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Introducing Skipper David Rose
Born in Auckland, 42-year-old David has lived near the coast for most of his life. Today he lives in the seaside suburb of Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand with his wife Leanne and two children, Georgia, and Levi. From his house, he regularly strolls to the beach to check the wind and yachts racing on the Hauraki Gulf. That is of course if he’s not out there himself. After leaving school, David became involved in the music industry and in 1997 formed Satellite Media. As CEO, David utilized his natural talent for leadership, organization and entrepreneurship to build Satellite Media into one of New Zealand’s premier television, publishing, online and mobiledigital content specialists. In 2004 David was responsible for developing and launching New Zealand’s first music digital download site and in 2006 David won the most prestigious award possible in New Zealand “best Entertainment Programme” at the Qantas Television Awards, a true acknowledgement of his achievements in the industry over the previous decade. In 2005 David graduated from Icehouse (The Innovation Centre For Entrepeneurship) at Auckland University and was elected by his peers to sit on the Alumni Advisory Board. But it was after co creating and then Executive Producing a reality television series “The Ultimate Challenge” about sailing which began in 2003 and lead directly to David’s first blue water sail on Lion New Zealand in the 2006 Auckland Fiji Ocean Race that David found a new obsession – open ocean racing. In early 2007 David divested his interests in Satellite to pursue both new professional opportunities in the emerging digital media industry, spend more quality time with his family and personal challenges. David subsequently bought a 9 metre race yacht and competed in many harbour and coastal races. However, inspired by the desire for a challenge of enormous proportions, the opportunity to do something that very few have done, to inspire others to reach for their dreams and ultimately to educate people regarding plastics in the ocean David decided to seize the day and develop an education programme now called Project Plastic Soup and the awareness campaign by racing a Class 40 in both local competition and global double handed offshore racing . The intense pressure and sheer drama of double- handed racing appeals to David’s love of adventure and challenge. Throughout the campaign, David will be collaborating with conservation groups and research organizations to raise awareness about the global proliferation of plastic debris in the ocean – the so-called phenomenon of “plastic soup”
