Team

The organisation was founded on 2 August 2002, currently has some 2000 supporting and contributing members.

The projects are coordinated by a member board limited to 12 members,
Gerhard Wegner, the founder of the organisation is the current president.
All members support the organization in their own time on a voluntary, non-renumerated basis.

Gerhard Wegner
President
SHARKPROJECT

responsibility:
Public Relations, business affairs, cooperations, sponsoring, project management


Tina Gstoettner
Vice president/Ambassador
SHARKPROJECT Austria
austria@sharkproject.com
responsibility:
Public Relations, business affairs, cooperations, Sponsoring Austria, project management education science
Christine Staacks
Vice president/Web Administration
SHARKPROJECT

webmaster@sharkproject.com
responsibility:
project management internet, graphics, cooperations, editorial staff
Christel Wegner
Founding member
SHARKPROJECT
responsibility:
project management members/shop, accounting, correspondence
Rainer Heftrich
Founding member
SHARKPROJECT
responsibility:
project management fais/events
Dr. Andreas Keppeler
Founding member
SHARKPROJECT

physician, scuba-diver

responsibility:
project management Methylmercury, sponsoring

Helmut Wipplinger
Member SHARKROJECT
responsibility:
project management STOP SALES



Wolfram Koch
Member SHARKROJECT
responsibility:
project management Presse-Services / TV-Films
Gisela Panzer
Member SHARKROJECT
responsibility:
team STOP SALES
Bernd Adolf
Member SHARKROJECT
responsibility:
team STOP SALES



Peter Immerz
Member SHARKROJECT
responsibility:
team STOP SALES


  Andreas M. Serec
Member SHARKROJECT




responsibility:
photography, multimedia and online-cooperations
     

Sharkproject Embassy


Waldemar Osmalek
SHARKPROJECT Poland
responsibility:
Public Relations, business affairs, cooperations, Sponsoring Poland
Email: polen(a)sharkproject.com

  Nicole Blumenthal
SHARKPROJECT Switzerland





responsibility:
Public Relations, business affairs, cooperations, Sponsoring
Switzerland
Email: schweiz(a)sharkproject.com
Andy Cobb
Honorary Member
Ambassador
SHARKPROJECT
South Africa

Sharkoperator/Umkoomas S.A., dive instructor
NAUI-Chief SA

responsibility:
Public Relations, business affairs, cooperations, Sponsoring South Africa
Email: southafrica(a)sharkproject.com



Honorary member & experts

  Dr. Leonard J. V. Compagno
Honorary Member

Shark Research Centre
South African Museum, Cape town South Africa

Dr. Leonard J. V. Compagno is world-wide the most renowned shark researcher, the father of the shark taxonomy with a multiplicity of scientific publications over sharks.

  Marie Levine
Honorary Member
Direktor Shark Research Institut, Princeton USA

Marie Levine is one of the prominent shark accident specialists. Marie worked many years on the Natal Sharks board in South Africa, where she was confronted with many accidents.

Kurt Amsler
Honorary Member

SHARK ALLIANCE Ambassador

Kurt Amsler won over 100 awards at international photo competitions and a world champion title. His innumerable reports in technical periodicals as well as in considerable magazines and newspapers world-wide, showed the under water world to the readers.
He engages himself among other things with SOS sea turtles, Project AWARE, ASMS.


 

Harald Bänsch
Founding member
SHARKPROJECT

Former Vicepresident and founding member SP



Authority on environmentalism, conservation and fisheries
  Peter Arnold



Project manager Submarine construction

  Wolf Snyckers Project manager Submarine South Africa
Boleng Adventures, Pretoria, RSA

  Prof. Heumann
Analyser



Authority on Methylmercurytestings
  Dr. Kruse
toxicologist



world-famous toxicologist of the university Kiel
Authority on Methylmercury