Chip Comins, Founder, Producer and Executive Director of AREDAY- American Renewable Energy Day - and Managing Director of American Spirit Productions, a green film and event production company located in Aspen, CO.

Comins produced the Public Service Announcement “Native Wind Powering America” that debuted at the Clinton Global Initiative, an official selection of numerous environmental film festivals including Mountainfilm in Telluride, and broadcast nationally on Link TV. He is currently producing "Native Wind" a one-hour documentary with Intertribal COUP and The Sierra Club.

A long-time advocate of developing and implementing renewable energy resources to abate GHG and climate change, Comins is trained by Al Gore to present The Climate Project slide show and is now producing the 6th Annual AREDAY 09 – The Problem IS The Solution: Wall St. Meets Green St. Creating The New Energy Economy.

Chip Comins
Founder, Producer & Executive Director

email: ccomins@rof.net
phone: 970-948-9929

Sally Ranney, CEO of Stillwater Preservation, LLC., a wetlands mitigation banking company, and an Al Gore ‘Climate Project’ trainee is dedicated to preserving genetic archives of the planet. With 30 years experience in land - water - energy policy, she has worked in the U.S., South America, Africa, Canada and Papua New Guinea.

Appointed by President Reagan to the Commission on Americans Outdoors and former Senator Tim Wirth to the Harvard School of Government’s Project 88, Ranney was also instrumental in designing AmeriCorps for Clinton-Gore. A former Resource Policy Analyst for The Wilderness Society, she worked closely with Pres. Carter protecting millions of acres in Alaska and the western U.S. She established Corridors of Life (1992), the first large, comprehensive GIS programs undertaken by an NGO in the U.S., and co-founded American Wildlands.

She is the recipient of the RK Mellon Fellowship/Yale University, the IWF Meritorious Conservation Award, and the US Park Service Horace Albright Award. She’s a founding board member of Project Lighthawk & the Grand Canyon Trust; served on the Board of The Natural Step.

Susan Espinoza, President of Carve Marketing, a boutique consulting firm, is focused on branding, integrated marketing & communications, and product launch strategy and execution. Espinoza has held a variety of senior marketing positions in both Fortune 500 and start-up companies and worked in the US and across South America and Europe.

Previous to starting Carve Marketing, Espinoza held a variety of roles at Dell Inc in the Consumer Marketing Group, including launching XPS, the first ever premium brand of desktops and notebooks, managing the notebook business in US and leading Marketing for Dell Retail across over 140 US locations. Previous to Dell, Espinoza was Marketing Director at Nexagent, a communications company based in UK and was founding member of Escape Velocity, a wireless software company. Espinoza spent five years as a consultant for Accenture in Argentina and across Europe.

Espinoza has her BA from Duke University, where she focused on Sustainable Development and worked for The Nature Conservancy. Espinoza has her MBA from Rice University.

Jackie Francis Tyler, small business owner and event organizer, was raised in Aspen, Colorado and has been working for AREDAY since its inception.  Her interest in environmental advocacy began while working for wildlife filmmaker Marty Stouffer on the Wild America series, and led to creating local environmental events including an educational series, Actions Speak Louder, and Aspen’s EarthDay Celebration.

Laura Romeo - Corporate Relations - AREDAY Third generational resident of Chicago, avid outdoors enthusiast and volunteer for numerous environmental and conservation projects, led by Father George Sawicki, including National Clean Streams Committee and Alexander Stillman Foundation. Academic Background in Finance and Computer Science from University of Notre Dame and spent over 25 years in health care, real estate and digital business library business ventures.

Extensive contacts with Fortune 500 companies, CME Exchange, Wall Street leaders, and educational business film libraries provide a tremendous landscape of opportunities for corporate sponsors and notable guest speakers to add to AREDAY's educational symposium. The overall mission of Corporate Relations is to help bring AREDAY nationwide, and hosted as an annual event in every state to help bring renewable energy into the mainstream.