Business View Magazine | July 2022

27 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 7 EAGLE POINT SOLAR company just as the pandemic was wreaking havoc on the world, Pullen says, “We could talk for days over the reasons why you don’t want to do what we did, but the good news is the foundation was built.” When Pullen joined Eagle Point Solar as a sales representative in 2013, they had a dozen people on the team and were completing eight to ten projects a year while servicing Iowa, Wisconsin, and Illinois. The majority of their business at that time was focused on the Dubuque area, which is why their headquarters is located there today. The company was founded in 2010 by a retired healthcare executive who was passionate about sustainability. He was intrigued about what solar could do, not only from an economic standpoint, but also for the environment. Pullen says his first year with the company, they sold about 30 projects and “we really then started on the growth spurt. We were doubling the number of projects we were working on every year. So in 2020, we were on track to do about 500 projects, meaning we would sell 500, we would install 500.” That is when the founder of the organization decided it was time for him to retire. As states began to shut down in March 2020 to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, four of the Eagle Point Solar executives bought out the founder of the company. Pullen became the new President & CEO in April 2020. He reports, “COVID-19 has had an effect on everybody, but it had an interesting effect on us. When Jim Pullen - Eagle Point Solar President/CEO