THE ADVISORY BOARD OF DIRECTORS
To further achieve economic prosperity and alleviate poverty, Pacific Aquaculture Cooperatives International (PAC) will forge strategic alliances with Heads of States by entering into business partnership with select government officials. These honorary representatives of the government will be given the opportunity to serve as Members of PAC's Advisory Board of Directors and Board of Directors on both the "for profit" and "non-for-profit" mechanisms.
They will serve to promote the interests of the company in tandem with governmental policies of the aquaculture industry. These board members will have specific fiduciary duties, whereby they will act for the benefit of the organization as persons of expertise from diverse backgrounds and who can provide a perspective on a situation, which is independent from management, and whose background will be from academia and politics.
Furthermore, as directors, they will be entitled to annual salaries and equity ownership of the company. The reciprocal relationship of the President of PAC and the Board of Directors, for example, will establish and foster accountability and proper stewardship of the marine environment from which the natural aqua rich resources are derived.
Additionally, as Members of The Board and Advisory Board, the Heads of States will endeavor to insure the economic growth and development of their island community by insuring the success of PAC.
Some of the ways this can be done is by providing exclusive rights to PAC to engage in aqua farming operations thereby excluding outside merchants from encroaching and exploiting the native's natural aqua rich resources.
This will safeguard native islanders and their aquaculture operation in two ways:
a) from being ruthlessly exploited through aqua farming operations for little or no compensation, and
b) protect the native ecosystem from depletion of sea cucumbers which would naturally disturb the harmonious balance thereby leading to potentially catastrophic consequences.
H.E. Ambassador Alfred Capelle, Advisor to PAC International
His Honorable Excellence, Permanent Representative and Ambassador of the Republic of the Marshall Islands to the UN has served a rather distinguished career over the years in service to his beloved country, the Marshal Islands. Ambassador Alfred Capelle began his distinguished career in the U.S. Army in Hawaii and Thailand. Following his tenure in the military, Ambassador Capelle entered the field of education in which he served several prominent positions as teacher, education specialist, co –author of the Marshallese-English Dictionary, moving up the ranks to take on the illustrious role of the President of the College of the Marshall Islands. During this time, our Excellence has also served as Research Protection Officer and Chief Executive Officer of the historic Alele Museum, a symbol of the Marshallese culture and heritage.
As someone who has served as a member on the Board of Trustee of Ponape Agriculture and Trade School, the concept of sustainable development is not new to Ambassador Capelle. He has voraciously championed the cause of the Marshallese before UN Committee meetings in order that the Republic of the Marshall Islands have a strong voice and visible presence in the global community.
As His Excellence poignantly asserted in a statement delivered before the 60th General Assembly of the United Nations, “In the international arena, we continue to reaffirm our solidarity with the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS). We are grateful for the support of the General Assembly in its endorsement of the Declaration and Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Program of Action for the sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, adopted at the Mauritius International Meeting last January. The Strategy necessitates quick and practical actions to address the unique challenges facing the sustainable development of Small Island Developing States.”
As honorary Advisor of PAC International Advisory Board of Directors, Ambassador Capelle will be assisting the company in its development initiatives of aquafarming on the RMI and other SIDS.
Dr. Robert Pritchard, Father of the Observance of Black History Month, World Class Pianist & Composer Extraordinaire, Chairman of Panamerican Panafrican Association, NGO to the UN, Advisor to PAC International
Robert Starling Pritchard has been heralded as history`s first commercially recorded African American virtuoso concert pianist. However, Pritchard is more than simply a pianist. His various multicultural and humanitarian activities throughout the world distinguish him as a true Renaissance man.
In 1957, Dr. Pritchard performed as part of the U.S. State Department`s cultural exchange program. He became the first African American concert pianist to tour Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa as a solo performer. As Buffalo News staff writer Carl Allen explained, Pritchard believed he was chosen for the program “partly because he knew little of the conditions the majority of black Americans endured. From what he described as a 'fantasy life` he found himself in the limelight of the Cold War era.”
During the late 1950s, Dr. Pritchard assisted in the creation of music education programs in universities throughout Africa and the Caribbean. In 1959, he established the first music department at the University of Liberia. He also sponsored the opening of the West African Institute of Music, Arts, and Crafts in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, and served as the first artist-in-residence for the Republic of Liberia. Pritchard and his students also performed piano recitals in order to fund the institute`s programs. Joseph W. Taff, editor of Monrovia`s Daily Listener, remarked to the New York Times that Pritchard “has accomplished more for the cultural advancement and development of Liberia and West Africa than many Trade and Economic Missions who have visited the country.” Dr. Pritchard assumed similar responsibilities in Haiti during the late 1950s and contributed to revitalizing the Conservatoire Nationale de Musique d`Haiti.
