Chris Arwady

Chris has 11 years of experience in client-facing sales and operations roles in a variety of different industries. After starting his career in 2011 developing value-added vendor partnerships for Energy Smart Home Builders, he gained significant B2B and B2G sales experience with Green Power Solutions and Intex Lighting before launching a start-up with several partners in 2014 called Alternative Fuel Supply (AFS). His role at AFS included both managing and growing his own accounts and supervising a sales team of four, among other tasks. By 2017, his last full year at AFS, the company’s annual revenues were over $4M. He left AFS in the summer of 2018 to pursue an opportunity with Fusion.

Chris joined Fusion as the Business Development Lead for the western US before being promoted to an Account Executive role at the end of 2019. Today, he serves as a Corporate Account Executive who is responsible for the creation and development of new business relationships between Fusion and enterprise organizations that are headquartered in the western US and western Canada. He works closely with his clients to help them develop a proactive, consultative approach to operational resilience. He is particularly proud of the work that he’s done with his collaborators in Fusion Cares (Fusion’s corporate volunteer program) and Fusion Live (Fusion’s virtual music performances) to help lift the spirits of his fellow co-workers throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

Chris is a born-and-raised Chicagoan with a passion for music. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a Master’s degree in Public Policy from DePaul University. He has an amazing family with whom he is very close and a six-year-old beagle mix named Ella who is a total goofball. He also drives a car that can be fueled with either gasoline or low-carbon liquid propane, and he likes to cook (he specifically makes an excellent spaghetti Bolognese)!