CANDIDATE FOR AIPG NATIONAL VICE PRESIDENT
Candidate for AIPG National
Vice President
Matthew J. Rhoades, CPG-7837 Socorro, New Mexico
I am very thankful and grateful for the nomination to the office of National Vice President for 2017. I have been a CPG for 25+ years and I am very thankful for all of the positive, helpful relation- ships that I have developed through the AIPG. Those who know me know that I am a networking animal and the AIPG has been a natural conduit for forming great relationships across the coun- try. Historically, I was very fortunate to have ‘grown-up’ in the very active Colorado Section. With something like four-hundred members and something happening no less than once a month, my AIPG membership has afforded me the opportunity to get to know geologists from all walks of life and with interests as diverse as humanly possible. After 30+ years of professional practice, I would like to leverage my skillset as a new Vice President in the following three areas:
First, help the National Executive Committee and Advisory board (along with the new Executive Director) devel- op and implement a sustainable pro- gram for attracting and retaining new members for the long-term. For this discussion, new members are defined as mid-career geologists with 10-20 years of experience, as well as new professionals transitioning from academia.
Second, I would like to liaise between the various State and regional Sections and the National HQ to communicate winning ideas and innovations to help sections emulate the successes expe- rienced by other sections across the country. Ideas in advertising revenue, workshop participation, inroads into academia and alternate sources of rev- enue are representative areas where
actionable measures could yield great, near-term results.
Third, I would very much like to sup- port the President and the Executive Committee in developing new, alternate sources of revenue for AIPG-inspired ideas that are perhaps not mainstream, but that might produce positive member interest and growing member support.
The three areas mentioned above are all designed to address aspects of an ongoing dilemma that AIPG has been facing for more than a decade. Who are we? How do we communicate our value proposition to the professional geologic community? How do we compete against other, similar messages – in effect, differ- entiate ourselves? What is the message to be communicated and most impor- tantly, perhaps, how do we communicate it? These questions come up time and again at various AIPG meetings and the time is upon us to start delivering actionable, programmatic answers to the questions. We all know that com- modity prices are in the cellar and that oil and gas prospects are experiencing strong headwinds. The time is upon us to really deliver tangible assistance to the geologic community and in the process, grow a robust AIPG membership that will withstand the economic vagaries that we will surely encounter again in the next economic cycle. The answers and actions will not be simple, or they would already be working. I would like to contribute in a substantive, meaningful way to growing AIPG so that the ques- tions posed above do not become more existential as we come limping out of this economic recovery. Thank you.
AIPG Annual Conference Hotel Information
Drury Plaza Hotel 828 Paseo De Peralta Santa Fe, NM 87501
(800) 325-0720 or
(505) 982-0571
$139++ per night To get the Room Block price use
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*All field trips begin and end at the Drury Plaza Hotel.
Breakfast is
complimentary for hotel guests. If not staying at the Drury, cost for the breakfast buffet is $6.99+tax.
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