Chief Executive Officer
First Energy Finance
1143 Crane Street, Suite 203
Menlo Park
CAUSA
94025
Biographical Sketch: David Arfin is the founder and CEO of First Energy Finance. He is driven to bring innovative finance offerings that will accelerate the adoption of renewable energy, energy efficiency and other clean technologies. Arfin invented SolarCity’s groundbreaking SolarLease, a first-of-its-kind solar financing program that enabled over 10,000 residential, commercial and government customers to adopt solar power, save money, and not have to make a large upfront payment. In November 2009, SolarLease was named by Scientific American as the first of twenty world-changing ideas to build a cleaner, healthier and smarter world. Arfin also received the first ever Innovation in PV Financing Award from the Solar Energy Industry Association.
Prior to SolarCity, David was co-founder and CEO of GlooLabs (acquired by Cisco Systems), co-founded Flywheel Communications, and was founder and CEO of CLE Group (acquired by Practising Law Institute). Before going into business, David was a lobbyist for the Association of American Universities, a Coro Fellow in Public Affairs in Los Angeles, and served as an intern in the Israeli Knesset. He has received an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, an MA in Public Policy Analysis from the Claremont Graduate University, and a BA in Political Science from UCLA where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa.
Arfin holds US Patent #7904382, Methods for Financing Renewable Energy Systems