Participating Innovators

Everyone who attends the Executive Symposium for Innovators in Coastal Tourism Development will be engaged, active participants. The program is designed to facilitate maximum information and idea exchange in an intimate format, so that all attendees will have ample opportunity to both learn from experts and share their own innovations. Below is a list of innovators who have confirmed their participation. Please click here to join them.

Name	Title	Organization, Company, Region	Biography
Manuel Ardon	Senior Director of Operations	Peninsula Papagayo	Click Here
Emily Arnold	Chief of Staff to Chairman	Prize Capital LLC	Click Here
Maria Eugenia Arreola	Director	Mesoamerican Reef Leadership Program, Mexican Fund for the Conservation of Nature (FMCN)	Forthcoming
Bill Barnett	Director of the Center for Global Business and the Economy	Stanford Graduate School of Business	Click Here
Guido Bauer	CEO	Green Globe	Click Here
Dan Berrien		Canopy Development	Click Here
Chris Blackwell	CEO	Island Outpost and Island Records	Click Here
Robert Breech	Member, Board of Directors	CREST	Click Here
David Butterfield	Founder & President	The Trust for Sustainable Development	Click Here
Margaret (“Meg”) Caldwell	Executive Director Senior Lecturer in Law	Center for Ocean Solutions Stanford University	Click Here
Marina Cazorla	Program Coordinator	Gulf of California	Click Here
Linda Chipperfield	Vice President of Marketing & Outreach	Green Seal Inc	Click Here
Jesse Ziff Cool	Founder	CoolEatz Catering	Click Here
Whitney Cooper	Program Associate	CREST	Click Here
Richard Cudney	Associate Program Officer	David & Lucile Packard Foundation	Forthcoming
Lisa Curran	Senior Fellow	Woods Institue for the Environment	Forthcoming
Sebastián Muñoz de Baena		Grupo Questro	Forthcoming
Jorge De Vicente	Sustainable Tourism Specialist	Inter-American Development Bank	Click Here
Eileen Donnelly	Group Sustainability Manager	Virgin Group	Click Here
Dr. William Durham	Co-Founder & Co-Director Bing Professor in Human Biology	CREST Stanford University	Click Here
Dr. Sylvia Earle	Ocean Explorer, Founder, CEO	Deep Search Foundation	Click Here
Bill Eichbaum	Vice President, Marine and Arctic Policy; Acting Vice President, US Government Relations	WWF	Click Here
Vicente Ferreyra	Sustainable Tourism Coordinator	WWF Mexico	Click Here
Richard Franko	Architect & Principal	Mithun Architects	Click Here
Lisa Gabor	Vice President for Creative Strategy	Island Outpost	Click Here
Lisa Galley	Managing Principal	Galley Eco Capital	Click Here
Terry Gibson	President	North Swell Media	Click Here
Mary-Elizabeth Gifford	Advisor for Spa, Sustainability, and Botanically-Based Beauty	Island Outpost	Click Here
Gabriela Giron	Business Student	El Salvador	Forthcoming
Martin Goebel	Executive Director	Sustainable Northwest	Click Here
Sandra Guido	Executive Director	CONSELVA, A.C.	Click Here
Carlos Hernandez	CEO	Pellas Development Group	Forthcoming
Martha Honey	Co-Founder & Co-Director	CREST	Click Here
David Jerome	Senior Vice President, Corporate Responsibility	IHG	Click Here
Alphy Johnson	C.O.O.	Candela Hotels	Click Here
Peter Jordan	Documentary Filmaker	Local Films	Click Here
Alex E. Khajavi	CEO, Chairman of the Board	NatureAir Group, Naturegate	Click Here
Richard Kiy	Director	International Community Foundation	Click Here
David Krantz	DC Coordinator	CREST	Click Here
Dana Krauskopf	Founder/Owner	Hamanasi Adventure & Dive Resort	Click Here
Nicole Kravec	Graduate Student	The Fletcher School, Boston	Click Here
Roger Lang	Founder & Fund Manager	Sun Ranch Group	Click Here
Dean LaTourrette	Executive Director	Save the Waves Coalition	Click Here
David Leventhal	Principal	Playa Viva, Mexico	Click Here
Joao de Macedo	Program Manager	Save the Waves	Forthcoming
Robin Mason	Tourism Development Specialist		Forthcoming
Anne McEnany	Senior Advisor	International Community Foundation	Click Here
Thomas Meller	Director of Hotel Development and Operations	Mesoamerican Reef Tourism Initiative (MARTI)	Click Here
Jose Luis Murguia	Architect	Grupo Questro Development	Click Here
Charlene Music	Documentary Filmaker	Local Films	Click Here
Pablo Sanchez Navarro	Vice President	Grupo Questro Development	Forthcoming
Dr. David Orr	Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics	Oberlin College	Click Here
Antonio Pares	Principals	Mithun Architects	Click Here
Kevin Parkhurst	Chief Associate/Design Coordinator	Eric Lloyd Wright & Associates	Click Here
Jess Ponting	Professor of Sustainable Tourism	San Diego State University	Click Here
Alejandro Robles		Sustainable Northwest	Forthcoming
Carlos Rodriguez	Mexico & Central America Interim Director	Conservation International	Click Here
Carlos Saavedra	Executive Director	Summit Foundation	Forthcoming
Rosalyn Salters	Consultant	CREST	Forthcoming
Ronald Sanabria	Vice President, Sustainable Tourism	Rainforest Alliance	Click Here
Bry Sarté	Principal	Sherwood Design Engineers	Click Here
Tiffany Schauer	Founder	OCE Foundation	Click here
Polibio Schiffino	President	Casa Bonita Resort & Spa	Forthcoming
David Sklar	CEO	Star Island Bahamas	Click Here
Murray Simpson	Director	CARIBSAVE Partnership	Click Here
Mark Spalding	President	Ocean Foundation	Click Here
Deborah Szekely	Co-Founder Founder	Rancho La Puerta, Tecate, Mexico Golden Door, Escomdido, CA	Click Here
Jesse Thompson	Business Development Director, Strategic Initiatives	Johnson Controls	Forthcoming
Pat Tierney	Chair, Professor and Graduate Coordinator Department of Recreation, Parks, and Tourism	San Francisco State University	Click Here
Jonathan Tortellot	Director, and Geotourism Editor	National Geographic Traveler	Click Here
Walter Vergara	Lead Chemical Engineer, Environment Department	World Bank	Click Here
Eduardo Villafranca	CEO	Grupo Punta Islita, Costa Rica	Click Here
Brook Wilkinson	Journalist		Click Here
Alejandro Yberri	General Director	CostaBaja Resort & Marina	Click Here
Claudia Yep	Sustainable Tourism Coordinator	Asociación Odebrecht Perú	Click Here
Shamsalsadat Zahedi	Professor	Allameh Tabataba'i University, Iran	Click Here
Bradley Zlotnick	Physician, Board Member	Zlotnick BioMed, Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Foundation	Forthcoming