Epic Financial Funding, LLC helps finance large scale projects with their main focus and expertise in viable renewable energy projects. The company is able to offset the higher initial capital costs associated with renewable generation by strategically aligning itself with key financial partners and by utilizing sophisticated financing structures to raise capital required to develop a project. We know that purchasing, installing and maintaining green energy systems such as wind and solar can require a significant outlay of both capital and resources. Epic’s founders have combined decades of corporate experience with innovative and entrepreneurial problem solving to truly understand today’s developers.
2. Recommendations for Epic Financial Funding
“I have known Randy for 12 years and worked for him very early in my career. While at Midwest
National I watched the company successfully transform from a single branch operation to a nationally
recognized lender in the mortgage industry. Randy’s leadership skill, and "no non-sense" direct
approach was a factor in his success. I have a great deal of respect for his years of knowledge,
professionalism, integrity and would highly recommend him.” -- (April 9, 2009)
Julie Dietz, Director of Training, Bear Stearns
worked directly with Phillip(Randy) at Midwest National Mortgage, Banc
“It is my distinct pleasure to write a recommendation for Phillip. I have had the pleasure of working
with him for more than 4 years and I think the world of Phillip. Phillip Carson is a highly talented
professional and an incredibly giving individual. He treats his clients and colleagues with the utmost
respect and will jump through fires to help someone in need. I would highly recommend him for any
professional organization and firmly believe that he could make a very significant contribution to an
organization.” (May 6, 2009)
Noelle Kim, Investment Advisor representative, Investment Advisors International
worked directly with Phillip(Randy) at World Financial Group
“Randy Carson is a great center of influence and a leader in the financial services industry. He led the
Cincinnati team he built to success with quality and a commitment to excellence. We created an
amazing amount of synergy which led to record setting performance. Randy reached SVP as fast as it
could be achieved and was fun to work with. I highly recommend him.” (April 20, 2009)
Tom Mathews, National Sales Director, A.L. Williams
managed Phillip(Randy) at A.L. Williams/Priamerica Corp.
4. Managing Partner & CEO of Epic Financial Funding
Phillip (Randy) Carson
Phillip (Randy) Carson, Managing Partner of Epic Financial Funding, Inc, studied at the
University of Cincinnati on the GI Bill to obtain an AD in Police administration in conjunction
with the Ohio state highway patrol academy in Columbus Ohio, graduating in December of
1969. After three years as a law enforcement officer in Ohio, enrolled at Xavier University and
studied Finance and Stock Market Analysis. In 1977 received a professional designation of
(Certified Insurance Counselor) in Risk Management.
Randy has 30 years experience in financial services and lending and began his career in 1974 as
Founder and President of Clermont Insurance and Financial Services. In 1993 Mr. Carson
founded Midwest National Mortgage Bank, where his company was nationally rated in the top
100 privately owned mortgage banks in the United States.
From 1973-1998 Randy was active in Ohio Republican politics in several capacities. He was
elected to public office twice and served eight years as an elected official. Randy was a
statewide delegate to the Ohio Republican Party and served as Finance Chairman of his county.
He was the youngest ever in Ohio to be appointed to Chairman of the Board of Elections. Randy
worked and managed two congressional district positions for Ronald Reagan and James A.
Rhodes, Governor of Ohio. Randy worked throughout Ohio for Senator Robert A Taft's reelection to the U.S. Senate. In 1999 he served in an official position for Governor Robert A. Taft
II as a small group of statewide host committee members and served as one of his chief fund
raisers. Randy was nominated to President Gerald Ford's National Education Committee in 1974,
and was invited to the White House on two occasions. In addition, Randy was elected as a life
member of the national registry of Who's Who in Business in 1999.
5. Managing Director of Epic Financial Funding
Alexander Ferguson
Alexander Ferguson sits on the Board of Directors of Epic Financial Funding. He has more than 25 years experience designing
complex global information environments and total business solutions, as well as launching and managing several successful high
technology ventures. Mr. Ferguson brings the business experience garnered from building a multi-million dollar defense
contracting company, as well as a cutting-edge technical know-how, and the visionary acumen of a true futurist to the complex
needs of solving today’s strategic business information problems.
