The Founding
Partner.

A thirty-year operator across construction, journalism, scholarship, and corporate leadership, now applying that methodology, built around scalability, at the head of a transatlantic advisory practice.

Christopher Garner, Founding Partner, Memorable Green Advisory, photographed in Portugal
Christopher Garner · the Algarve, Portugal
Christopher Garner
Founding Partner · Memorable Green Advisory

What happens when you combine the rigor of political philosophy with the relentless pressure of high-ticket sales? A methodology that doesn't just scale revenue, it scales people.

Christopher's career has progressed across construction, journalism, scholarship, and corporate leadership, each chapter built on the foundation of the last. The throughline is operating discipline: the recognition that organizations succeed not through ambition alone, but through the systems that channel ambition into outcomes.

Over 25+ years in and around residential construction, he founded and operated several award-winning design-build firms across New Jersey and Massachusetts, including Breathe Easy Contracting and PRRS / Tub Guru, both recognized nationally for service quality through ServiceMagic and HomeAdvisor.

From 2016 to 2024 he served at Trinity Solar, where he earned six successive promotions in eight years, from District Manager to Corporate Vice President, and was the inaugural recipient of the company's Persistence Award. During that period he drove $670M per year in growth across six consecutive years and organically built a team of more than 500 people. In aggregate, his leadership has generated over $4 billion in total sales.

Christopher founded Memorable Green Advisory to bring this operating methodology to founders and executives across Portugal, the European Union, and the United States, supported by a senior network of partners and specialist advisors across legal, intellectual property, marketing, sales, technology, and corporate counsel disciplines.

The Story

From a paper route
to a practice.

Memorable Green didn't begin with a business plan. It began on a paper route in New Jersey, before dawn, before the third grade.

Christopher was raised by his father, a disabled veteran who lost the ability to work while Christopher was still a boy. By eleven he had won his first sales award, not to be a top performer, but because he was hungry. He ran the route in the mornings, worked kitchens for cash and a meal to carry home, and kept the household running and his father cared for. That childhood taught him what no classroom could: self-reliance, and how to keep showing up when nothing about the situation says you should.

He built the rest himself. His first consulting contract came at sixteen, setting up the home offices of sales reps for the surf brands Reef and Quiksilver. By nineteen he was a published industry editorialist who had taught himself to write software with no formal training, and he put himself through a commuter university on his own dime, working full time, and still earned a scholarship to study philosophy and graduated with honors. Three decades of building followed, from his first companies to a corporate career that drove hundreds of millions in growth and teams in the hundreds.

In 2021, it nearly ended. A sudden and severe illness almost killed him. He kept working from a hospital bed, unknown to most of his team, and that refusal to stop earned Trinity Solar its first-ever Persistence Award. But the year that followed was spent largely fighting to survive, and coming through it changed how he measured everything: he stopped trading his life for the next number, and went looking for one that valued more than money.

So in 2025 he moved his wife and two teenagers to Portugal, with no plan, no family, and no one waiting. Today he lives in the Algarve and runs a growing advisory practice, headquartered in Faro, alongside a Portuguese venture already recognized by Europe's leading startup ecosystem. Everything he builds now rests on what a hungry kid on a paper route learned, tempered by what a hospital bed taught him: do the work, keep your word, and never confuse working yourself to death with building something that lasts.

Career Timeline

Three decades.
One throughline.

2026-Present

Memorable Green Advisory

Founding Partner · Faro

Founded Memorable Green Advisory as a Portugal-based transatlantic consulting practice, a multi-disciplinary network of senior partners and specialist advisors across legal, intellectual property, marketing, sales, technology, and corporate counsel disciplines.

  • Headquartered out of the CRIA Incubator at the University of Algarve (Faro), with a satellite office in Braga
  • Advisory network across Portugal and the United States
  • Parent of the M45 Protocol construction-technology venture

"He encouraged me to double my pricing, and I closed two deals at double price the day after. Today my calendar has 50% more time to work on my business instead of in it."

Rob E. · Founder, AI martech startupClient

"Chris helped me zoom out in a way I really needed, step back, and focus on what actually matters right now. He asks the right questions and simplifies decisions."

