Craig Eicher Email & Phone Number

United States

• Direct the management, administration, implementation of contracts for Xcel Energy's wholesale electric business. Responsible for developing and implementing strategy to retain and acquire customers, including.
• Originate, lead and direct interdisciplinary teams to provide and implement customized energy solutions to wholesale customers as the resource mix and regulatory initiatives evolve in Colorado and the company.
• Develop, coordinate, and provide direction for long-term proposals and resulting transactions for existing and prospective customers
• Collaborate with multiple internal groups to draft Federal Energy Regulatory Commission filings and to comply with FERC rules
• Initiate, develop, and maintain relationships with other utilities, suppliers, power marketers, and other companies. Identify and analyze customers and competitors’ strategies, needs and plans to create and develop.

Denver, Colorado, United States

• Cultivated and maintained effective working relationships with local governments, communities and economic development organizations
• Organized and managed cross-functional teams of internal colleagues to propel company’s business goals: negotiated and maintained gas and electric franchises, drove major construction projects to completion, siting and.
• Proactively engaged key stakeholders, including political leaders, city and county staff, community and business leaders, and key government boards, for the purpose of building strategic relationships that furthered.
• Maintained a comprehensive understanding of local issues and provide a single point-of-contact between local governments and company
• Assisted various company business units in forging strategic external relationships with decision-makers to drive major infrastructure projects to completion (e.g. transmission lines, substations, high-pressure gas.
• Served as critical liaison between company and key stakeholders during natural disasters

Denver, Colorado, United States

• Provided issues and crisis management, public affairs, project management and strategic planning services to private clients in multiple market segments
• Developed proactive policy positions, internal and external communications and change management campaigns
• Developed and executed national B-2-B marketing and communications programs
• Public relations, integrated marketing, targeted media relations
• Clients in manufacturing, outsourcing, industrial, commercial insulations, automotive, managed services, IT outsourcing, technology, non-profit, product engineering and development/aerospace, interactive marketing

Maitland, Florida, United States

• Strategic integrated communications planning and tactical management in support of Energy Deliver business group
• Managed message development and communications
• Strategic consultant to executive leadership: negotiating, editorial boards
• Strategic planning for Public Policy Group: political grass roots organizing, opinion poll development, negotiation strategy, project/budget management
• Communications campaigns for substation/transmission line siting, bargaining unit negotiations, regulatory, Superfund site, safety, diversity and accidents
• Media relations – company spokesperson

Orlando, Florida, United States

• Developed community involvement program for Darden Restaurants, America's leading family dining corporation (Red Lobster, Olive Garden), headquartered in Orlando
• Managed communication support to Darden leadership and Corporate PR, generating positive public and media relations for local community outreach events
• News media advisor for special events and future strategies

Orlando, Florida, United States

• News anchor and reporter for CBS television affiliate in nation’s 19th-ranked DMA
• Developed, managed, and executed news and information projects at all levels of production
• Managed teams of producers, photographers, graphics artists, editors, and technicians on special projects
• Extensive news reporting on government, politics, the U.S. space program, local courts and economics
• Won awards and recognition as first American journalist to report from inside Russia's Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City after the Cold War
• 2 Emmy Award nominations for International News and Feature Writing. 2 Central Florida Press Club Awards for News Reporting and News Writing. Associated Press Award for News Reporting