The Team

The social media sensation known throughout the yachting industry and beyond as TheYachtGuy has captivated yachting enthusiasts across the world.

Alex Jimenez, as he is known by family and friends, provides luxury connoisseurs with daily updates of the industry’s finest yachts and extravagant items that money can buy.

Explore the numbers behind his platforms to better under the power that social media holds + how these platforms can add some much needed vibrancy to this sometimes archaic industry.

Dickie Bannenberg is the founder along with Simon Rowell, of the design studio Bannenberg Rowell. The studio, headquartered in London, creates bespoke design for private clients, luxury yachts, residential projects, aircraft interiors and custom furniture.

Bannenberg is the son of the late Jon Bannenberg, the man who is credited with being the founder of modern yacht design in the 1960s. Dickie worked alongside his father for 18 years, during which time he was project manager for wide-ranging yachts such as Talitha, Thunder and Siran. Dickie authored and produced an exquisite commemorative book on his father, entitled, Jon Bannenberg, A Life of Design.

The Bannenberg Rowell design portfolio is one, no doubt, his father would be proud of. The studio has won numerous awards for its designs, recently winning a top award for exterior design of the 230-foot (70 meter) Feadship Joy. Dickie has a notoriously funny and dry sense of humor.

Having designed some of the world’s finest megayachts, yacht design firm Gregory C. Marshall Naval Architect Ltd. has built a reputation as one of the top naval architecture firms in the world. For more than 35 years, founder Greg Marshall and his business partner, naval architect Gordon Galbraith, have designed ever-larger megayachts, and a commercial craft for a wide variety of clientele. As with any life-long dream, it started early with Greg.

Greg’s father, Victoria architect Donovan Marshall, recognized his son’s obsession and introduced him to Bill Garden, the famed yacht designer. Garden asked the 15-year-old Greg to sketch a yacht for a customer. Greg made batches of drawings and when the opportunity presented itself, Garden offered him a few weeks of drafting work after High School. In 6 years under the tutelage of Bill Garden, Greg amassed the skills and practical approach to yacht design that has served him to this day.

Web3 consultant

Shannon Allen

Marco Casali is the founder of TOO-DESIGN, an architecture and yacht design studio based in Rome. When Marco was six years old, he started sailing with his family on an old steel Akerboom yacht. He developed a passion for drawing boats but never thought this could be his job.

After completing a degree in architecture and gaining experience with an in-house design team, his interest brought him back to the sea, and he spent six years collaborating with important design officies on projects for Ferretti, Bertram and CRN.

In 2004 Casali established his own studio to consolidate his experience in luxury home design with his passion for yacht design, and since then the company has been responsible for the exterior and interior design of the Itama brand, part of the Ferretti Group. Other production yacht projects have been developed for Bavaria, Nix catamarans, ZL RIBs and others, totaling over 300 yachts cruising today.

Since 2010 the studio has worked on larger custom projects from 30m to 110m for shipyards such as Benetti, ISA Yachts and Fincantieri. The studio is still involved in luxury interiors and product design, combining the experiences of different worlds into a common creative process. Follow Marco on his Instagram Page or explore his designs below.

FOUNDER OF CLOUD YACHTS

 Zach Mandelstein

Jon Galamay is a member of the Bored Ape Yacht Club and owns BAYC #8586, a Captain’s Hat Ape. He had his entry into the blockchain space during the 2017 ICO craze, traded the 2020 DeFi Summer, and had his first NFT purchase in 2020 eventually collecting over 600 NFTs across multiple blockchains.

Jon has established intellectual property usage of NFTs through a release of the Bored IPApe and Mutant Seltzer as well as advising for several NFT collections and a metaverse company based in Colombia.

Coming in as a Web 3 advisor, Jon will be handling the groundwork for any upcoming NFT launches, game theory mechanics, brand strategy and strategic partnerships.