Colorado Harvesting Energy Network Founding Board Members

Wayne Caldwell - Chief Financial Officer for the Monte Vista Cooperative located in Monte Vista, Colorado. The organization has over 5000 active members and serves an area that encompasses the entire San Luis Valley. The products sold include hardware and supplies, farm and light industrial equipment, fertilizer, propane, refined fuels, feed supplies, seed and chemicals. The organization also has two grain terminals, two tire service shops and three convenience stores. Mr. Caldwell is a Colorado native and grew up in the Rocky Ford area. He attended Colorado State University in Fort Collins and has a Master's Degree in Business Administration and a current CPA license. Currently, his organization has plans to install seven 10KW solar voltaic collectors throughout the San Luis Valley on company facilities.
www.mvcoop.com
Email contact: wcaldwell@mvcoop.com

Craig Cox - Executive Director of the Interwest Energy Alliance, a non-profit trade association that represents the nation's leading wind and utility-scale solar energy companies, bringing them together with regional non-governmental organizations. Working in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming, Interwest performs outreach and representational activities and seeks to build collaborative, consensus-based approaches to state policies that lead to new renewable project and transmission development throughout the West.
Contact information:
www.interwest.org
Interwest Energy Alliance
P.O. Box 272 Conifer, Colorado 80433
303-679-9331
Email contact: cox@interwest.org

Mark Glauth - Research Associate for the Sustainable Energy Solutions group at Northern Arizona University, owner of R3, and a Board member of the Teller-Park Conservation District where he works with CACD in renewable energy and resource concerns. R3 Designs and Develops instrumentation. Mark is also involved with his family in the operation of Pinehurst ranch. Mark's education is in Physics & Engineering. He is a former Naval Aviator and grew up in the mountains of Colorado raising cattle. Both of Mark's parents are Colorado Natives.
Email contact: mglauth@gmail.com

Brian Greenman - Principal of Greenman Financial Advisors, LLC which provides financial solutions for wind energy development projects. Our financial advisory service offerings include: project economic feasibility studies strategic planning deal structuring securing co-development partners securing project finance and investors financial oversight during development and construction.
303.204.6850
www.greenmanfinancial.com
Email contact: brian@greenmanfinancial.com

Chris McCall - President of Compass Wind, LLC a community-based wind power developer formed in 2007 to focus on small utility-scale projects. He is a former Senior Vice President of Fortis Bank/Mees Pierson with over 12 years experience in the financial industry. Chris executed over 25 energy financings while at Fortis and Citigroup and was lead banker on two award winning wind farm financings that received "Renewables Deal of the Year" honors in 2002 and 2004. In addition Compass Wind is comprised of legal, development and transaction specialists that have been involved in thousands of megawatts of energy financings, including multiple wind projects. Compass is backed by EBF & Associates, a veteran power development investor and capital provider based in Minnetonka, Minnesota.
www.compasswind.com
Email contact: chris.mccall@compasswind.com
Telephone: 877.753.2259
Cell: 203.918.0561
Fax: 303.957.1515

Brent Orr - Operates a farm in Yuma County near Wray and has worked with neighboring landowners to develop community wind projects. Based on his experience negotiating rights of way and land leases for major wind developers, Brent has formed Cornerstone Transco, an innovative approach to transmission sighting and landowner compensation. He is a founding director of FirstFarm Bank in Greeley and was appointed by Governor Ritter to the Colorado Economic Development Commission.
Email contact: BrentOrr@cox.net
Home Office: 970.332.5000
Mobile/Cell: 970.371.7770
Skype #: 970.372.2273

Advisors

Tony Frank - Director of Renewable Energy Development for Rocky Mountain Farmers Union (RMFU), has been involved with renewable energy projects in Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico's rural communities for over four years. Tony leads renewable energy programs at RMFU to support agriculture producers and rural communities to develop projects for such resources as wind, solar, small-hydro, biofuels, carbon sequestration and energy efficiency technologies. He has recently served on the Colorado Task Force on Renewable Resource Generation Development Areas and is currently serving on the Colorado Renewable Energy Development Infrastructure Advisory Board.Previously, Tony helped launch CHEN while employed at Colorado Working Landscapes. Earlier, he worked at the Colorado Department of Agriculture's Resource Analysis Section from 1995-1998 where he supported the Agricultural Lands Task Force's development of recommendations to preserve agriculture, researched land use policies, and developed a method for measuring the net irrigation requirements for each Colorado county.
Contact:
www.rmfu.org
www.homegrownpower.net
Rocky Mountain Farmers Union Cooperative Development Center
5655 S. Yosemite St., Suite 400
Greenwood Village, CO 80111
303-283-3532
Fax: 303-752-5810
Email contact: tony.frank@co-ops.org

