Barry Ellsworth

Barry Ellsworth is the Founder and President of First Home Inc. Originally from Utah, Barry has lived in Las Vegas for over 25 years. He went to college at Brigham Young University, where he earned a BA in Communications, before embarking on a 40-plus-year career in the financial world. His early stints at Dean Witter Reynolds, Wilson Davis Securities, and Prudential Bache laid the groundwork for his later success, during which he raised hundreds of millions of dollars for various projects.

Over the years, Barry has been involved in and funded various business ventures across diverse industries, from defense, construction materials, food and beverage, to entertainment, energy, and large-scale industrial construction. As the founder, former CEO and Chairman of Green Plains Renewable Energy (now Green Plains, Inc., NASDAQ: GPRE), he chose the locations and raised the first $200 million needed to construct of the company’s first two ethanol plants. Under his leadership, the plants were built in the middle of the lowest priced corn in the country, which laid the foundation for Green Plains to emerge as one of the world’s largest ethanol producers, when the Company was able to stay in business because it was paying so much less for corn than other plants and was therefore able purchase various plants out of bankruptcy during the housing crash. GPRE has helped lower fuel costs nationwide and has contributed to cleaner air in both the United States and Canada by powering millions of vehicles daily with environmentally friendly ethanol blends.
Barry is now channeling his expertise and innovative approach on a national basis to transform affordable housing through First Home Inc at a time when it is so badly needed.