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Guillermo Söhnlein | |
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Born |
Buenos Aires, Argentina | 18 May 1966
Nationality | American |
Education |
University of California, Berkeley University of California Hastings College of the Law |
Occupation | Social entrepreneur |
Known for | co-founder of OceanGate |
Guillermo Söhnlein (born May 18, 1966) is an Argentine-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]
In 1998, Söhnlein co-founded Milo, a speech recognition technology company that was acquired by Voxeo [3] in 2001.
After relocating to the Northern Virginia region outside Washington, D.C., he worked with a number of technology startup ventures, [4] [5] [6] and advised several technology-related investment groups, incubators, and economic development agencies, [7] [8] and gave frequent talks about the field. [9] [10]
In 2003, Söhnlein founded the International Association of Space Entrepreneurs (IASE), which was a nonprofit organization created to encourage successful entrepreneurs from other industries to start aerospace-related ventures and start-ups. [11] [12] The group grew from 5 people to almost 1,500 individuals around the world. [13] In 2010, the online community was transferred to the Space Frontier Foundation for ongoing growth, and IASE officially disbanded. [14]
In 2006, he founded Space Angels Network, a for-profit angel investor group for early-stage aerospace ventures. [13] [15]
Söhnlein founded the Humans2Venus Foundation in January 2020 [16] with entrepreneur Khalid Al-Ali. [17]
SFF planned sending thousands people above floating city on Venus around 2050. [18] [19] [20] Söhnlein explained to The Independent "that [Venus's] inhospitable surface, which is around 864 degrees Fahrenheit (462 degrees Celsius), should not be an issue if humans simply build a home 50km in its air where conditions are reportedly similar to those on the Earth." [16]
In 2009, Söhnlein co-founded OceanGate with Stockton Rush, a venture that provided deep-sea crewed submersibles. [21]
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. [22]
In 2013, he founded Blue Marble Exploration, which organized high-profile expeditions to explore the oceans in crewed submersibles.
In 2011, Söhnlein founded the Sea-Space Initiative, a global project to provide collaboration in ocean and space industries. [23] The first program, launched in May 2012, is the Sea-Space Summit, a global series of invitation-only workshops. [24] [25]
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Guillermo Söhnlein | |
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Born |
Buenos Aires, Argentina | 18 May 1966
Nationality | American |
Education |
University of California, Berkeley University of California Hastings College of the Law |
Occupation | Social entrepreneur |
Known for | co-founder of OceanGate |
Guillermo Söhnlein (born May 18, 1966) is an Argentine-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]
In 1998, Söhnlein co-founded Milo, a speech recognition technology company that was acquired by Voxeo [3] in 2001.
After relocating to the Northern Virginia region outside Washington, D.C., he worked with a number of technology startup ventures, [4] [5] [6] and advised several technology-related investment groups, incubators, and economic development agencies, [7] [8] and gave frequent talks about the field. [9] [10]
In 2003, Söhnlein founded the International Association of Space Entrepreneurs (IASE), which was a nonprofit organization created to encourage successful entrepreneurs from other industries to start aerospace-related ventures and start-ups. [11] [12] The group grew from 5 people to almost 1,500 individuals around the world. [13] In 2010, the online community was transferred to the Space Frontier Foundation for ongoing growth, and IASE officially disbanded. [14]
In 2006, he founded Space Angels Network, a for-profit angel investor group for early-stage aerospace ventures. [13] [15]
Söhnlein founded the Humans2Venus Foundation in January 2020 [16] with entrepreneur Khalid Al-Ali. [17]
SFF planned sending thousands people above floating city on Venus around 2050. [18] [19] [20] Söhnlein explained to The Independent "that [Venus's] inhospitable surface, which is around 864 degrees Fahrenheit (462 degrees Celsius), should not be an issue if humans simply build a home 50km in its air where conditions are reportedly similar to those on the Earth." [16]
In 2009, Söhnlein co-founded OceanGate with Stockton Rush, a venture that provided deep-sea crewed submersibles. [21]
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. [22]
In 2013, he founded Blue Marble Exploration, which organized high-profile expeditions to explore the oceans in crewed submersibles.
In 2011, Söhnlein founded the Sea-Space Initiative, a global project to provide collaboration in ocean and space industries. [23] The first program, launched in May 2012, is the Sea-Space Summit, a global series of invitation-only workshops. [24] [25]