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MANAGEMENT

John Englander
Chief Executive Officer
Jim Gilbert
Board President
Rosa Maulini
Executive Vice President
Chief Financial Officer

Geoff Morrison
Vice President of Technology & Engineering
Averill Conley
Communications Manager
 

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 prestigious Leadership Award from the International Superyacht Society.

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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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