Chris Riley
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Harvard MBA
U.S. Naval Academy
Co-Founder, Guzman Energy
Former US Naval Warship Captain
Chris is the Co-Founder and CEO of Blue Clay. Previously, he was Co-Founder and CEO of Guzman Energy, which he built from scratch into a recognized force in U.S. competitive wholesale power markets, delivering hundreds of millions of dollars in savings to rural, tribal, and municipal communities and driving the FERC proceedings that opened competitive wholesale markets to distribution cooperatives across the country.
Before Guzman, Chris served as a career officer in the U.S. Navy, including as commanding officer of the USS Sirocco. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.S. from the U.S. Naval Academy.
Chris founded Blue Clay after his son suffered a massive stroke at thirteen. The family spent the following years crossing three states inside a clinical system where orders routinely contradicted his son's own medical history, buried layers deep in the record. The insight was architectural: medicine is the only high-stakes industry without a verification layer between intent and action.