Peter Krajsa
President and CEO @Energyfirst Finance Powered By Af Financial Llc
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President and CEO @Energyfirst Finance Powered By Af Financial Llc
Allentown, PA, US
EnergyFirst Finance, powered by AF Financial LLC, is an energy efficiency financing and program management company with historical roots in specialized, mission-driven lending dating back to 1947.We partner with contractors, manufacturers, distributors,utilities, and industry trade groups to develop and administer financing and related programs designed to help improve the affordability and uptake of energy-related property improvements. These include heating and cooling systems; building envelope improvements (windows, doors, roofing and insulation); lighting; renewable energy and other energy related improvements for homes and businesses.The EnergyFirst Finance team is led by Peter Krajsa, a recognized innovator in energy efficiency finance for over two decades. Peter spear-headed the creation of a number of major national energy finance programs as CEO of AFC First Financial Corporation, a specialty residential energy efficiency lender, operating programs nationally with a network of over participating contractors. Most recently, he headed national channel business development for the innovative energy lender, Renew Financial, which acquired AFC First in 2015 as part of its national expansion plans.
EDUCATION
The Wharton School
BS Economics
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ABOUT PETER KRAJSA
A recognized innovator in energy efficiency finance for over two decades, Peter Krajsa is Co-Chair and Founder of the National Energy Improvement Fund, LLC. Peter led the creation of a number of major national energy finance programs as chairman and CEO of AFC First Financial Corporation, a specialty residential energy efficiency lender, operating programs nationally in association with states, municipalities, utilities, manufacturers and a network of over participating contractors. Most recently, he headed national channel business development for the innovative energy lender, Renew Financial, which acquired AFC First in 2015, as part of its national expansion plans. As CEO of AFC First, a company founded by his parents in 1947, Peter created the company’s national EnergyLoan® program as one of Fannie Mae\'s approved Energy Lenders; the Keystone Home Energy Loan Program in cooperation with the Pennsylvania Treasury Department,DEP, and PHFA which laid the foundation for WHEEL (Warehouse for Energy Efficiency Loans), the world’s first investment grade rated securitization of a portfolio of unsecured energy loans; the Connecticut Solar Leasing program and many other state, utility and manufacturer financing program including on-bill financing programs in Connecticut and Illinois. After running AFC with his brother, primarily as a mortgage banker and direct lender, Peter moved the company exclusively into energy efficiency lending in Under his leadership, AFC First closed over $500 million in energy efficiency loans, was named by the U.S. DOE as the nation’s first private Home Performance with ENERGY STAR sponsor, a pilot lender for the HUD PowerSaver program, received the Alliance to Save Energy Andromeda Award and established the Green Energy Training Academy supported by the Rockefeller Foundation.
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