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The Beyond Chacay Foundation, through its core competence of training and education, will become a catalyst, mobilizing tourists and their resources as vehicles of change, transforming the traditional dependence mindset to one of enthusiasm, diligence, collaboration and the co creation of shared value.

Our Advisory Team Members Are Country Experts in the Areas of Agriculture and Food Production, Biology and Ecology, Ecotourism, The Creation of Shared Value and Value Chain Management, Finances, and Entrepreneurship

Executive Team and Board Members

• Tristam Johnson, Cofounder, Beyond Chacay Foundation

• Pritpal (Pali) Singh, Professor, Electrical Engineering, Villanova U, IEEE Smart Village

• Gema Alava, Artist

• Bill Richter, Attorney, Intellectual Property, Santa Cruz

• David Lansdale, Cofounder and President, BCF

• Galo Flores, Executive Director, Beyond Chacay Foundation

• Javier Urquizo, Research Coordinator, Villanova University

• Paul Alcivar, Financial Advisor, FlipCause Campaign Coordinator

• Brandon Bender, Marketing and Virtual Networks Coordinator, Boeing Corporation

• Philip Behrends, AI and Blockchain Coordinator

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• Advisory Council, Ecuador

• Milton Aguas, Executive Director, ECU911, Galapagos Islands

• Monica Paez, Director of Tourism, Galapagos Region

• Jackie Silva, Attorney, Office of the Vice President, Quito

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The Beyond Chacay International Advisory Board

• Marco Estrella is Dean of the Colegio de Turismo at the Universidad de Cuenca

• Bill Durham, a MacArthur Fellow, is professor of anthropology, biology and ecology at Stanford UniversityCarter Hunt, Ph.D., is professor of Ecotourism at Pennsylvania State University

• Dan Wessner, also a MacArthur Fellow, is on the faculty of Future University

• Mike Koziol earned his Ph.D. from Oxford, and is the founding Dean of the College of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito.

• Giuseppe Marzano, with a Ph.D. in Tourism from Queensland University, is Dean of the School of Business at the USFQ

• Lenin Pareño is the Comunidad Andina de Fomento´s chief economist.  He teaches economics at the Universidad Catolica de Quito

• Kelly Swing, Ph.D., is founder of the Tiputini Biodiversity Station in the heart of the Amazon (Yasuni), designated by National Geographic as one of the most extraordinary destinations on planet earth.  A professor at the USFQ, Kelly has the distinction of being published in both Science and Nature in the same month.

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