke was an analyst at Goldman Sachs where he managed the reporting of trading portfolios and market transactions for the equities controller division. Luke received his Bachelor of Business Administration from Loyola Marymount University with a concentration in Finance.
Senior Accountant
Graham Doxey earned his B.S. and Masters of Accounting from Brigham Young University and is a licensed CPA. He has 2 years of accounting and auditing experience within the VC fund, SaaS, and not-for-profit industries.
Senior Analyst
Investments
Associate Vice President
Investments
Matt Bettino has five years of experience in renewable energy project finance. Prior to joining Greenprint, Matt was a Senior Investments Associate at Enhanced Capital, where he originated, negotiated and closed various tax equity, preferred equity, and private credit transactions. Matt received his B.A. in History from Dartmouth College with a modification in Economics.
Co Founder
Board Member
Michael Miller is a founder and Vice President at Miller Bros., an energy services firm based in Conshohocken, PA. He is part of the founding team at Miller Bros. Solar, a national operations and maintenance provider to owners of energy generating facilities. He spends as much time as possible raising, watching, laughing, and learning with his family.
Co Founder
Board Member
Gregg Freishtat is a technology executive with over 20 years of experience leading innovative and transformative companies. He founded five venture-backed start-ups, with four successful exits and is now Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer of Solar Inventions. Deeply rooted in venture capital and management of technology companies, he has led several companies through acquisition and has had a hand in developing disruptive technologies in convergence of telecom/internet, personal finance/online banking, web based analytics and digital media/online marketing and currently solar energy.
Private credit—including tax credit bridge financing—is a bespoke, non-dilutive capital solution designed to meet the interim liquidity needs of renewable energy sponsors. These debt instruments typically are short- to medium-term and are secured by anticipated project milestones, tax credit transfer proceeds, or contracted cash flows.
With the rise of transferability under Section 6418 of the Internal Revenue Code, tax credit bridge loans have emerged as a critical tool for sponsors seeking to accelerate project timelines while awaiting tax credit monetization. These facilities provide sponsors with early access to capital during construction or before achieving commercial operation—without requiring immediate equity dilution or long-term commitments.
Private credit allows sponsors to scale quickly and enables institutional investors to capture senior yield with structured downside protection. Benefits include:
Interim Liquidity: Financing is secured against future tax credit proceeds, milestone payments, or contracted offtake, allowing sponsors to fund interconnection, procurement, or construction costs.
Custom Terms: Loan sizing, tenor, and repayment schedules are tailored to project-specific cash flows and anticipated credit transfer dates.
Senior Position:
Private credit facilities typically sit at the top of the capital stack, offering investors enhanced protection through covenants and collateral.
Tax Credit Alignment:
For tax credit bridge loans, repayment often is timed to coincide with the receipt of tax credit transfer proceeds, reducing refinance risk and optimizing capital efficiency.
Preferred equity is a hybrid investment structure that offers investors a senior claim to a project’s operating cash flows—while retaining the upside potential typically associated with equity ownership.
In clean energy infrastructure, preferred equity is increasingly favored by passive investors seeking stable returns, downside protection, and alignment with long-term asset performance.
Unlike debt, which is rigid in repayment schedules and often secured by liens on project assets, preferred equity is more flexible. It does not require fixed amortization and can accommodate the variable cash flows inherent to renewable energy projects. This flexibility makes it an ideal instrument for sponsors seeking capital without over-leveraging their projects or triggering restrictive debt covenants.
For investors, preferred equity delivers predictable income with control and strategic optionality. Benefits include:
Priority Distributions: Preferred returns are paid ahead of common equity, often structured as a fixed or target yield
Downside Protection: Sits above common equity in the capital stack, reducing exposure to project-level volatility
Flexible Exit Options: Can be structured with redemption features or convertible rights, providing tailored liquidity
Tax-Advantaged Yield: In certain structures, distributions may be treated more favorably than interest income
The Transfer Flip or T-Flip is a hybrid tax equity structure designed to combine the flexibility of tax credit transferability with the traditional mechanisms of a tax equity investment but tailored for large banks and financial institutions. It leverages the transferability provisions under Section 6418 of the Internal Revenue Code, allowing tax credits to be sold to unrelated parties for cash without the need to syndicate partnership interests.
Key Characteristics:
The T-Flip enables Sponsors and Investors to monetize up to 100% of a partnership’s tax credits through a direct transfer, generating liquidity without requiring the credit buyer to take an ownership stake in the underlying assets. Depreciation and cash flows still are allocated among the partners through a traditional flip structure, offering flexibility to achieve the desired project economics.
