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Leadership & team

Our clients are change makers, they deserve to have a group of individuals who understand what it takes to make things happen.

Ecofusion's leadership team and consultants provide a mix of experience coming from award winning and nationally recognized non-profits, campaigns, and social enterprise and for profit cause related efforts.

chace warmington | managing principal
email: Chace [at] ecofusion.com

Chace Warmington is the Managing Principal and co-founder of Ecofusion. He is also Managing Principal and co-founder of emPivot.com, the Online Network for Green Video. Chace has over ten years of experience developing internal and external strategic communications related to community development, renewable energy, and sustainability projects.

Chace’s experience is founded upon working intimately with clients in order to meet their communications needs. He has led multi-interest stakeholder outreach efforts, developed media for national and international entities and he managed development teams to create highly interactive web sites and tools for environmentally-related business and campaigns.
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halle czechowski | pr associate

Halle Czechowski has nearly two decades of experience in communications and advocacy. She brings to the work a passion for environmental issues and a commitment to social justice. She is skilled at developing communications strategies, messages, and vehicles that articulate an initiative’s mission and connect and empower citizen-advocates to speak out effectively.

Her work experience includes Capitol Hill, the Federal government, non-profits, and political campaigns. She has for a broad array of causes and organizations, including Voices for America’s Children, Clean Tech for Obama, ReCharge America, People for the American Way, The Hoop Dreams Scholarship Fund, Southeast Tourism Society, American Association of University Women and the Open Society Justice Initiative.

Halle earned a B.A. in Social and Public Policy at Georgetown University.

browen kennedy | creative associate

Bronwen Kennedy is the Principal/Owner of Spring13. With over a decade of agency experience as an award winning Creative Director, Bronwen has been the Creative Lead on national, multi-channel campaigns and multi-million dollar new business pitches. She has directed creative teams from Concept through Production in all media including over 25 original TV commercials for clients such as Time Warner Cable, Weight Watchers and Blue Cross Blue Shield.

Bronwen works with her clients in a variety of roles. She has worked providing concepts for a variety of things including websites, videos and branding where clients produce the ideas themselves, she has managed client's in-house creative teams- providing leadership, helping with staffing issues and client relationships, and she works with her own creative partners to deliver fully executed projects. Recent Spring13 clients include National Geographic, EFX Media, Madison Design Group, CYVIZ, Procure and others.

With extensive experience, and connections, working in all media channels- TV, Video, Print, Interactive, Mail, and Collateral, Bronwen brings to the table expert thinking tailored to clients' individual needs.

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daniel wagner | leed associate

Danielle Miller Wagner, Principal of Local 2 Global Solutions, provides services to government agencies, trade associations, and non-profit clients seeking to promote environmental sustainability, energy efficiency and conservation, and economic growth with a focus on maximizing organizations’ growth through American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding opportunities.

A Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Accredited Professional (AP), Danielle has 16 years of experience helping local governments, real estate developers, non-profits, and federal agencies develop new initiatives, manage programs, cultivate financial support, and facilitate relationships.

Prior to launching her consulting practice in January 2009, Danielle served as Vice President of a specialty real estate company focusing on the redevelopment of environmentally impaired properties (Brownfields) where she built a nationwide sourcing network and created new models for tapping the municipal Brownfield market. Previously, Danielle managed environmental and economic development programs for the International City/County Management Association (ICMA). In this capacity, she led an association-wide sustainability initiative, local government energy efficiency programs, as well as Smart Growth and Brownfield initiatives for local governments.

Danielle also worked for a government contractor and provided technical and strategic support to the US Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Navy, with a focus on land use controls, Superfund liability, and Brownfield cleanup and reuse. Early in her career, Danielle spent a year with a non-governmental organization facilitating cooperative scientific endeavors between Israeli and Palestinian scientists. Danielle launched her career during the first Clinton Administration in Vice President Gore’s GLOBE Program.

Danielle earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Michigan, School of Natural Resources and Environment, and a Master of Science in Environmental Policy from Johns Hopkins.

david schneider | video production

David, the principal of 202 Films, is an associate of the Ecofusion team and is a former Producer/Editor at Discovery Communications and a Sound Editor at National Geographic Television. As the principal of 202 Films, Mr. Schneider has been the Associate Producer on a documentary called The Price of Freedom, based on the story of Jewish-American prisoners of war during WWII. He has since worked on a multitude of films and TV shows, including an array of Discovery, Home and Garden and TruTV shows. His recently completed Discovery Channel film, China’s Mega Dam, received 100% higher ratings than regular Discovery Channel programming, over a series of three showings.