In October of 1962, Dr. Pritchard became the first African American to perform at New York City`s Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Philharmonic Hall. He dazzled the audience with pieces from Bach, Mendelssohn, Prokofiev, Chopin, as well as his own compositions. That same year, he served as director of the Watermead Concert Series in Pennsylvania and produced his first recording entitled, A Piano Recital.
In addition to his work in the United States, Dr. Pritchard continued to support the international music community. In 1960, he was commissioned by the Council of Ministers of the Mali Federation to submit a proposal for the establishment of the first Festival Mondial des Arts Negres (First World Festival of Negro Arts). Ultimately, this proposal was implemented in 1966 under the auspices of the government of Senegal and UNESCO.
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Dr. Pritchard founded several organizations promoting multi-ethnic culturalism and minority owned enterprises including the New York State Federation of Minority Media, and was appointed to the New York State Advisory Council on Human Rights by Governor Mario Cuomo in 1984.
Dr. Pritchard also continued to serve the world community. In September of 1991, he was selected as the American cultural advisor to the Ethiopian royal family. In this capacity, he presided over the re-establishment of the Royal Ethiopian Philharmonic, with whom he had appeared as a guest soloist in the early 1960s. |
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With his remarkable talent and world vision, Dr. Pritchard has touched many lives throughout the world. Despite his struggles with acute intermittent Porphyria, a chronic metabolic disorder, Dr. Pritchard remains committed to expanding Black History Month on a global basis. Well-educated, highly-cultured, and driven by global humanitarian aims, Pritchard truly symbolizes the modern Renaissance man. |
Dr. Pritchard will serve PAC International as a honorary Advisor of its Board of Directors by facilitating meetings with various Heads of State and Royal Families, through whose relationship he has nurtured over the years, and who are genuinely interested in the development and implementation of sustainable development projects and technologies.
- Excerpt from "Contemporary Black Biography, Profiles from the International Black Community , Volume 21, Shirelle Phelps, Editor, The Gale Group, April 1999
Dr. Tom Goreau, Scientist, Consultant, Advisor to PAC International
Dr. Tom Goreau, President of the Global Coral Reef Alliance, a non- profit organization for coral reef protection and sustainable management, has dived longer and in more coral reefs around the world than any scientist. His father was the world’s first diving marine scientist, and he grew up swimming in coral reefs as soon as he could walk.
He was previously Senior Scientific Affairs Officer at the United Nations Centre for Science and Technology for Development, in charge of global climate change and biodiversity issues. He has published around 200 papers in all areas of coral reef ecology, and on global climate change, the global carbon cycle, changes in global ocean circulation, tropical deforestation and reforestation, microbiology, marine diseases, soil science, atmospheric chemistry, community-based coastal zone management, mathematical modeling of climate records, visualizing turbulent flow around marine organisms, scientific photography, and other fields. He developed the method to predict the location, timing, and severity of coral bleaching from satellite data with Ray Hayes.
He holds patents with Wolf Hilbertz for new methods for preserving coral reefs from global warming and pollution, restoring marine ecosystems, shore protection, mariculture, and non-toxic methods of preserving wood from marine boring organisms, termites, rot, and fire, in order to increase the lifetime of wood and decrease logging. In 1998 he and Wolf Hilbertz were awarded the Theodore M. Sperry Award for Pioneers and Innovators, the top award of the Society for Ecological Restoration.
Dr. Goreau led developing country NGO efforts in marine and climate issues at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), the UN Summits on Development of Small Island Developing States (Barbados, 1994, Mauritius, 2005), and the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg, 2002).
Dr, Goreau works with tropical fishing communities around the world to restore their coral reefs and fisheries, especially the Kuna Indians of Panama, the only Native people of the Americas who have preserved their cultural and political independence. He is also a hereditary leader of the Yongu Dhuwa Aboriginal clan of Arnhem Land, Australia, that preserves the oldest creation myth in the world. Of Panamanian origin, he was educated in Jamaican primary and secondary schools, at MIT (B.Sc in Planetary Physics), Caltech (M.Sc in Planetary Astronomy), Yale, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Harvard (Ph.D. in Biogeochemistry), and is a certified nuisance crocodile remover.
As honorary advisor to PAC International Advisory Board of Directors, Dr. Goreau will assist in the development and implementation of sustainable development technologies.
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