BAY ECOTARIUM - Key Persons


Angelina Preza

Job Titles:
  • Director, EcoXpeditions Sales & Promotions

Angelique Tompkins

Job Titles:
  • Secretary

Ben Bleiman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman ( Outgoing )

Christopher Low

Job Titles:
  • Director, Life Support Systems & Facilities

Dr. George Jacob

Job Titles:
  • President & CEO, BayEcotarium

Gary Bobker

Job Titles:
  • Director, Rivers & Delta Program

Jaz Cariola

Job Titles:
  • General Manager

Jon Fisher

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Bay.Org
  • Incoming Chair
We are delighted to welcome Silicon Valley entrepreneur and philanthropist Jon Fisher as the incoming Chair of Bay.org. Winner of multiple awards for entrepreneurship, Jon sold his own NFTs before founding the software company ViciNFT, prior to building three companies including Bharosa-which produced the Oracle Adaptive Access Manager and sold to Oracle Corporation. An Adjunct Professor at University of San Francisco, he is the author of "Strategic Entrepreneurism: Shattering the Start-Up Entrepreneurial Myths (2008)" and is named on over 100 patents globally. Fisher has been a trustee of the Nueva School in Hillsborough, the Pacific Vascular Research Foundation in South San Francisco, and has served on the board of the Buck Institute For Age Research. An avid volunteer Diver and marine conservationist, he has supported the Aquarium's fund-raising efforts with his wife Darla and daughter Avery, during the most challenging Covid/ post-Covid years.

Kevin McEligot

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, Animal Care

Melissa Schouest

Job Titles:
  • Director, Animal Care

Patrick Doran

Job Titles:
  • Director, Information Technology

Paul Nakamoto

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Guest Experiences

Shailesh Shukla - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Treasurer

Shelby Taketa

Job Titles:
  • Director, Institutional Advancement

Teppei Tokura

Job Titles:
  • Controller

Vicki De Witt

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant and Board Liaison