Staff

President

Susan Greene

Susan Greene joined ASES as President in September 2011. She brings to the job a long record of accomplishment in the nonprofit, private and government sectors. Most recently, she was senior vice president at The Cable Center, located on the University of Denver campus, where she created and expanded The Center’s informational, educational and professional development programs for the cable industry, university students and faculty and the public. She recently completed her term as president of Women in Sustainable Energy (WISE), where she led the growth of this professional educational and networking organization, establishing its 501(c) (3) status, creating regularly scheduled educational and networking programs and recruiting corporate sponsors.

Previously Greene held executive positions in New York and Washington DC, at NBC, HBO, Citigroup and Time Warner Cable, where she built new businesses at the intersection of content and technology. Among her accomplishments are, the creation of early ecommerce mobile and web applications,  the creation and launch of CNBC, the prototype of the Metropolitan Opera live HD broadcasts, which won two EMMY awards and the creation of Sesame Street.

Early in her career, Greene represented municipal and public interests at the Federal Communications Commission during the creation of new federal policy enabling cable television to grow into urban areas throughout the US. Later Greene joined the FCC and ran a major regulatory proceeding that set the framework for requiring television stations to run educational and informational programming for children.

Greene was educated at Smith College, The Annenberg School of Communications at The University of Pennsylvania and Columbus School of Law, Catholic University.

She sees many parallels between the 30 year maturation cycle of the cable and new media business and the renewable energy sector.

She has three adult children of whom she is very proud and spends free time skiing, biking and travelling.

General Operating

Carolyn BeachCarolyn Beach

Member Services Manager
Carolyn has been with ASES since July 2002. As member services manager, she develops and manages the ASES membership data base including data entry, producing and mailing renewal notices, producing monthly and annual membership reports, and acting as membership liaison.

Carolyn is also responsible for the production of the Sunbeam e-newsletter and is a member of the ASES Membership Committee. Prior to joining ASES, she spent 14 years in the marketing department at Micro Motion and four years with the California State Psychological Association.

Ariel Braude

Community Manager

Ariel joined ASES in June 2012. Her role includes creating and curating content on the ASES website, sharing the message of solar through social media, and managing the Solar Tour.  Ariel also facilitates ASES’ internal community on The Grid, serves as the Webmaster of the ASES website, and assists in fundraising and marketing efforts.   A recent grad of the University of Colorado-Boulder with a degree in Environmental Studies and Geology, Ariel is passionate about renewable energy and sustainability.  She is originally from Chicago and currently resides in Boulder. She spends her free time hiking, going to yoga and  snowboarding.

SOLAR TODAY Magazine

Gina JohnsonGina Johnson

Editor/Associate Publisher
Gina joined the staff as the editor of SOLAR TODAY magazine in January 2004. The recipient of several reporting and editing awards, she is the creator and former editor-and-chief of Energy Customer Management magazine. Gina has been an editor and reporter for business and technical magazines including Public Utilities Fortnightly, USGlass and Measurements and Control. Over the years, she has served as an industry expert in her fields of reporting, invited to speak publicly and judge industry competitions. She completed a master’s degree in editing and professional writing in May 2006.

When she’s not discussing editorial ideas with readers and authors, Gina loves to hike with her husband and their dog, Stella; travel; and read and write. She resides in Atlanta, Georgia.

Seth MasiaSeth Masia

Editor/Director of Communications
Seth joined the staff of SOLAR TODAY in November 2007 after earning a master’s degree in environmental journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He studied English as an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, where he worked as a technical editor on physics and chemistry texts. Seth was technical editor of Ski magazine for 20 years. The work took him around the world to ski, and everywhere he went he saw glaciers retreating – so he began writing about climate change in 1991. Seth has written for Backpacker,Outside, The New York Times and dozens of other magazines, newspapers and websites. Beginning in 1994, he has helped to launch large website projects for Times Mirror magazines, Microsoft Corp., AOL Time Warner and a number of small non-profit organizations.

Seth is the author of half a dozen books on mountain sports, and has won several awards for his writing and website innovations. Seth lives in Boulder with a rotating cast of pets. He does do-it-yourself solar energy projects and rides an electric motorcycle he built around a golf-cart motor. He picks banjo and flies a Piper Comanche, but his first love is skiing. A fully certified instructor, he has taught at Squaw Valley and puts in holidays at the Vail Ski School.