Chris has founded, built, and successfully sold multiple finance businesses including in insurance, reinsurance, specialty lending, and tax-credit financing. He is the founder and principal of Buskirk Capital, a family investment firm which led to the formation of 1789 Capital where he is co-founder and Chief Investment Officer. For over 15 years he has been a successful investor in growth stages companies with particular interest and experience in financial services, DeFi/Crypto, defense tech, reindustrialization and media.

He is also the co-founder with Vice President-Elect JD Vance of The Rockbridge Network, an organization of leading founders, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, investors, and families working together to build new institutions that will increase American security and prosperity and inaugurate the next American Golden Age. He is an author and frequent speaker having written for The New York Times, the Washington Post, and others and speaking in variety of formats ranging from The Aspen Ideas Festival to a lecture in Brasilia to the Brazilian Foreign Service.

He is a graduate of Claremont-McKenna College, an avid outdoorsman, and sought out speaker. He is the author of “American & The Art of the Possible: Restoring National Vitality In An Age of Decay” (Encounter Books: 2023), a book that describes the problems undermining American prosperity and, more important, describing some ideas about how to restore American growth and sustainable, broadly shared affluence.