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Guillermo Söhnlein
Born (1966-05-18) 18 May 1966 (age 58)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of California, Berkeley
University of California Hastings College of the Law
OccupationSocial entrepreneur
Websitewww.sohnlein.com

Guillermo Söhnlein (born May 18, 1966) is an Argentine and American businessman, best known as the co-founder of deep-sea exploration company OceanGate. Söhnlein left the company in 2013, retaining a minority stake.[1][2]

Biography

Guillermo Söhnlein was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1966.[citation needed] He emigrated to the United States in 1972 with his family, where they settled in San Jose, California.[citation needed] He attended St. Francis High School in Mountain View. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1986.[citation needed] He graduated in December 1989 from the University of California at Berkeley with an A.B. in economics. In May 1995 he earned a J.D. from the University of California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the West-Northwest Journal of Environmental Law and Policy.[3][dead link‍]

From 1995 to 1999, he served in the United States Marine Corps, achieving the rank of Captain.

In 2011, Söhnlein was accepted as a Fellow of Opus Novum,[citation needed] a group committed to professional conduct guided by Seven Principles.[4]

Professional career

In 1998, Söhnlein co-founded Milo, a speech recognition technology company that was acquired by Voxeo[5] in 2001.

After relocating to the Northern Virginia region outside Washington, D.C., he worked with a number of technology startup ventures,[6][7][8][9] and advised several technology-related investment groups, incubators, and economic development agencies,[10][11] and gave frequent talks about the field.[12][13]

Space commercialization ventures

In 2003, Söhnlein founded the International Association of Space Entrepreneurs (IASE), which is a nonprofit organization created to encourage successful entrepreneurs from other industries to start aerospace-related ventures and start-ups.[14][15] The group grew from 5 people to almost 1,500 individuals around the world.[16] In 2010, the online community was transferred to the Space Frontier Foundation for ongoing growth, and IASE officially disbanded.[17]

In 2006, he founded Space Angels Network, a for-profit angel investor group for early-stage aerospace ventures.[16][18] Founding members included Esther Dyson, Stephen Fleming, David S. Rose, and Ed Tuck.[19][20] In April 2007, Burton Lee joined as co-founder, and the two led the group's Aerospace Venture Forums showcasing entrepreneurial ventures for prospective investors.[21][22][23] In 2010, Joe Landon took over as managing director, and under his leadership the group announced its first four investment deals during 2011–2012.[23][24][25][26][27] As of early 2013, the group consisted of approximately 30 investor members living across the United States and Europe and more than 100 young companies that had applied for funding.[28]

Ocean exploration ventures

In 2009, Söhnlein co-founded OceanGate with Stockton Rush, a venture that provides deep-sea crewed submersibles. It owns and operates Antipodes, a five-person crewed submersible with a depth rating of 305 meters (1,000 feet) and twin 58" hemispherical acrylic domes fore and aft on its cylindrical hull. During 2010–2012, he helped organize five submarine exploration expeditions to Santa Catalina Island in California, Puget Sound in Washington, Monterey Bay (twice) in California, and Miami in Florida.[29][30][31][32][33]

In 2010, he re-launched the Ocean Exploration Committee of the Marine Technology Society, a nonprofit membership association supporting students and industry professionals in marine-related fields.[34]

In 2011, he co-founded the OceanGate Foundation,[citation needed] now ExploreOcean, a nonprofit organization that conducts outreach programs on crewed submersibles.

In 2013, he founded Blue Marble Exploration, which organized high-profile expeditions to explore the oceans in crewed submersibles.

Sea-Space Connections

In 2011, he founded the Sea-Space Initiative, a global project to provide collaboration in ocean and space industries.[35] The first program, launched in May 2012, is the Sea-Space Summit, a global series of invitation-only workshops.[36][37]

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