Eric Lane - Since 2006, Eric Lane has served as the director for the Conservation Services Division (CSD) of the Colorado Department of Agriculture. The CSD comprises four programs: Biological Pest Control (Palisade Insectary), Colorado State Conservation Board (conservation districts), Groundwater Protection, and Noxious Weed Management. Working together, these program provide services to all Colorado's landowners, with an emphasis on the stewardship of natural resources on farms and ranches. Eric provides leadership and oversight to these programs and helps to lead Department initiatives related to climate change, carbon sequestration, greening government, and renewable energy. He has an M.S. in Natural Resource Policy from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a B.A. in Biology from Swarthmore College
www.colorado.gov/cs
Director, Conservation Services Division Colorado Department of Agriculture
700 Kipling Street, Suite 4000
Lakewood, CO 80215-8000
303.239.4182
Email contact: eric.lane@ag.state.co.us

Jeff Lyng
Renewable Energy Program Manager
Governor's Energy Office
1580 Logan Street, Suite 100
Denver, CO 80203
303.866.2264
Email Contact: jeff.lyng@state.co.us

Bob Mailander - Born and raised on his family's farm in Eastern Colorado near Holyoke. After finishing college at Regis College with a degree in accounting, Bob served two years with the Peace Corps in Ivory Coast, West Africa. He returned to Colorado and began a farming career in Holyoke raising irrigated wheat, corn and beans. Bob has served on statewide boards of the Ground Water Commission, the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union and the State Land Board. In 1997 he became the Director of the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union Cooperative Development Center. In September 2007, Bob joined the Governor's Energy Office as the Regional Representative for the Eastern Plains and the San Luis Valley. He has many years of experience with community economic development and especially renewable energy development.
www.colorado.gov/energy
Governor's Energy Office
1580 Logan Street, Suite 100
Denver, CO 80203
303.866.2100
Email contact: robert.mailander@state.co.us

Chad McConathy
Office of Economic Development and International Trade
Manager of Communications and External Affairs
1625 Broadway, Suite 2700
Denver, CO 80202
303.892.3840
303.892.3848 Fax
Email contact: chad.mcconathy@state.co.us

Irene Shonle
CSU Extension
County Director - Gilpin County
230 Norton Drive
Black Hawk, Colorado 80422
303.582.9106
303.582.5062 Fax
Email contact: Irene.Shonle@colostate.edu

Staff

John Covert
Executive Director
John has served as the executive director of Colorado Working Landscapes since its inception, and has been the driving force behind the creation of CHEN. John grew up on an Idaho farm where his family's farm produces a variety of seed crops. He has a degree in architecture and graduate work in urban planning. He has been a planner, assistant city manager, lobbyist, consultant, and community activist. Prior to developing a small consulting firm, John was an assistant city manager in Colorado Springs responsible for intergovernmental relations. Most recently, he has worked with agricultural and rural economic development interests promoting sensible land use policies and renewable energy development.
www.harvestenergy.org
Colorado Working Landscapes
5655 South Yosemite Street - Suite 400
Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111
303.283.3524
Email contact: covert@workinglandscapes.com

Rebecca D. Cantwell
Communications Director
Rebecca has served as Communications Director for Colorado Working Landscapes since 2006 and has been involved since then in creating CHEN. . She also re-launched and now edits both Smart Energy Living magazine, a Colorado consumer magazine on energy efficiency and renewable energy, and Home Builder magazine. Rebecca covered most of the state's big stories during 13 years as an award winning reporter and editor at the Rocky Mountain News, including supervising coverage of the construction of Denver International Airport and writing about the rise of the Internet in the 1990s. She went to work at the national magazine Interactive Week, where she was news editor. She later served as political editor for the Denver Post, overseeing city, state and national elections including the 2004 election.. She has degrees from Swarthmore College and Columbia University.
5655 South Yosemite Street - Suite 400
Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111
303.986.7233
Email contact: cantwell@workinglandscapes.com

Chuck Holum - Attorney in private legal practice since 1980, initially in Washington, D.C., and, since 1987, in Denver. He has practiced energy, environmental, utility and nonprofit law. Chuck has been Rocky Mountain Farmers Union's corporate counsel since 1992, working on a wide variety of rural, agricultural and cooperative issues. He has worked for several years with CWL and CHEN, as well as Farmers Union, on renewable energy development projects. He is originally from South Dakota, and attended Yale College and Georgetown Law School.
Email contact: chollum@msn.com
303-316-9416
303-329-8053 - Fax

Jonathan W. Moore - AICP - President of Sustainable Community Solutions, Inc., a consulting business focusing on community-based solutions related to sustainable agriculture, land use, conservation and renewable energy. Prior to starting his own consulting business, Jonathan served as the Director of Land Protection/Operations for Colorado Open Lands, a Statewide, nonprofit 501(C)3, conservation organization (www.coloradoopenlands.org) (10-years). Under his leadership, Jonathan coordinated the organization's land protection programs, including the Community Conservation Program, the Landowner Assistance Program, the Government Assistance Program and the Land Protection Fellowship Program. Jonathan facilitated conservation real estate projects including agricultural and open space easements, 1031 tax-free exchanges, donations, bargain sales, and conservation development projects with private landowners, nonprofit groups, government agencies, and communities. Prior to joining COL, Jonathan worked for over 16 years both publicly and privately on land planning/development projects ranging from large-scale site analysis and master planning, to low density conservation development projects. Jonathan has a Masters in Community and Regional Planning.
SCS, Inc.
Evergreen, CO
jwmoore0@gmail.com
303.324.2346