Will Payne Email & Phone Number

Will Payne is Managing Partner of Coalfield Strategies, driving new business investment in energy communities throughout southwestern Virginia. Over the last five years, his work has resulted in several hundred new jobs with technology, manufacturing and energy companies. As a co-founder of Energy DELTA Lab, he is managing a portfolio of large-scale clean energy generation and demand projects as part of a 65,000-acre development targeting over a gigawatt of activity on reclaimed coal mined properties. He previously spent two decades developing bipartisan coalitions for over a dozen Virginia political candidates on both sides of the aisle, primarily governors and U.S. senators.Will is also co-founder of Squabble State Hard Cider & Spirits near downtown Bristol, VA, a destination hard cidery, distillery and apple orchard offering sweeping mountain views of Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee.Will serves on the William & Mary Foundation's Board of Trustees and is Chair of the William & Mary Real Estate Foundation Board of Directors. He previously served as Vice Rector of William & Mary’s Board of Visitors for two terms, chairing its Administration, Buildings and Grounds Committee. Will also serves on the GO Virginia Region One Council as a member of the UVA Darden School Foundation Board of Trustees. Will earned a Global Executive MBA from the UVA Darden School of Business and a BA in Public Policy from William & Mary. He is the author of Mark Warner the Dealmaker: From Business Success to the Business of Governing, a biography of former governor of Virginia and U.S. Senator Mark Warner, detailing lessons in leadership at the intersection of business and politics.

Listed skills include Development, Crisis Communications, Grassroots Organizing, Public Speaking, and 44 others.

• Co-Founder

  Wild Side Orchard

  Bristol, Va, Us