Company

Business Philosophy

At Solar Capital it is our belief that we should be aware, informed, involved and committed to the changes going on in the "Clean Energy" marketplace. We will do this by researching the most current activites in the marketplace, listening to the experts, ideasman and the customers, and by working with people who have a sense of respect for concepts and ideas regardless of whether or not they agree with them.

History

The Ideas for Solar Capital Inc. arose in 2005 when our team began to see the significant changes in the climate in California, Florida and the rest of the Sunbelt chain. These weather patterns began to create great interest for us all.   As a result, we began to research the subject and the market potential for the solar industry.     Because of this research, in April 2007, we gathered together a working group of partners and investors and formed Solar Capital Inc.  

People

Sharisse L. Lanaux, CEO

Mrs. Lanaux’s business career began in 1986 as investment advisor and Operations Manager for Realty Information Systems, a real-estate investment advisory and project management company.   During her tenure as operations manager, her responsibilities included overseeing all employees, providing weekly reports to investors as well as preparing training manuals for each department. She also developed a due diligence system for tracking, analyzing and acquiring properties for investors on a daily basis in seven counties throughout northern California.   In her capacity as Investor advisor, she managed an investment portfolio of over $25 million. Additionally, she advised individual investors and pension trusts on the purchase of real estate.  

In 1997 she became President and owner of Premier Financial Associates Inc.   In that capacity she has maintained and developed important relationships with lenders, credit unions, private investors as well as pension trusts.   This expertise is a key to providing capital for investments in the solar industry.   With her assistance and leadership solar capital will grow to become an important part of the solar industry in California and throughout the nation

Brett C. Conliffe, Director

Mr. Conliffe also the founder of Renaissance Integrated Corporation and RIC Financial Services, began his career in accounting and finance in the early 1990’s. Mr. Conliffe has been responsible for all financial reporting functions, operations and managerial matters for businesses. Mr. Conliffe has held positions as Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, General Manager and Controller of companies such as Embraer Aircraft Corporation, Trans Chemical Corporation, Honeycomb Corporation, & several finance and leasing companies. In these capacities, Mr. Conliffe had direct reporting responsibilities for administration, personnel, accounting, business development, finance, contract negotiation, facilities management, automated systems (technology), tax issues and investor relations. Also, playing a vital role in the development and growth of these companies; increasing lines of credit from $2M to over $125M during his tenure, Mr. Conliffe managed portfolios in excess of $175M. His executive role in these companies enabled the raising of venture capital, equity and debt financing, and Mr. Conliffe provided high-level counsel to the company’s owners and top executives. He has many years of managerial experience, including sales.

Marvin B. Wilcher, Acquisition Strategies Director

Mr. Wilcher’s business career dates back to 1986.   While providing business-consulting services to an asset based lender, he was requested to assist in the purchase of a pre chapter 11 furniture company. With the goal of restructuring, renaming, and selling the company, Mr. Wilcher completed the transaction in approximately 4 months. This transaction provided Mr. Wilcher with a handsome profit and his first endeavor in the field of Mergers and Acquisitions.  Shortly thereafter, Mr. Wilcher began providing consulting services to small business owners and investors whom he assisted in the purchasing of troubled companies.   Among other transactions, Mr. Wilcher purchased a second troubled furniture company, a computer software company, and a chain of video rental stores.   All of these experiences gave Mr. Wilcher great exposure to the day-to-day responsibilities of personnel management, budgeting and cost cutting, marketing and acquisition contract negotiations under difficult conditions.  In 1992, Mr. Wilcher purchased several pre-liquidation metal fabrication companies in the industrial equipment, aerospace and medical instrumentation industries.   Although the companies were substantially undercapitalized and had declining sales, Mr. Wilcher was able to successfully increase sales and restructure the companies.   During this time, Mr. Wilcher learned extensively about the metal fabrication business, from valuing machinery and equipment and labor rate pricing to contract bidding and marketing.

Since 1986, on behalf of investors and himself, Mr. Wilcher has visited and analyzed the plants and facilities of more than 400 manufacturing and distribution companies.   He has additionally reviewed and analyzed the financial statements of another 350 companies in various industries.   Through this process, Mr. Wilcher has developed a keen sense of what makes manufacturing and distribution companies successful and what causes them to fail. Over this same period of time Mr. Wilcher has arraigned more than $65,000,000 in financing for these companies.     Throughout the years, Mr. Wilcher has been involved with complex transactions such as the deal design and structure of USA Circuits attempted acquisition of the world’s largest defense based circuit board manufacturer divested by Raytheon in 1999, and the acquisition of what became the largest African American owned music distribution company with sales over $100,000,000.  Mr. Wilcher attended St Mary’s college in their Paralegal program and later went on to attend San Francisco law school.  

Objectives

To acquire and grow small to medium size solar related companies, that manufacturer, engineer, market and distribute solar products for residential and commercial markets locally, regionally and nationally.

Through this effort we intend to build a national company capable of providing services to its customers in the most efficient way with the latest technology at a fair price with the highest level of customer service possible.