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William D. French, Esq.
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Will French is the co-founder and President of Film Production Capital, L.L.C.
Film Production Capital provides tax incentive-based financing and financial services to the motion picture and digital media industries. The company has traded approximately $120,000,000 worth of state tax credits since 2003, which has provided financing to film and video game projects with aggregate production budgets of over half a billion U.S. dollars.
Mr. French has been actively involved in the enactment of tax incentive legislation, rules and regulations throughout the United States, and helped to author the very first digital media/video game tax credit program in the United States in 2005.
A graduate of Purdue University in 1995, Mr. French received his J.D. degree, cum laude, from Tulane University School of Law in 1998. At Tulane, Mr. French served on the Tulane Moot Court Board and was the Champion of the 1997 Junior Appellate Moot Court Competition. Upon graduation from Tulane Law School, he was elected by the law school faculty to The Order of Barristers.
Apart from his demanding film and digital media finance activities, Mr. French serves as Special Counsel to the law firm of Fishman Haygood Phelps Walmsley Willis & Swanson, L.L.P. in New Orleans as a tax incentive and corporate law specialist. Mr. French is also on the board of the Fenner-French Foundation, a non-profit charitable institution whose primary focus is to improve the quality of life and work for residents of post-Katrina New Orleans.
Mr. French is a life-long resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, where he and his family currently reside.
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Stephen G. Roberts, CPA
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Stephen Roberts is the co-founder and Chief Financial Officer of Film Production Capital, L.L.C.
Mr. Roberts is a 1970 graduate of Louisiana State University, a Certified Public Accountant and the former President and current Vice-President of Roberts, Cherry and Company, A Corporation of Certified Public Accountants, with offices in Shreveport, Louisiana and Jackson, Mississippi. He also serves as Vice- President of RCG Network Engineering, Inc, a full-service computer company. He is a licensed securities broker and former Certified Valuation Analyst.
Mr. Roberts is a former Chairman of the Board of CPAmerica, an association of over 75 mid-level CPA firms located throughout the United States. He is a nationally recognized speaker in the Accounting industry having served as the keynote presenter of the AICPA national conference on several occasions.
Mr. Roberts and his family live in Shreveport, Louisiana, a major location for the film and television industry.
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Allison R. Jackson CPA, CVA
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Allison R. Jackson, Tax Credit Manager of Film Production Capital is a 1989 graduate of the University of Louisiana at Monroe, a Certified Public Accountant, and former auditor with KPMG. Allison is currently a Consulting Manager with Roberts, Cherry and Company, a Corporation of Certified Public Accountants where she has been for 10 years. Ms. Jackson lives with her family in Shreveport, Louisiana.
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Mona L. Ketelaar
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Mona L. Ketelaar, Tax Credit Administrator of Film Production Capital, has over 30 years experience in the financial and accounting fields. She is certified in Great Plains Financial Solutions and a former CFO of a technology consulting firm in California. She brings a vast array of knowledge and experience to FPC. Mrs. Ketelaar and her husband moved to Shreveport in 2000 and currently reside in East Texas.
