The glamping company’s chief brand officer talks evolution and expansion
Words by: Stacy Shoemaker Rauen + Will Speros • Photos by Madison Kotack + courtesy of AutoCamp
In less than a decade, AutoCamp has established itself as a hospitality juggernaut, taking glamping to new heights. Much of the experiential hospitality company’s rapid expansion can be credited to chief brand officer Ryan Miller. He met AutoCamp CEO Neil Dipaola (who is also founder of Mesa Lane Partners, a fully integrated real estate investment, development, management, and hospitality company) after his friend forwarded him a posting for a marketing and social media position for Dipaola’s LEED-certified student housing development called the Loop at UC Santa Barbara. (With Miller’s help, the property sold out before it opened in 2012.) It was the impetus for their future partnership in many ways. “There were so many parallels with that project and AutoCamp, especially in the early days,” Miller