Brandon B. · Founder & CEO, digital solar marketplaceClient

2016-24

Trinity Solar

District Manager → Corporate Vice President (2022) · Six promotions in eight years

Joined as District Manager and rose to Corporate Vice President in 2022 across six successive promotions during the company's transformative growth era. During COVID, executed a 350-person layoff and subsequently rebuilt the team to 550+ through recovery, strengthening the operating culture in the process.

  • $670M per year in growth across six consecutive years
  • 500+ person team built organically under direct leadership
  • Inaugural recipient of the Trinity Solar Persistence Award (2023)
  • Corporate VP, Trinity Solar Roofing pilot (2024-25), #1 in company self-generated sales and 200%+ of average ASP

"(Chris) is the man who is responsible for where we are today."

Former CEO · on his exit to private equity

"No one person has contributed more to this organization in my time here than Chris Garner."

Former Senior VP of Sales · national enterprise

Recommendations shared verbally in a professional capacity; identities withheld for privacy.

"Nearly a decade under his mentorship and as a colleague. He has consistently demonstrated exceptional integrity, transparency, and foresight, often addressing challenges before they surface."

Patrick K. · District Manager, roofing & solarFormer direct report

"One of the most charismatic, positive, and genuinely supportive professionals I have met. His energy is contagious, and his generosity as a mentor stands out. Any team would be lucky to have his leadership."

Matt G. · Customer-experience leader, home servicesFormer teammate

2013-16

Founder Era · Massachusetts & New Jersey

Multiple ventures · Construction, solar, sales infrastructure

A run of founder roles bridging hands-on residential construction with the early years of the US residential solar industry.

  • PRRS / Tub Guru, ~$1M revenue, franchise pilot, HomeAdvisor award
  • Launched Dow Powerhouse solar shingles in Massachusetts for Green Line Solar
  • Co-founded Winning Sales Solutions

"Within days, he was opening new markets and hitting revenue targets that were astronomical. A tireless, results-driven professional who can energize your sales team and find new ways of driving demand."

Jeff R. · Business owner & authorClient

"He exceeded my expectations. Well-spoken, intelligent, and a leader any company would want."

Ken W. · Retired GM, automotive partsDid business together

2003-10

Breathe Easy Contracting

Founder · Residential design-build, New Jersey

Founded and operated Breathe Easy Contracting, a residential design-build firm in New Jersey that reached approximately $2M in annual revenue. ServiceMagic award recipient. During the same period, delivered the largest Sunday River Skiway event in 50 years in his second week with the program (2010).

"A master communicator, driven, transformative leader who would be an asset to any organization."

Wayne S. · Regional sales rep, building productsFormer direct report

Earlier

Journalism & Scholarship

UMass Boston · Cato Institute · Institute for Humane Studies, Georgetown

Cum Laude graduate of UMass Boston. Two-time Reporter of the Year at The Mass Media. Cato Institute scholarship to the Institute for Humane Studies at Georgetown. Recipient of the Student Presidential Leadership Award.

"One of the most insightful and genuine people I know. He combines hard work and strategic thinking with a unique ability to understand people deeply, and identifies opportunities where others see challenges."

Karim S. · Founder, human-development consultancy20-year peer

Recognition

A record of firsts.

2023
Trinity Solar Persistence Award

Inaugural recipient. Awarded as Corporate Vice President across six successive promotions.

2016-24
Trinity Solar Growth Era

Drove $670M per year in growth across six consecutive years and organically built a 500+ person team.

2003-14
Award-Winning Design-Build Firms

Founder of Breathe Easy Contracting and PRRS / Tub Guru, recipients of ServiceMagic and HomeAdvisor recognition for service quality.

UMass
Student Presidential Leadership Award

Awarded by the University of Massachusetts Boston for exemplary student leadership and service to the institution.

UMass
Reporter of the Year · Two-Time Recipient

Awarded twice for journalism at The Mass Media, the independent student newspaper of UMass Boston.

UMass
Cato Institute Scholarship

Awarded a scholarship to the Institute for Humane Studies at Georgetown, political philosophy, ethics, and law.

UMass
Cum Laude Graduate

Bachelor of Arts, awarded with academic honors from the University of Massachusetts Boston.

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