Meet the Team
Our Founders
Brian Rosborough
Founder and Managing Director
Brian was Founder Chairman of Earthwatch, a successful social venture capital enterprise that has funded field research science in 125 countries. Mr. Rosborough has been Trustee of Princeton University, Mount Holyoke College, Deerfield Academy, Rocky Mountain Institute, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and other ESG institutions. He has served as an officer on a US destroyer and represented the MIT Media Lab at the United Nations. He studied history at Princeton, law at University of Florida, and business at Harvard.
Bayley Silleck
Media Director
Bayley is Founder CEO of Blue Mountain Film LLC and is a voting member of the Documentary Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Mr. Silleck has been Film Director (29 credits), Screenwriter (27 credits), and Producer (6 credits) of award- winning IMAX giant-screen, museum, TV, and documentary productions including The Star-Spangled Banner: Anthem of Liberty, Cosmic Voyage, Lost Worlds: Life in the Balance, Dinosaurs Alive! 3D, Wired to Win, Concerto for the Earth, Art of the Western World, On the Wing, Energy! Energy! The Amazing Years of Cinema, Dive into the Cayman Trough, and A Dylan Thomas Memoir. Recently he has used his documentary films, like Rappahannock, to help preserve threatened natural resources. He studied English at Princeton and learned filmmaking in Europe and New York.
Mark Carthy
Financial Director
Mark is Founder and Managing Partner of Orion Equity Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm in the life sciences, technology, energy, and healthcare sectors.
Mr. Carthy was listed on the Forbes Midas List in 2009 as a leading venture capitalist and served on the Board of the New England Venture Capital Association from 2006-13. He studied Chemical Engineering, University College, Dublin, has a Master of Science, University of Missouri, and an MBA from Harvard.
Our Filmmakers
Jessica Plumb
Jessica Plumb is an award-winning filmmaker and writer known for exploring the relationship between people, and the land and waters that sustain us. She is the Producer and Co-Director of the feature documentary Return of the River, chronicling Elwha River restoration, a film recognized with multiple awards including “Best Storytelling” by the International Wildlife Film Festival, and “Best Writing” in science media. Collectively, her films have appeared in over 50 film festivals and won over 20 awards. Her production company has produced films on environmental topics for clients including HHMedI Tangled Bank Studios, Nat Geo Learning, the Stanford Program on Water, Health & Development, the Clean Energy Transition Institute, Original Pursuit Inc. and numerous non-profit institutions. Her recent work includes a trilogy of short films addressing the shared extinction threat facing Southern Resident Killer Whales and Chinook salmon in the Salish Sea, produced in conjunction with Original Pursuit. She holds a B.A. from Yale University, an interdisciplinary MFA from Goddard College, and is currently a Fellow of the Salish Sea Institute at Western Washington University.
Nicolai Crane
Nicranium Media Productions utilizes the ancient storytelling techniques and top tier production and post production equipment to tell the stories that really matter. Founder Nic Crane attended film school at Brooks Institute of Film, after which he worked for 2 years on an academy award winning film, "Mighty Times: The Children's March" 2002-2004. Since then, he has been working professionally in post production for 18 years. His favorite form of film storytelling is documentaries.
Gabe Van Lelyveld
Gabe was the Director of Photography for both Call of the Orcas and Managed to Extinction. As a visual storyteller with a B.A. in American History and Political Economics working primarily in documentary film, his short and feature films have screened and won awards at film festivals locally, regionally and internationally. Gabe is a Port Townsend Film Festival alumni, and his 2015 feature film Mandarose won Best Narrative Feature at the Portland International Film Festival. He is also the owner of Whaleheart Productions, a full service video production company based in Port Townsend.