Over the past six years Dave Schneider has edited political advertisements for the U.S. Senate, Congress, House of Representatives, along with an array of initiative advertisements.

Schneider has over 14 years of experience in the film industry and has edited close to 100 hours of internationally broadcast programming. Schneider won two Pollie’s and was nominated for 2 Emmy awards. He recently finished a collaborative project with Nick Clooney and Walter Cronkite for the AmericanLife Network. He is currently working on the third season of Indoors Out for the DIY network.

catherine bise | marketing associate

Catherine brings 15 years of marketing experience in consumer and business-to-business marketing to the Ecofusion team. She helped build the famous For Dummies series into bestselling brand and was the Sr. Product Marketing Mgr for Excite's BluemountainArts.com and WebShots.com.

Additionally Catherine has negotiated PR partnerships with NHL, Sunkist, Angel EMI, 1-800 Flowers, Martha Stewart, Mac Cosmetics, Saucony, Nascar and more. Catherine built the DC area floral import business for Metz, one of the biggest Dutch floral exporters. Currently she is a marketing consultant working with several regional clients in the areas of entertainment and tourism.

Catherine received a B.A. in English from Bates College in Maine.

moses mccall | web associate

Moses currently works with Ecofusion to coordinate the development of the emPivot.com web environment and the emPivot online community. Moses has a background in the engineering and computer science field. Prior to setting off on his own as a consultant Moses worked at NASA Godard Space Center and Sun Microsystems. Moses is a filmmaker, blogger, and technology developer and has played an important role in Paint The District Green and NextDC, among a variety of other projects.

annie schwendinger | design associate

Annie Schwendinger, Smartt Art owner and graphic designer graduated from Wheaton College outside of Boston, Massachusetts with a major in Art History and a minor in Studio Art.

While living in Boston after graduation, she enrolled and completed a two and a half year certificate program in Graphic Design from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Upon completion of the program, she relocated to Washington, D.C. and started her freelance graphic design company, Smartt Art.

Until recently, Annie worked full-time as a graphic designer for the marketing departments of WorldCom Wireless(telecom) and Jones Lang LaSalle(real estate development). Both companies allowed her to build her portfolio and create strong visual collateral for her clients in both the print and web industry.

Annie has made Smartt Art home since it’s opening in 2002 and enjoys working with many different clients in the DC area and nationwide.

shelly morris | intern

Shelly comes to Ecofusion with the experience in the areas of marketing, communication, and business planning. In a constantly shifting and highly competitive automotive industry, Shelly has valuable experience in a host of areas such as product development, market analysis, and strategic planning. Her previous employers include Metropolitan Eye Specialists, The Hoop Dreams Scholarship Fund and American Specialty Cars, Inc. With the Hoop Dreams Scholarship Fund, Shelly was charged with maintaining consistent messaging in all communications materials and maximizing the exposure of Hoop Dreams, while building bridges between our communities, corporate and media partners, and sponsors.

In the fall of 2010, I will be entering the Fuqua School of Business to pursue an MBA with a concentration in marketing and strategy. Shelly currently holds a Master of Arts in Engineering Management from George Washington University and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina A&T State University.

khalid ali | business strategy advisor

Khalid Ali focuses on corporate strategy development and has extensive experience in strategic growth initiatives, M&A, market analysis, corporate restructuring and organizational design. Khalid has consulted to companies of varying sizes, from start-ups to global, Fortune 500 companies and has advised on various strategic, financial, operational and organizational issues.

Khalid's recent strategic advisory work includes investment due diligence for a mid-atlantic venture capital firm, growth strategy development for an energy start-up, and corporate restructuring advisory for a $5bn technology company.

Previously, Khalid worked at Towers Perrin, a global management consulting firm, where he focused on various strategic initiatives including M&A, corporate restructuring, change management and organizational design and research.

Khalid's other experiences include working at Qorvis Communications, a marketing and brand consultancy, where he executed various research engagements on strategic issues for executives looking to drive corporate growth, as well as an Investment Banking Intern at Deutsche Bank, where he focused on corporate finance/M&A due diligence and financial modeling. Khalid also interned at a small-cap venture capital firm where he reviewed business plans and analyzed industries and companies for investment.

Khalid graduated from the University of Maryland with a B.S. in Economics and served as the President of the UMD Entrepreneurship Club, where he assisted student entrepreneurs in connecting with other successful entrepreneurs, local bankers and venture capitalists.

Currently, Khalid sits on the Working Group committee of OPEN DC (Organization of Pakistani Entrepreneurs - Washington, DC) and the Programming Committee of ACG (Association for Corporate Growth - Maryland).