Our Team . Staff . Board - Plastic Oceans Foundation

Plastic Oceans Team

Julie Andersen

CEO & Co-Founder

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Craig Leeson

Chief Evangelist

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Juan Castaño Vilas

Chief Operating Officer

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Mark Minneboo

Director of Advocacy

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Samantha Pickering

Director of Education

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Charles Rolsky

Director of Science

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Andrea Torres

Regional Director, Europe

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Viviana Pinto

Executive Director, Chile

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Salvador Ávila

Executive Director, Mexico

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Liv Ward

Director of Sustainable Communications

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Sue Argüelles

Director of BlueCommunities

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Ana Hanhausen

Assistant Director, Mexico

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Pau Hanono

Communications Coordinator, International & Mexico

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Iván Navarro

Operations Manager, Chile

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Francesca Gattolin

Communications Manager, Europe

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Cat Hellmann

Film Impact Manager

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Ambassadors

Matthew Modine

Actor & Environmentalist

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Merijn Tinga

Plastic Soup Surfer, Biologist, Artist

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Carlos Vives

Singer & Actor

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Louie Schwartzberg

Filmmaker

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Denise Lira-Ratinoff

Interdisciplinary Artist

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Sarah Ferguson

Founder, Breathe Conservation

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Global Advisors

Malcolm Wood

Entrepreneur, Environmental Filmmaker and United Nations Ambassador. Co-Founder of hospitality group Maximal Concepts.

Craig Leeson

Founder of Leeson Media International and Ocean Vista Films. Chairman of 1 Shot Hong Kong Film Festival. Asia correspondent for Seven Network and an international Correspondent for Al Jazeera Media Network.

William Pfeiffer

Executive Chairman and Co-Founder, Globalgate. Global Advisor to WTA, and Senior Advisor to Lionsgate Entertainment.

Schuyler (Sky) M. Moore

A partner in the corporate entertainment department of Greenberg Glusker LLP, practicing entertainment, corporate, and tax law.

Roman Carel

Founder and CEO of Athena Advisors.

Keyur Patel

Chairman and Managing Director, Fuse Capital.