The Rowers
Rower
Lives in Chicago
Height: 6-3
Education: Colgate honors, Kellogg MBA Candidate
Achievements:
- Trans-Atlantic Ocean Rower –3,500 miles in 87 days
- Longest non-stop solo row in American History
- Named one of Men’s Fitness Magazine’s “25 Fittest Men in the World” in 2009.
Our calm, capable, team leader and long-distance rowing mad-man. In honor of his mother, Katherine Raub Ridley, 25 year-old Paul rowed for hope across the entire Atlantic ocean in 87 days. He was the youngest American to ever pull off such a feat. “I’m exhausted. Overwhelmed with all the excitement from my arrival,” Ridley told CNN. “Physically feeling good but will be feeling a lot better when the soreness starts to heal and once that happens I will be back to fundraising because cancer research is still in need of funding, so we still have a lot of work to do.” Surprisingly, Paul’s motto is not, never give up. It’s give it all up. Leave nothing behind. Spare no reserve of body, mind or spirit in making this world a better place, right here, right now.
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Rower
Lives in Chicago
Height: 6-2
Education: SMU honors, Kellogg MBA Candidate
Achievements:
- National Champion Adventure Racer
- Competitive CrossFit athlete
breathes inspiration, eats adversity and smiles in the face of what others call danger. (He simply calls it opportunity.) As a national champion adventure racer and Crossfit World Games competitor he fills his leisure time with an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management (same as Paul) and was recently awarded the prestigious Kauffman Fellowship. Later this year, Collin is marrying his soul-mate & sweetheart. His bride-to-be is a fellow brainiac and inspirational tour de force…also a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader & Miss Texas winner. Enough said.
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Rower
Lives in San Francisco
Height: 6-3
Education: Penn honors, Wharton MBA
Achievements:
- Climbed the 7 Summits (inc. Everest unguided)
- Swam the English Channel
- 3000+ press mentions in print, TV, and radio.
is the closest thing to a real life Bruce Wayne aka Batman that we could find. We’d love to tell you more but we can’t. Really, we can’t. Okay fine: Neal lives on one of the most famous streets in the world (Lombard Street in San Francisco). Almost as famous as he is. He works a full-time product management job yet was the 120th person in the world to climb all of the 7 Summits, including Mount Everest unguided. He’s also swam the English Channel, rowed from San Francisco to Sacramento and San Francisco to Petaluma. He has over 3,000 mentions in the press but not one of them tells you who he really is, how he pulls everything off, or most importantly, where he parks the batmobile. He lives with his dog Tenzing.
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Rower
Lives in Los Angeles
Height: 6-4
Education: UC San Diego honors, Pepperdine M.A.
Achievements:
- Summitted Mount Everest, cycled across United States, paddled from Oahu to Kaua’i.
- Global relief work & sustainable development; Thailand, Honduras & Haiti.
- Adventure Filmmaker & Professional Rescuer/EMT
is an adventure filmmaker, marketing whiz and social entrepreneur who spearheads profitable ventures for stakeholders, people and the planet — the elusive, triple-bottom-line. He’s worked at orphanages in Russia, shot documentaries in Thailand, built community centers in Fiji, practiced social enterprise in Honduras and joined disaster relief teams in Haiti. Scott thinks that anyone can climb Mount Everest, bike across the US or row across an ocean. He’s personally completed two of those three feats. ”The real challenge is to inspire everyone around you while you do it. Getting people to ‘think different’ isn’t just a tagline, it’s my life mission.” Scott has only two items left unchecked on his bucket list. One of them is to produce a film/book project that sparks lasting global change. The time is now. And this is the project.
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