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- Financial Advisory

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- Housing & Energy

Patrick Howard

Founder & Managing Member

Mr. Howard currently serves as Founder and Managing Member of EverGreen Pacific Capital, LLC, an investment banking, financial advisory and consulting firm.   EverGreen is a partner company to Cascadia Equity Leasing, LLC in which Mr. Howard also serves as Director of Financing.

Mr. Howard is highly experienced in financial engineering, financial advisory, business consulting, mergers & acquisitions advisory, municipal finance, project finance, structured finance, real estate development & finance, resort development & finance, enewable energy, and business development.

Prior to starting EverGreen in 2006, Mr. Howard for five years headed the municipal housing practice at Seattle-Northwest Securities Corporation, a leading pacific NW based municipal securities firm. Mr. Howard helped both establish and grow that firm's presence in affordable housing and commercial real estate bond finance, completing over $400 million in bond financings. He is highly experienced in all phases of the financing process including: writing purchase contracts for acquiring real estate property, analyzing financial information, developing sophisticated financial analytical models, assembling financing teams, handling all phases of due diligence, structuring both simple and complex bond financing structures, securing credit enhancement and/or bond ratings, pricing bond issues, preparing various bond related documents, and successfully closing transactions. Prior to joining Seattle NW Securities in 1997, Mr. Howard served two years as vice president of real estate acquisitions and development for Cobalt Properties, Inc. of Seattle, Washington, and five years as a bond ratings analyst for structured and public finance project bond financings for the Standard & Poor's Ratings Group in New York City. While at S&P Mr. Howard concluded rating assessments for the following sectors and security types: affordable housing, asset-backed securitizations, commercial and residential mortgage-backed securitizations, commercial real estate, health care, higher education, utilities, project finance, and municipal finance.

Mr. Howard also has extensive development experience and is presently involved in a resort development project for Triad Resorts, LLC that is utilizing “green” building technologies and renewable energy resources for its casino resort development.

A graduate of the University of San Francisco, where he served on the University Board of Governors as student body president, Mr. Howard also attended Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. where he lettered in Football. Mr. Howard currently serves on the Board of the King County, Washington, Affordable Housing Credit Enhancement Review Committee, the University of San Francisco Pacific NW Council, advisor to Nu Element, Director of Disaster Preparedness Systems, Inc., and Board member of Global Building Systems, Inc.  Mr. Howard holds Series 7, 52, 53 and 63 Securities Licenses, a Real Estate Sales License from the State of Washington, and a Private Pilot's License.

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