Mr. Ferguson's clients include the Department of State, the Federal Aviation Administration and the Interagency Collaboration
Zone. Mr. Ferguson also served as a recognized CIO-level consultant to the Executive Office of the President of the United States,
and other world recognized organizations such as the Associated Press, GlobalStar, MD Anderson Cancer Center, The Aerospace
Corporation. Mr. Ferguson has served as the lead architect and technical leader for a number of major global information
networks, including State Department’s global network, which are responsible for several billion dollars of expenditures a year.
Currently, his recommendations to the Department of State's Strategic Planning Office are included in submissions to the White
House, U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress, and other agencies.
The sole founder of Crius, Inc., one of the founders of Intercom Consulting and Federal Systems, and a co-founder of Scarlet Fire
Entertainment; Mr. Ferguson brings the business experience of founding and building a multi-million dollar defense contracting
company, as well as a cutting edge entertainment technology firm to his high level of competence in solving the complex needs of
today's businesses. In the Washington Metropolitan Area, where technologists abound, Washington Technology magazine noted
Mr. Ferguson as one of the area's notable technology entrepreneurs and futurists. In addition, Mr. Ferguson was chosen and
profiled as Contract Professional Magazine’s “All-Star” technologist for January 2002. Mr. Ferguson is also a Co-Founder, and Board
member of the Financial Policy Council in NYC. Of note is that Mr. Ferguson’s patented concept (US Patent # 7,363,497) preceded
Apple Inc.’s iTunes store service by two years, and correctly predicted the rise of downloadable Internet content. Mr. Ferguson’s
next patent (US Patent # 8,212,677) in individual medical logistics predicts the rise of personalized medicine and information
logistics. Technically speaking, Mr. Ferguson has extensive experience in networking and security environments as well as storage
networking systems in global, complex, heterogeneous environments. At the time of his CISSP certification, Mr. Ferguson was one
of only twenty (20) people dual certified with both a CCIE and CISSP worldwide.
In 2000, Mr. Ferguson founded Kaang, Inc. to provide strategic, enterprise-level consulting on security, technology, and business
alignment for major clients. Mr. Ferguson is a 2008 graduate of the Harvard Business School’s elite Owner/President Management
Program. He is also a multi-decade practitioner of the martial arts, and former member of the US Army Reserve.
6. Managing Director of Epic Financial Funding
Dr. Gary Barbosa
Dr. Gary Barbosa is CEO and principal owner of the Champion Family of Companies. Born in
New Jersey, he worked his way through college in the family gas station and body shop.
Board Certified in Medicine and Surgery as well as earning a double major in Biology and
General Science from Villanova University, as well as a minor in Philosophy, gives Dr. Barbosa
an uncanny ability to evaluate innovations and technology. He is one of the founding
members of an international global philanthropy, determined to advance technological
solutions to overpopulation and the depletion of global resources. He is married 29 years,
and has a son and a daughter. Although he retired from medical practice in 1998, he keeps
his medical license current and active.
Champion Technologies, Inc. performs analysis of technology and medical advancements and
their commercial viability. Its three divisions are Life Sciences, which focuses on DNA
manipulation to facilitate cellular repair, thereby delaying the onset of age related maladies
and degradation; Applied Materials, which works with innovators with a goal of altering the
molecular structure of materials making the same superior to that which is currently
produced; and Energy, which evaluates and brings green technology to the market in an
effort to combat climate change.
Champion Technologies, Inc.’s current project is an innovative company that has developed
the process of producing activated carbon used to absorb harmful chemicals such as
mercury, sulfur, and carbon dioxide from coal fired power plants. Champion Technologies
has the responsibility of providing equity and debt financing for the initial project and the ten
plants to follow.
7. Managing Director of Epic Financial Funding
Suman Neupane
SUMAN NEUPANE is an experienced executive and start-up expert with over 25 years of hands-on
experience in the banking and finance industry. His knowledge and capabilities have led to innovative and
groundbreaking introductions and solutions including first time ATMs, telebanking and credit card
transactions in fiercely competitive international and domestic markets.
