Wal van Lierop
President & CEO
Wal is a co-founder and President and
CEO of Chrysalix. He is responsible for strategy and operations of
the Chrysalix funds. He actively supports a number of portfolio
companies and holds board positions with HydroPoint, Angstrom Power
(Chairman), and H2Gen Innovations. He was involved with Day4 Energy
which Chrysalix exited at a 3.7x.
Before co-founding Chrysalix, Wal was
VP of Strategic Planning at Westcoast Energy, where he was
responsible for identifying and investing in new energy technologies.
He initiated the sale of Westcoast’s Natural Gas Exchange (NGX) to
OM Gruppen from Sweden for approximately a 4x return. For seven
years prior to Westcoast, Wal was with McKinsey & Company, the
international management consultant. Before McKinsey he worked for
almost ten years in various positions at the Vrije University of
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, during which time he consulted to
business, government, and major international institutions such as
the European Community and the World Bank.
Wal is a part-time adjunct professor
teaching Venture Capital and Entrepreneurial Finance in the MBA
program at the University of British Columbia. He is the founder and
a Director of New Ventures BC, a successful new ventures and business
plan competition, has been on the Advisory Board of the Cleantech
Group LLC for many years and is a founding member of the Alliance of
Cleantech CEOs of British Columbia, Canada. He is also a member of
the Clean Energy Tech Advisory Committee of the BCTIA.
He has written and edited several books
and many scientific articles and is a regular speaker at conferences
all over North America and Europe.
Wal holds a PhD in
Economics from the “Vrije Universiteit”, Amsterdam.
