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 John
Englander
John Englander was appointed Chief Executive Officer
of the International SeaKeepers Society in 2004,
bringing diverse experience both as a successful
entrepreneur and with non-profit marine environmental
organizations. Under Englander’s leadership
SeaKeepers has established independent offices,
created its own calibration laboratory, forged
new links with the scientific and government communities,
and strengthened fundraising.
Virtually all of Englander’s experience relates to the ocean in one form
or another. For many years he was a recognized leader in the recreational diving
industry. He owned and operated the world's largest diving operation in the Bahamas
- the Underwater Explorers Society (UNEXSO) based in Freeport. Englander also
created The Dolphin Experience, an innovative close-encounter program which is
still highly successful. While on the Diving Industry Board of Directors, he
was asked to head their non-profit environmental organization, Ocean Futures.
From Ocean Futures he was hired by Jacques-Yves Cousteau to become CEO of the
Cousteau Society, where he served briefly until Cousteau’s death.
Englander has some 5,000 dives to his credit, including leading expeditions under
the polar ice cap and to Lake Baikal in Siberia. He serves as a Director of the
PADI Foundation, which awards 30-40 marine related scientific grants each year.
In the early 1980's he served as President of NAUI worldwide, one of the major
diver certification organizations. He is a pilot with 3,000 hours mostly in the
Bahamas and Caribbean. John and his wife Linda live in Boca Raton, FL with their
young daughter.
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 Jim
Gilbert
Jim Gilbert is the founding editor-in-chief
and former president of ShowBoats International,
the journal of record for the luxury yacht industry.
Under his leadership the magazine has galvanized
the private and corporate sides of the yachting
community in support of marine conservation.
He is also a founder of the International SeaKeepers
Society.
Through charitable events and private donors,
Mr. Gilbert has raised more than $10 million
for various international programs, including
numerous coral reef research and preservation
projects through the Museum of Oceanography in
Monaco and the Rosenstiel School at the University
of Miami. He created the Bal
de la Mer, an annual marine conservation
fundraiser held each year in Monaco under the
High Patronage of the ruling Grimaldi Royal Family.
Mr. Gilbert also established the SeaKeeper
Award, an annual award in recognition for
lifetime achievement in the field of marine conservation.
In 2006, Mr. Gilbert received the
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 Rosa
R. Maulini
Rosa R. Maulini joined SeaKeepers in 2000. Ms.
Maulini has served as Sr. Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer for the Josephson Institute of
Ethics (JIE) for over 13 years, helping guide it
from a start-up nonprofit to a multi-million dollar
nationwide operation. In her capacity as CFO, she
reported to the President
& CEO and directly to the Board of Governors.
She also handled all aspects of JIE operations
and administration including management of the
organization on a day-to-day basis. Ms. Maulini
instituted the infrastructure and systems allowing
JIE to diversify its revenue base from a membership
organization offering only a few seminars a year
to an organization offering curricular materials
and awareness products, ethics training workshops,
and consulting services.
From 1976 to 1986, Ms. Maulini worked her way
up from customer service and mailroom operations
to Chief Operating and Chief Financial Officer
of Josephson/Kluwer BRC/CES, the second largest
bar review business in the country. There, she
garnered practical experience by taking over department
after department. Among her accomplishments were
the automation and integration of customer service,
accounting, warehousing/distribution and training
operations. Ms. Maulini then served as Senior
Vice President and CFO of Women’s Financial
Network. Following WFN’s sale to Siebert,
Ms. Maulini joined The International SeaKeepers
Society where she is responsible for operations
and finance. Known for her ability to keep the
details in check and for being a Jack-of-all-Trades,
Ms. Maulini brings to SeaKeepers over 23 years
of experience in both for-profit and not-for-profit
start-up businesses. She received her BS from
the University of California at Irvine. A native
Cuba, Rosa has enjoyed living on both the California
and Florida coasts. She currently resides in South
Florida with her mother and two children.
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 Geoff
Morrison
Geoff Morrison is the Technical Director for the
International SeaKeepers Society. Since graduating
with an honors degree in physics from the Portsmouth
College of Advanced Technology in 1969 Geoff has
enjoyed a career in both physical oceanography and
oceanographic engineering that caused him to emigrate
from England to the United States and has allowed
him to travel to nearly every corner of the earth.
As a consulting ocean engineer he has worked in
the Arctic and the Antarctic, he has contracted
with the governments of Spain, Chile and Saudi Arabia.
For a period of five years between 1988 and 1993
Geoff spent three months a year living in Moscow
running a start-up oceanographic joint venture with
the Soviet ministry of fisheries.
Today Geoff is a resident of Miami and for the
last five years he has played an integral role
in SeaKeepers as part of the team responsible
for the conception and evolution the Society and
the SK1000. Geoff also manages the field monitoring
program for a local company which is contracting
to the South Florida Water Management District. |
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 Averill
Conley
Averill Elan Conley has been working with SeaKeepers
since May 2006. Although new to the ocean industry,
her love of the ocean environment, enthusiasm and
desire to learn works towards her advantage. Her
background includes over seven years of experience
in marketing, public relations and event production,
all over the country and in Europe and Asia. Her
experience includes the launch of five restaurant
openings (two for celebrity chef Todd English)
both in-house and via agency, as well as managing
events of up to 1,000 people for clients such as
HBO, the Washington Redskins and Billboard Music.
She has also managed charity events for high profile
clients such as Shaquille O’Neil and *NSYNC.
As a communications executive, Averill is familiar with marketing and media
relations programs and developing tactics and strategies for external communication
and marketing plans. She brings to the table the creativity, innovation, and
clear communication skills that these combined experiences have shaped, and
is working diligently to generate awareness for the Society and its important
work.
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