Chris Walmsley

Prior to joining East Point Energy as a founding member, Chris helped start HelioSage Energy in 2007. Chris led the utility-scale solar project development firm as President and CEO until the company was sold in 2015 to Coronal Energy. Chris and his partners navigated tremendous growth at HelioSage, establishing the firm as a trusted development partner in the solar industry for a number of the country’s largest institutional investors, major equipment vendors and utilities. Chris left Coronal Energy at the end of 2017.

A true entrepreneur, over 25 years ago Chris and his brother, Pierce, started AutoMax, a marketing distributorship headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic. AutoMax has three divisions – lubricants, automotive aftermarket and industrial cleaning – with exclusive rights to major brands like WD-40, Shell Lubricants, and many others. Since 2009, AutoMax has acquired four competing but complementary businesses including the Shell Lubricant division for the Czech and Slovak Republics. With over 110 employees, and offices in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, AutoMax continues to grow and remain profitable year after year.

From 2001 until 2005, Chris also spent four years building an online ticketing business for Musictoday, a company sold to Live Nation in 2006. Chris helped design the ticketing system that handled sell-out shows from the Dave Matthews Band to John Mayer.

For many years, Chris served on the Board and was the President of Computers4Kids, a local non-profit, after-school technology mentoring program for disadvantaged youth.

Chris holds a BA in History from the University of Virginia.