Partial or Full Tax Credit Transfer:
In a T-Flip, some or all of a partnership’s tax credits are transferred to an unrelated third-party tax credit buyer. This transfer monetizes the tax credits as they are generated at a predetermined price per credit, generating early liquidity that is then allocated to the members.
Warehousing by Financial Institutions:
Large banks or financial institutions often act as intermediaries, lending or investing capital in anticipation of an eventual tax credit sale, essentially “warehousing” the tax credits prior to their eventual transfer.
These institutions can either utilize the credits to offset their own tax liabilities, or cause the partnership to transfer the credits later to a buyer in their network of corporate taxpayers. This offers a tailored solution for buyers who need tax credits but prefer more flexible payment terms.
Benefits to Sponsors:
Immediate liquidity from a tax credit transfer allows sponsors to fund construction earlier and with fewer constraints compared to a traditional tax equity structure.
By working with financial institutions, sponsors gain access to both networks of potential tax credit buyers and enhanced market liquidity.
Advantages for Financial Institutions:
The T-Flip allows for precise management of tax positions and the bulk acquisition of tax credits while also enabling first looks at the best transaction opportunities.
Financial institutions also gain the flexibility to sell tax credits on demand to corporate taxpayers at favorable payment terms, aligning their interests with the buyers’ cash flow preferences.
Use Cases:
Large-Scale Projects: Utility-scale renewable energy projects requiring significant capital for construction.
Corporate Networks: Institutions with access to a broad base of corporate clients seeking tax liability offsets.
Flexible Financing: Tax credit buyers who value timing flexibility over immediate tax credit utilization.
Challenges:
Regulatory Compliance: Careful structuring is required to comply with tax credit transfer regulations under Section 6418.
Market Risk: Resale of tax credits depends on the tax positions of, and demand from, corporate taxpayers.
Why the T-Flip is Valuable:
The T-Flip provides a mechanism for project sponsors to access upfront capital without the constraints of a traditional equity investor while also giving financial institutions a tool to efficiently manage their inventory of tax credits. More broadly, the T-Flip helps increase overall clean energy investment by enhancing the flexibility and efficiency of tax credit monetization.
Because many project sponsors lack sufficient tax appetite to fully utilize available tax credits, tax equity is a critical source of capital for renewable energy developers. By partnering with a tax equity investor, sponsors can monetize these credits and reduce their cost of capital—thereby ensuring that more projects reach financial close.
Key Characteristics:
Tax equity is a project finance structure in which an investor—typically a large corporation with predictable U.S. federal tax liability—provides upfront capital to a renewable energy project in exchange for a majority share of the project’s tax benefits. These benefits generally include the Investment Tax Credit (ITC) or Production Tax Credit (PTC), along with depreciation (MACRS) and, in some cases, a portion of the project’s operational cash flows. Reflecting the predictable nature of tax equity returns, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued guidance in 2021 that characterizes tax equity arrangements as the functional equivalent of a loan for regulatory and accounting purposes.
Hybrid Tax Equity:
Hybrid Tax Equity refers to a financing structure in which elements of a traditional tax equity investment and direct monetization of tax credits are combined to optimize project financing. This approach leverages flexibility introduced by recent tax credit regulations, such as tax credit transferability, to help project sponsors and investors tailor financial arrangements that meet specific goals, including cash flows, risk management, and returns.
Incorporation of Tax Credit Transfers:
Under the transferability provisions of Internal Revenue Code Section 6418, projects can sell certain tax credits directly to unrelated taxpayers for cash. Hybrid structures incorporate this flexibility, allowing sponsors to monetize a portion of the tax credits through transfers while still attracting traditional tax equity investments for the remaining credits and operational cash flows.
Customization of Cash Flows:
Projects can split revenue streams, utilizing tax credit sale proceeds to generate upfront liquidity while traditional tax equity investors focus on other financial benefits, such as depreciation or operational income.
Hybrid models are particularly useful for managing timing mismatches between the need for near-term capital and tax credit availability.
Risk and Return Allocation:
The hybrid structure allows sponsors to diversify financing sources, allocating risk between tax credit buyers and equity investors.
Tax credit buyers typically require lower returns in exchange for assuming minimal project risk, while traditional tax equity investors may demand higher returns in exchange for broader risk exposure.
