Guy Courtney earned his B.A. in Business Administration from Illinois State University. He retired from investment banking after he had founded and managed his own firm.

Guy has studied oceanography since college and his fascination led to meeting members of the Cousteau family. Living in Aspen, Colorado led him to a presentation on the condition of the Coral Reefs where he learned that over 50% of the Great Barrier Reef was dead and continues to die. Fact is, this is true of coral on a world-wide basis. It is dying at alarming rates, and we can do something about that. His enjoyment of sailing had now met a truly legitimate need of the oceans and the world. Now, he channels his investment banking experience along with his leadership skills to that end.

His experience also includes a New Mexico chili operation where he took a failing business, renegotiated loan agreements with a significant international bank, reconstructed the business enterprise, and subsequently sold it to a venture capital group. While visiting Snowmass, Colorado, he was asked for his help in working out loan agreements for a struggling, high profile Snowmass business. This was successfully completed, and Guy was requested to run this restaurant and dog sledding operation. He did so successfully for four years.

While in the investment banking business he testified before Congress as an expert witness. He also chaired the Chicago chapter (25,000 members) of the United Shareholders Association for T. Boone Pickens. Having worked with George W. Bush in a capital raise in the oil and gas business, Guy was introduced to the political world. He has given professional Congressional testimony on three separate occasions.

Sailing began on Lake Michigan and he has since sailed the Atlantic and Pacific coastal waters although he says that Lake Michigan is, in many ways, a harder place to sail. Having lived aboard his boat in San Diego at Harbor Island he has piloted many different boats of various sizes and complexities. He describes sailing as a peaceful experience with the periodic rodeo thrown in for good measure. Thirty years of sailing experience leads him fully to this point of restoring Coral Reefs around the globe.

His full concentration is now centered on the goal to restore the world’s coral environment while engaging thousands of others to join in.