OUR TEAM

Meet our passionate team of experts.

Leadership Team

Rick Warner

Sustainable Environmental and Economic Development Leadership

Rick has considerable experience negotiating multi-million dollar contracts, managing global teams of diverse people, initiating new corporate ventures , raising venture capital, and deploying Department of Commerce and Department of Transportation funding to enable the use of new technology.

Rick is a Year 2000 ComputerWorld Smithsonian Laureate and is a 2008 Lawrence Tech Innovator of the Year nominee. This prestigious honor was awarded to him and two of his Action Engine company colleagues for their efforts in developing a consumer-oriented mobile services platform. Before Action Engine, and setting the standard for his work there, Rick trained and worked with industry leaders such as Boeing, McDonnell Douglas, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Hexcel, British Telecom, Palm, General Motors, and Paccar. Rick, whose Great uncle was Joshua Slocum, (the first man to sail solo around the World) holds four Sailing World records and like many sailors, is a keen conservationist.

His current yacht is Areté a foiling trimaran, which allows him to appreciate and share with others all that the great bodies of water on this blue marble we call Earth.

Katarina Fjording

Operations and Implementation

Paulo Nobrega Lopes

Business Development

Ted Lavoie

Financial Management and Governance

Trevaun Solomon

General Manager & President

Trevaun has an extensive portfolio of start-up experience. He serves educational and financial interests in the Caribbean by starting and operating the Caribbean's first online regional private school, and is a passionate activist for entrepreneurial development in the Caribbean.

Trevaun is the 2019 UNOPS Hackathon winner, and the 2020 winner of the Eastern Caribbean Start-up Investment competition hosted by Daymond John - the Shark Tank judge.

Having won other start-up pitch competitions hosted by organizations such as the Caribbean Development Bank, USAID, and the US Embassy in Barbados. Known for his ability to turn theoretical plans into well-oiled operational machines, Trevaun consistently delivers efficiency and innovation to the companies he aligns with.

Lane Martin

Consultant

Aracio Rameriz

Venture Investment

Paul Stocking

Investor Relations

Jeff Roof

Systems Integration

Dave Proctor

Content and Messaging

Paul Bohn

Legal

Advisory Team

Alex Amengual

Island Art

Dr. Mark Hammond

Natural Products Development

(AKI) Ahamed Allagholi

Coral Reef Restoration and Banking

Dr. Antares Ramos-Alvarez

Policy, Natural Resources Management, Blue Economy, Spatial Planning, and Marine Protected Areas

Elaise Darwaton

Island Resilience and Energy

Rhoda Green

USA and Barbados History of the Future

Sam Enfield

Renewable Energy and Sustainability

Mark Way

Climate Risk and Nature-Based Solutions

Long Now Team

Mike Staiger

Marine Biology

Trevaun Solomon

Chairperson

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