About Cole Farmer
Photo: 2017 Cole Farmer (2nd from right) and his business partner Joseph Gatt (3rd from left), in Goma, DR Congo.
Cole Farmer has been an entrepreneur in the energy space since 2013. After graduating in Business Administration from Utah State University Cole helped with startup LGCY Power that became the largest solar sales organization in the U.S. Cole built 65% of LGCY’s sales running their East and South East US Markets.
Cole founded Core Energy Group, a solar installation company that grew to over 500 employees and after 6 years acting as the CEO, Core Energy was sold in an asset purchase to Complete Solar. Core was started without any outside capital and was known for quick and efficient solar installations. Core completed many residential, commercial, and utility scale solar installations and did $155,000,000 in annual revenue during its peak year.
At Complete Solar, Cole was personally mentored by billionaire CEO TJ Rogers who has worked over 36 years as a public company CEO. “TJ taught me how to run a public company, how to raise capital, as well as how to effectively run a large organization. I’ll be forever Grateful to TJ and Veleta Rogers for their mentorship.
Cole’s latest venture is developing solar projects in East Africa, in 4 months time that venture has already contracted and begun work on large solar projects. This company looks forward to working on various large scale utility solar projects in Africa and helping hit government and investor goals.
Hobbies and Interests
Outside of business Cole enjoys spending time with his family, coaching youth sports, fly fishing, and supporting Utah State in athletics. Cole also enjoys serving in his local community particularly working with the youth in his local area.