Our Team
George Barry – President
Having joined Foss and Company in 1985, 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 raised over $1.5 billion in federal 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 currently is the General Partner of numerous federal and state historic 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.
Joe Foss – Founder
Mr. Foss has been active in the investment community since 1970. He served as Vice President and head of the tax advantage investment department at Sutro & Company and as Vice President at Mitchum, Jones & Templeton. Mr. Foss was co-founder and president of Casey-Foss, an oil and gas and real estate syndication firm which sponsored and marketed over $700 million in limited partnerships. In 1983 Mr. Foss founded Foss and Company in order to better serve the needs of public and private corporations seeking sound and profitable investment programs. Since the creation of the Affordable Housing Tax Credit program in 1986 by Congress, he has specialized his business activities in the area of marketing tax credit investments to corporations with a strong emphasis on affordable housing tax credits and various state tax credit driven transactions. Mr. Foss has a Series 7, Series 63 and Series 22 securities registration.
Eric Brubaker
Since joining Foss and Company in 2005, Mr. Brubaker has focused primarily on federal and state historic rehabilitation tax credits. He is the lead originator for Foss & Company’s Federal Historic Funds: the Barry Foss Historic Fund and the Foss Special Historic Fund. He is also the lead originator for our Foss NY Historic Fund, Foss N.C. Mill Credit Fund, and the Foss Virginia Historic Funds. Since 2005, Mr. Brubaker has sourced over $150 million of federal and state tax credits for Foss and Company’s investor clients. Mr. Brubaker works out of our New York City branch office and has a Series 7 and Series 63 securities registration.
Erica Giessler
Erica Giessler oversees the fund accounting and financial modeling efforts for Foss and Company’s tax credit investment funds. She has worked extensively in the low-income tax credit and investment tax credit industries. Her experience in tax credit industries emphasize audit, tax, cost certifications, financial analysis and projections for project partnerships and investment fund partnerships. Prior to joining Foss and Company, Ms. Giessler was a manager with Novogradac & Company, LLP. Ms. Giessler earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of California at Santa Barbara and her master’s degree in business administration with an emphasis in accounting from San Francisco State University. Ms. Giessler is licensed as a certified public accountant in California.
Sarun Komin
Mr. Komin is leading the effort in financing renewable energy projects nationally and responsible for client relations and investor reporting. He started his career with JP Morgan Chase in the West Coast Wholesales Banking Division leading the team to implement a web base system to improve the operational process, funding $400 million per month. He then joined Citco Fund Services and Conifer Securities, LLC, working with multiple hedge funds from start up to established funds in a combined AUM of $1.6 billions. Mr. Komin holds a BA from the University of California, Berkeley. Sarun works out of our San Francisco office and has a Series 7 and Series 63 securities registration.
Margie Barry
After five years in the banking arena, Ms. Barry came to work for Joe Foss as a sales assistant in 1978. She then became responsible for partnership closings and compliance, overseeing the operations of the office, security compliance and audits, and the accounting for the company. After 32 years of invaluable service, she remains the bookkeeper and is responsible for booking and processing of sales, commission payouts, and payroll…and she still looks pretty damn good considering the toll that working for Joe and George has taken on her.
