 Executive Director
Tony Frank
The CRES Board of Directors selected Tony Frank
from more than 80 applicants in March 2010.
Tony brings
extensive experience in renewable energy policy to CRES and has
been involved in projects in Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico
since 2004. Prior to joining CRES, he was Manager of Development
for Compass Wind, and Director of Renewable Energy Development for
Rocky Mountain Farmers Union (RMFU). At RMFU, he led renewable
energy programs to support agriculture producers develop projects
for such resources as wind, solar, small-hydro, biofuels, carbon
sequestration and energy efficiency technologies. He recently
served on the Colorado Task Force on Renewable Resource Generation
Development Areas.
Frank has also worked for
Colorado Working Landscapes (where he established a rural network
for renewable energy called the Harvesting Energy Network); Rocky
Mountain Communities (where he established community technology
centers serving affordable housing communities); and the Colorado
Department of Agriculture.
Frank earned a Bachelor of Arts
degree in Political Science from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie,
N.Y. and a Master of Public Administration from the University of
Colorado's Graduate School of Public Affairs. He is a
third-generation Coloradan from Denver with family roots in the
mining towns of Telluride and Leadville.
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 Office
Manager
Lorrie McAllister
Lorrie McAllister
joined the CRES staff as Office Manager in June, 2011.
McAllister brings extensive
experience in nonprofit organization management, corporate
operations, entrepreneurial marketing, and residential and
commercial energy efficiency and renewable energy to CRES.
Prior to joining CRES, she
owned an energy program management consulting practice, where one
of the projects she worked on was program development for the
Governor’s Energy Office High Performance Buildings Program.
McAllister has also worked for Xcel Energy, managing demand
management and renewable products and services offered to large
commercial customers as well as residential consumers. In
addition, she was a program manager for the residential low-income
weatherization program at the Colorado Governor’s Office of Energy
Conservation, where she initiated many of the program
improvements, such as a heating system tune-up, that are still in
practice today.
McAllister earned a Bachelor
of Arts degree in Psychology from University of North
Carolina-Wilmington. She earned a Master of Regional Planning
degree from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill,
specializing in environmental planning, sustainability, energy
efficiency, and resource conservation.
In her spare time, Lorrie
enjoys nature photography, hiking, skiing and training her dogs.
Lorrie lives with her husband John and their two sons, as well as
a menagerie of pets.
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 Membership
Director
Pat Grossman
You usually see Pat at most registration
tables for CRES events. But she has been Membership Chair for CRES
since 2002, chair of the Tour of Solar Homes for several years and
part of the Conference Committee for the last 5 years. Work with
CRES began as a volunteer and progressed after retirement from the
industrial water treatment field. As a graduate of Colorado State
University in Microbiology, early work was in the laboratory. This
lead to an interest in the solar technology in the early 1970's
with a Jimmy Carter inspired solar hot water system.
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paid staff of the Colorado Renewable Energy Society (CRES) works
part-time and includes an Executive Director, an Operations Director,
and a Membership Director. The staff works closely with, and provides
professional support to, CRES officers, board of directors, and
committees