Mr. Neupane is comfortable communicating with people from diverse backgrounds, occupations and
cultures, and is adept at working within high pressure. He is currently Chairman of the Board of Next
Energy Venture (Nepal), President of Nepal Infrastructure Consult (United States); a partner in TransCash
International (Australia), and CEO of TransCash Investments (Singapore, relocated to the United States).
His areas of expertise include, and are certainly not limited to, Investment Banking, Project Financing,
Energy Projects, all facets of Banking Operations, International Trade Settlement, MIS and Banking
Software Implementation and Policy and Procedure Formulation, During the course of his career, among
his many accomplishments are establishing and opening markets in Bangladesh, Philippines, Viet Nam,
Malaysia, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Middle East and Sri Lanka; implementing Nepal’s initial real time banking
software; successfully establishing a new bank from inception to completion within a period of four
months – and achieving break-even within the first 100 days of operation.
Mr. Neupane sits on the Board of Directors, Swabalamban Bikas Bank, Janakpur, Nepal, is the Chairman of
the Recruitment and Promotion Committee, Swabalamban Bikas Bank, Janakpur, Nepal, is the Chairperson
of SWIFT, Nepal User Group, and is the Secretary of the Nepal Banker's Association. He holds a Master’s
degree in Development Management from the Asian Institute of Management, Manila.
8. Managing Director of Epic Financial Funding
Zack Fonseca
ZACK FONSECA began his educational pursuit of Electrical Engineering at Drexel University.
He then moved to Colorado in 1992 to pursue his interest in renewable energy. He
attended the Solar Technologies Institute in Carbondale, Colorado, where he became a
teaching assistant with the alternative fuels program. He installed his first photovoltaic array
in Aspen that same year. His credits include off-grid system designer and sales manager for
one of the largest solar contractors in the Rockies.
Mr. Fonseca loves inventing and developing new products to change the shape of the world
around us. His conceptual designs have been presented to the Pentagon as well as private
and multinational industry. His design credits include hybrid solar panels, vertical shaft wind
turbines, NZE (Net Zero Energy) structures, mobile PV arrays, and environmental sciences
contributions. He is an expert in energy efficiency. His education and renewable energy
certifications include; Photovoltaic Design, Advanced Photovoltaics, PV Installation (Hands
on Photovoltaics), Residential Wind Power, Micro-Hydro Power, Bio-diesel Production, Solar
Water Heating, Design & Building Natural Homes, Solar Home Design, Renewable Energy for
the Developing World, Solar Water Pumping, and Successful Solar Business.
Among his many influential positions in the solar technology industry, Mr. Fonseca is
Founder and President of Z Funding Group, LLC, in Fort Collins, Colorado; he was founder
and president of Phoenix Renewable Technologies LLC (dba Phretech.com) also in Fort
Collins, and President of Genesis Energy USA Inc. in Greely, Colorado.
9. Consultant to Epic Financial Funding
Joseph F. “Chip” Langston, Jr.
Joseph F. “Chip” Langston Jr. is the Founder, President and 60% owner of TXX Energy
Corporation, a privately held exploration and development company operating in East Texas and
Northwest Louisiana. With its partners, the Company owns and operates over 160 shallow wells
(TXX Operating LLC), and it expanding its acquisitions through continued development drilling
and innovative completion technology.
Before founding TXX Energy, Mr. Langston founded two exploration and development
companies, Buccaneer Energy Corporation and Trans-Western Exploration, Inc. Buccaneer
Energy Corporation is a privately held exploration and development company operating in
Oklahoma, with various non-operating positions in New Mexico, Texas and Louisiana. Direct
activities include supervising the recompletion of purchased wells, along with drilling several
PUD locations, diversified drilling program, as well as audited financial statements and report to
shareholders. Sold the company to Gale Force Petroleum Corporation (GFP.V), a Toronto Venture
Exchange company for cash and shares.
Mr. Langston earned a B.B.A. in Accounting and Finance from University of Texas at Arlington in
1974 and since then has built a strong background in finance, investment banking, and energy
exploration.
