Andrew Snowhite - Co-founder
Andrew Snowhite is co-founder of Azure Worldwide, a strategic environmental design, development and marketing company. His business partner is Philippe Cousteau, son of Philippe Cousteau Sr., and the grandson of Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau. Andrew is responsible for the company's day to day operations and has managed projects such as work on a large-scale eco-resort in Costa Rica, master planning environmentally-themed entertainment attractions in Singapore and island-wide thought-leadership consulting in Curacao. Through Azure Worldwide he has developed a strategic alliance with the University of Virginia, where he is an OpenGrounds Fellow, focusing on innovation and the environment and works closely with them on the ongoing development of the UVA Bay Game, an interactive and cutting-edge agent-based simulation of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
Complimenting his work with Azure Worldwide, Andrew provides a variety of consulting and advisory services to the oceans-education non-profit organization EarthEcho International. This has included developing a relationship with the Vans Warped Tour which is one of the largest and longest running national summer concert tours and providing subject matter expertise on the creation of a coral reef-themed episode of the PBS cartoon series Curious George.
Prior to co-founding Azure Worldwide, Andrew was an entertainment industry executive and consultant providing strategy, marketing and business development services to a variety of entertainment and technology companies and brands. He was Executive Vice President of Business Development and Sales at Musictoday, an industry-leading Web services, marketing and fulfillment organization (now owned by LiveNation). During his time at Musictoday he worked with organizations including AOL, MTV, Universal Music Group and the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts and with artists such as the Rolling Stones, Tim McGraw, Madonna, Metallica, the Jerry Garcia Estate and Wynton Marsalis.
In addition to his professional work, over the past twenty years Andrew has participated in field and laboratory research on the ecology of Indo-Pacific reef fish and sharks with Dr. Eugenie Clark, a world-renowned scientist known as the "Shark Lady." His work has been acknowledged in journals such as National Geographic Science and Exploration and Environmental Biology of Fishes and he has done fieldwork around the world in places such as Papua New Guinea, Palau, Thailand, Egypt, Mexico and the Solomon Islands.
Andrew is an accomplished SCUBA diver and underwater photographer. He was the Grand Prize Winner of the 2001 Bonaire Dive Festival Underwater Photography Contest and was highlighted in Scuba Diving magazine's October 2001 article titled "How to Win a Photo Contest."
Andrew received a BA in Environmental Science from the University of Virginia and was a National Science Scholar.