Aleksandr Rikhterman

💫 ABOUT: Aleksandr is the Co-Founder & COO of Azul Bio and an Emmy Award winning documentary filmmaker, video producer, and marketing specialist. He’s worked with international brands and expeditions that have taken him all around the world. Now he is on a mission to combine all his skills and passions to preserving the world’s coral reefs. He is a PADI divemaster and Explorers Club member.

💪 MOTIVATION: Aleksandr has seen how important the underwater world is to our entire planet through more than 200 dives. When the opportunity came to make a positive impact on it at scale, he knew it needed to be done.

🎁 GIVE: An opportunity to be on our advisory board. We will be forming it early next year.

🙏 GET: Intros to climate focused VC's, corporates, and climate preservation/restoration grant experts.

🎉 FUN FACT: Motorcycled across Vietnam and climbed Kilimanjaro.

🌈 DREAM INTRO WISH: Insurance modeling expert - to get advice or insight on how to further model and quantify coral as shorefront protection, erosion mitigation, storm surge reduction and how the implementation of preserving coral reefs can be used as an incentive to reduce property and flood insurance costs for customers.