Todd Spire has been an entrepreneur in the Hudson Valley for over 20 years. He has conceived and managed creative development and marketing initiatives in nearly every media channel as both a creative and a director. Todd’s resume of over 100 projects encompasses all business sectors and sizes, from grass-roots to national, state and local non-profit organizations, globally distributed brands and international hospitality clients.
A resident of the Catskill Mountains since 2008, Todd has served on the board of directors of Trout Unlimited where he advocates and helps to protect the cold water fisheries of the Eastern Catskills, and John Burroughs Woodchuck Lodge. He has been a columnist for the Poughkeepsie Journal advocating for science-based stream management solutions during post-Irene recovery and clean-up efforts in the Catskills and Adirondacks. Todd is also the founder of Esopus Creel, a fly fishing company located in Phoenicia, New York. Esopus Creel is one of founding partners of I Love New York grant awardee “Catskill Trout Tales,” a localized marketing initiative which promotes fly fishing activities Catskills-wide.
A volunteer to organizations in need, he has served as a volunteer shelter monitor for Coalition for the Homeless. In 2003, he founded a fine and commercial arts complex in Beacon, New York which continues to offer gallery space as a free venue for arts programming to individual artists and arts groups. He has also served as the Executive Director of Pine Hill Community Center.