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Christian Buckley is a husband, father, surfer, businessman and lawyer – hopefully in that order.
He is a partner in his own law firm and currently practices constitutional appellate law and provides strategic employment, business and legal counseling to a number of corporate, individual and nonprofit clients.
He is the president of Covered Images, a global action sports digital photography company, and a founding member of Living Light Media, a publishing and new-media production company in San Diego.
Christian grew up in southern California and worked as a state beach lifeguard prior to entering law school. He now lives in San Diego California with his wife Bridget and daughter Maeve. He received a Juris Doctor with Specialization in Business Law from UCLA and a Bachelor’s degree in History from the University of California, Irvine. He is a member of the bar of California and United States Supreme Court and sits on the board of directors of Aaron Chang International. |
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As a former CFO of both Billabong USA and Hurley Intl., Mr. Ochsner comes equipped with a lot of financial knowledge to pass on. Mike currently resides in Vero Beach, Florida. |
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Jim Moriarty, Executive Director of the Surfrider Foundation, is an avid surfer, entrepreneur and innovator. Moriarty has more than 15 years management experience in corporate start-ups, specializing in e-learning, e-commerce, infrastructure software, and business-to-business ventures. He lives with his wife and two children in Solana Beach, CA, where he is also active leading and mentoring high school students on surfing and home-building trips to the Baja Peninsula. He brings to the position a wealth of international, fundraising and team-building experience that translate to leading the Surfrider Foundation. Jim holds a B.S. in Information Systems from The Ohio State University, and has had speaking engagements in the US, Europe, Australia and Latin America. His home break is Cardiff Reef. |
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Gerald Jerry Dow was born a few weeks just before the invasion of Normandy (we're talking world War II, that's old) in Worcester, Massachusetts. After military service and a few odd jobs Jerry moved to Santa Barbara California, California to attend Brook's Institute of Photography In Santa Barbara he also continued his service to youth as a Scoutmaster, but more importantly at age 23 gave his life to the lordship of Jesus Christ.
Over the years Jerry worked in the aerospace and defense industry staring with the Sidewinder missile for a subsidy of Hughes Aircraft and ending with a division of General Motors on the LRV project (Lunar Roving Vehicle). Jerry now being married and having his first child (three more would follow) found the unstable nature of the industry not good. As providence would have it in time Jerry became the Crime Analyst for the Santa Barbara Police Department, which he would retire from in 1999.
Jerry continued to serve Jesus in both church leadership roles and the community youth in scouting positions and with AYSO to name a few. It was in 1984 that Jerry's concern about the direction and influence of surfing on youth (especially his oldest son) that he responded to God's calling to help found what is now CSUS
Jerry today continues with his commitment to youth as a high school teacher in the Big Beach city of Sierra Vista, Arizona (flat waves) and to God as a member of CSUS board of directors. |
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Mike Barrett is a core group member of the Oregon chapter which is now in its third generation of leadership. Mike is also the author of "The Danger Habit; Turning Your Love for Risk Into Life Changing Faith". The book will be released in December 2006 by Multnomah Publishers. Professionally, Mike is a fulltime executive with a global technology consulting company. He also serves as the main teaching pastor at Coast Vineyard Christian Fellowship in Lincoln City, Oregon. In 2001, following a?series of personal tragedies, Mike helped start the Oregon chapter of CSUS to reconnect with his childhood passion and help reach the increasing number of surfers in Oregon. That ministry has since grown and today it directly ministers to over 400 local surfers throughout the state of Oregon Mike is a 1988 graduate of Judson College and now lives in Lincoln City, Oregon with his wife and four children. Mike advises CSUS in the areas of Chapter growth and Leadership development. |
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Greg Hawkins is the founder of covered images and an innovative business executive with a proven track record of growing and leading high growth and start up companies. In the past, Greg served as Chairman and CEO of buy.com where he was recognized as an expert in online retailing from site design to fulfillment and customer satisfaction. Greg led the company through it's final round of venture funding ($165 million) and a successful IPO in March of 2000. Before joining buy.com, Greg spent nearly 10 years with Ingram Micro, the world's largest wholesale distributor of technology products and services. |
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The National Office exists to lead and serve the local chapters and its members. This includes, but is not limited to: mission and vision, training, resources, administration, staffing, and web hosting.
Christian Surfers USA
PO Box 9
St. Augustine, FL 32085
Phone: 904-471-4308
Fax: 877-301-7822
Ocean City, NJ Chapter Director
Denis Weiler
pray4waves2@aol.com
609-390-0574
Bali, Indonesia
Ado & Clair Young
CSI Regional Coordinator
Cal Fisher
386.405.4315
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