Our Team

Board of Directors

Joe Quirk

Joe Quirk

President

Joe Quirk is President of The Seasteading Institute and co-founder of Blue Frontiers. Joe Quirk is also a science writer, novelist, and memoir ghostwriter, with a national bestseller in each... Read More

Michael Strong

Michael Strong

Director

Michael Strong is focused on entrepreneurial solutions to world problems.  The two biggest categories of such solutions are governance innovation and the creation of healthy subcultures.  In governance innovation, Michael... Read More

James R. Von Ehr II

James R. Von Ehr II

Director

Recognized as a leader within the nanotechnology industry, he founded the Texas Nanotechnology Initiative and the Feynman Grand Prize in Nanotechnology. His significant gifts established the University of Texas at... Read More

O.Shane Balloun

O.Shane Balloun

Lawyer

O.Shane Balloun is a lawyer in Western Washington, practicing at his firm, Balloun Law Professional Corporation. His areas of practice include admiralty and maritime law, high-tech business law, property law,... Read More

Staff

Joe Quirk

Joe Quirk

President

Joe Quirk is President of The Seasteading Institute and co-founder of Blue Frontiers. Joe Quirk is also a science writer, novelist, and memoir ghostwriter, with a national bestseller in each... Read More

Carly Jackson

Carly Jackson

Development Director

Carly Jackson joined the Seasteading community after meeting a group of seasteaders at the Startup Societies Conference in August 2017. She has dreamed of living on a seastead ever since.... Read More

Advisors

Randolph Hencken

Randolph Hencken

Business Advisor

Randy earned his MA in communication and his BS in business administration from San Diego State University. From 2008 to 2011, he was the Director of Communication and Marketing for... Read More

Tom W. Bell

Tom W. Bell

Professor of Law and Legal Consultant

Professor Tom W. Bell earned his J.D. from the University of Chicago, practiced law in Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C., and served as a policy director at the Cato Institute... Read More

Ambassador Laureates

Aldo Antinori

Aldo Antinori

As an innovation marketing professional with experience in developing startups in emerging industries, including blockchain and legaltech, Aldo is a true believer that technology and freedom are the solutions to... Read More

Egor Ryjikov

Egor Ryjikov

Co-founder and managing partner of Weber CoMechanics Group

“Islands 2.0″ Weber CoMechanics Group is a made up of 16 companies involved in engineering, robotics, manufacturing, and development and application of new technologies. Egor is also an inventor, experimenter,... Read More

Greg Delaune

Greg Delaune

PPP & Sustainable Economic Development Expert

Greg Delaune is an internationally recognized consultant, teacher, speaker, and writer specializing in sustainable economic development and public-private partnerships (PPPs) for green cities and smart cities. Greg has over 15... Read More

Nima Kaz

Nima Kaz

Nima is cofounder of Impactonomy Innovation Labs, abbreviated “iiLabs+”, the curator behind innovation ecosystems, startups & social enterprises like #CheerForPeace, incubated at the IBQP (Brazilian Institute for Quality & Productivity)... Read More