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ABOUT

Grow Oyster Reefs LLC (GROW) is a woman owned business founded in 2015 that possesses patent-pending, scalable concrete reef building substrate products that dramatically increase the productivity of oyster reefs, improving water quality and aquatic ecosystem services including carbon sequestration and shoreline retention on a global scale. 

GROW is also developing coral reef restoration products for scientific research in the lab, for the coral nursery and transplanted in the wild — building blocks for coastal ecosystem regeneration.

GROW operates a manufacturing facility in Norfolk, Virginia, a design and prototyping studio in Charlottesville, Virginia, and a mobile marketing unit covering the entire US coastline.

PEOPLE

Evelyn Tickle; CEO, Founder, Inventor — More than 20 years of experience in the concrete fabrication industry. Invented GROW Oyster Reefs’ biophilic concrete mix. Educated as an Architect, with a specific interest in biomimicry. Evelyn’s concrete oyster reef restoration products have established GROW as an internationally recognized leader in the field of coastal resilience. She is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, was selected as an MIT Solver 2019, and a RISE Innovation Fellow in 2020.

Ben Willauer; Acting Chief Financial Officer — Over 15 years working with high-growth, high-impact ventures to achieve scalable solutions to intractable problems. Past Chief Development Officer for Whole Oceans and General Partner of a 3(c)1 hedge fund focused on corporate governance reform. Founder of The Hurricane Island Center for Science and Leadership. Current Board Treasurer & Chair of Finance Committee at The Nature Conservancy, Maine. 

Andy Belling; Acting Chief Production Officer — Over 30 years of progressive Management, Operations, Engineering, and Quality Control experience in the manufacturing of technical products including expertise in new business development, currently with Siemens Energy. 

Kirk Conard; Production Manager — Over ten years of concrete fabrication and mold making experience.


GROW products are GROW Intellectual Property and are protected legally. No product or image may be copied or reproduced without permission from GROW Founder.

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