Our Joint Venture Partners

Brings extensive experience to the dive fishing and aquaculture industry that ranges from the ocean floor up. In 2000 he began as commercial diver harvesting urchins, geoduck and sea cucumbers. Gordon has made a significant investment into Emerald Sea Farms Ltd. to develop a geoduck tenure to bring a sustainable food source to world.

He has over 17 years management and development experience in the aquaculture industry, specializing in sub-tidal farming. Gordon is also co-owner/operator of an active inter-tidal shellfish lease in Comox Harbour. In 2011, he brought innovation to the industry by developing an open-ocean geoduck clam nursery system and has continued to bring innovation to sub-tidal aquaculture with other advancements in farming techniques such as the Arc system.

Educated at the University of Alberta with a Business Commerce degree in Marketing and International Business, Gordon has over 25 years of project management and industry marketing experience.

Allan Hertel has been a partner with Manatee for 30 years.

Born in 1967 Ottawa Ontario, he completed his commercial diver training at Seneca College near Toronto (1988).

He relocated to BC and started working in sea urchin, sea cucumber and geoduck fisheries, skippering dive vessels within a couple years. He also became involved in geoduck aquaculture in 1994.  Mr. Hertel has been working steadily in dive fisheries and aquaculture since then.

He lives near Victoria BC with his wife of 25 years and two children.  

Philippe has been instrumental in facilitating the workshop “Developing Creative Thinking and Innovation” to Manatee.  He has a Bachelor of Business and MBA from the Solvay Business School (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium). He worked in the marketing departments of the Unilever Group and Henkel Ibérica, before assuming the post of Director of Movendus.com. He has been president of the Creativity and Innovation Committee of the Marketing Club and is a professor of Innovation and Creativity at LaSalle’s International MBA.  Visit their website at: www.inteligenciacreativa.com

DBCS has extensive experience and knowledge in the field of land development and project management.

With over 35 years of working both in the public and private sector, Dan and his team cover all phases of the development process – from the pre-assessment evaluation, application process, preliminary approval stage, construction phase to the final approval of zoning or subdivision.