10. Why Choose Epic Financial?
Epic is aligned with major manufacturers
Our wind turbine manufactures:
Develop high efficiency wind turbines
• ISO-9001 certified
• Maintain an integrated design for key wind turbine components
such as blades, gearbox, and controls
• 20+ years in design, manufacturing, and installation of wind
turbines
• offer multiple wind turbine models
Our solar panel manufacturers:
• work with brand manufacturers and research institutes
• provide ongoing performance testing backed by certification
• offer latest available products with a high level of efficiency
11. Funding Partners (Partial List)
HUD
Rabo Bank
ING Investment Management
John Hancock Life
Wells Fargo
Metropolitan Life
New York Life
U.S. Bank
Vasari Energy
Ming Yang/China
Bank of Montreal
Compass Capital Management
Krannich Solar
Deutsche Bank
GE Capital
Goldman Sachs
Citibank
Morgan Stanley
JP Morgan
KeyBank
Axa SA
AEGON NV
Allianz
Zurich Financial Services
Bank of America
BNP Paribus
Samsung
Mitsubishi
12. How We Help Finance Wind, Waste, Hydrogen, Solar,
Oil & Gas Projects
• Epic Financial Funding, LLC helps finance large scale projects
with their main focus and expertise in viable renewable
energy projects.
• The company is able to offset the higher initial capital costs
associated with renewable generation by strategically aligning
itself with key financial partners and by utilizing sophisticated
financing structures to raise capital required to develop a
project.
• We know that purchasing, installing and maintaining green
energy systems such as wind and solar can require a
significant outlay of both capital and resources.
• Epic’s founders have combined decades of corporate
experience with innovative and entrepreneurial problem
solving to truly understand today’s developers.
13. Brooke-Alvinston Wind Project Funded
Funded April 2012
Ho-cheol Chang of Samsung with John Cobb at Brooke-Alvinston Township, Ontario, a
project owned by Zephyr Farms Limited. This shows one of four of Samsung 2.5MW
turbines located in southwest Ontario.
Epic Financial Funding, LLC worked on this wind project since September 2009.
For additional information go to: http://www.qtww.com/press-releases?view=91 or
call +1 513.247.0293.
14. Epic Visiting a Solar Plant in Bulgaria
James Mizelle inspecting a solar
plant in Bulgaria
Dinner with partners, clients and
Korean officials from industrial
companies.
15. Epic’s Expectation of the Client
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Shovel-Ready or as close as possible - This is vital to financing a transaction. There are
hundreds of transactions out there, and lenders want to move as quickly as possible on
transactions. This means any deal we take to our sources we expect to be as close to having
pre development completed as possible without having a back end financer. This includes
all feasibility studies, wind studies, environmental impact studies, final or preliminary PPAs,
final building permits, grid connection approval, etc.
Strong Management/ Development team - With the number of deals and the size of
transactions, lenders will want to see experienced and capable management/ development
teams in place. If we perceive that this is lacking, we can recommend large partners for
many projects who will help make financing their project viable as well as adding a strong
strategic partner to the project.
Size and Scope of Business - Projects must be of ample size to warrant our contacts'
interest and time. This means we do not work on energy projects smaller than 5MW and
prefer them to be 20MW+. Our long term goal is to develop relationships with clients who
can provide a pipeline of businesses that will grow due to our contacts and their expertise
over years to come
Professionalism and Flexibility - Our relationships are with very serious institutions and will
not be risked by working with those who do not share our expectation of high work ethics
and professionalism. In addition, we work only with flexible developers, as this industry
calls for creativity and ingenuity. No deal is quite the same and very rarely do they close
with the same terms and structure that was initially conceptualized by the developer. This is
simply the reality of large scale projects.
16. Contact Information
Phillip R. Carson
Managing Principal
Epic Financial Funding, LLC
Phone:+1 513.247.0293
Skype: r.carsonskype
rcarson@pmfohio.com
Christina Benson
Assistant Managing Director
Phone: +1 760.412.7408
Epic Financial Funding, LLC
4938 Hampden Lane #350
Bethesda, Maryland 20814 USA
Fax: +1 301.280.5912