ASP - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Board Member for Sustainable Chesapeake
- Executive Secretary of the Virginia State Dairymen 's Association
Dale brings extensive experience in production agriculture, commercial real estate, and environmental work, combined with strong community relationships to AgriSunPower's (ASP's) efforts to facilitate solar energy generation in Virginia.
As an Agriculture Conservation Experienced Services Program employee for the USDA's Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), Dale helps NRCS employees provide technical services in support of conservation.
Dale was appointed Executive Secretary of the Virginia State Dairymen's Association where he served for 8 years.
As a current Agriculture Conservation Experienced Services Program employee for the USDA's Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), Dale helps NRCS employees provide technical services in support of conservation.
Dale also serves as a board member for Sustainable Chesapeake, and for the Citizens Advisory Commission for the Chesapeake Bay, a multi-state advisory group.
A recognized thought leader in the renewable energy infrastructure space, Felix combined his extensive corporate experience, passion for renewable energy, and creative entrepreneurial spirit to create AgriSunPower LLC (ASP). He understands that building a sustainable renewable energy infrastructure is becoming an integral part of economic development strategies as technology companies demand access to large quantities of green energy.
Felix's vision for ASP is to connect energy developers, utility companies, electric cooperatives, municipal utilities, state energy agencies, regulators, local public officials, environmental advocates, and other stake holders to facilitate solar energy generation in Virginia.
Felix was President of Gatekeepers LLC, a technology transfer company providing assistance to ISG LLC in developing technology to recycle smelter slag and to increase the productivity of solar cells, when he was asked to serve on the Virginia Governor's Climate Change Commission in 2008. His service on the Power Generation Committee there demonstrates his commitment to service in the tech/clean energy space. Felix currently serves on Virginia's Coal and Energy Commission.
Job Titles:
- Public Relations and Communications
Jay brings extensive experience in engaging diverse stakeholders to identify common goals and pathways to achievable outcomes to AgriSunPower's (ASP's) efforts to facilitate solar energy generation in Virginia.
Through his consulting firm, Common Sense Strategies, Jay provides communications, stakeholder engagement, and government relations counsel for a diverse range of clients, among them the Virginia Business Higher Education Council, Carilion, Concerned Citizens of Southern Virginia, Colonial Downs, Skinquarter, The Pet Food Institute, the American Farm Bureau Federation, and Virginia Tech.
Jay's early career included experience in administration of federal programs for the USDA and development of public policy as a staff member for a US Senator. From there, he spent 20 years in corporate affairs at Altria Group, Inc., first working on the development of a comprehensive state government affairs program, then formulating and integrating the company's community, communications, and government relations strategies in support of the company's broader business objectives. A signature achievement during his tenure was the creation of the Shared Solutions Program, a corporate Agricultural Relations constituency program designed to build partnerships with unrecognized stakeholders based on common interests and needs.
Despite a career that took him away from the family farm in Wythe County where he was raised, Jay remains strongly committed to rural Virginia through public service engagement. He served 5 years as Rector of the Board of Visitors at Radford University and is currently on the Boards of The Council for Rural Virginia, Virginia21, the Virginia Tech Foundation (serving on the Executive Committee), and the Virginia Tech Athletic Fund (currently serving as President).
Jay also answered the call to service from Virginia Tech in the aftermath of the April 16, 2007 shootings - first as a volunteer supporting communications and then accepting a senior leadership role as the Director of The Office of Recovery and Support established to coordinate the University's interaction with injured students and victims' families.
Jay is a graduate of Virginia Tech.