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DIRECTOR, INVESTSWVA; MANAGING PARTNER, COALFIELD STRATEGIES, BRISTOL
DIRECTOR, INVESTSWVA; MANAGING PARTNER, COALFIELD STRATEGIES, BRISTOL
Virginia Business// August 29, 2024//
Payne and his team helped secure a 65,000-acre development deal in Southwest Virginia, announced in November 2023, with Fortune 100 energy company Energy Transfer as part of the Energy DELTA Lab initiative. His team is leading a 10-year strategy, developing the land with projects that could generate 1 gigawatt of power. The deal also includes converting a 400-acre previously mined property into a multitenant data center site.
Payne spent two decades in politics, helping candidates on both sides of the aisle, before working in economic development.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in public policy at William & Mary and an executive MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. He serves on the Darden foundation’s board of trustees and chairs the William & Mary Real Estate Foundation.
INTERESTING PLACE I’VE TRAVELED: Walking on the beach in St. Andrews, Scotland
WHAT PEOPLE WOULD BE SURPRISED TO LEARN ABOUT ME: I’ve been learning to play the electric bass guitar with the help of Fender’s app so that one day I can be good enough to play in either an ’80s hair metal or ’90s grunge cover band.
