Cuna del Mar's Donald Grant: "We're going to be much more present"
Cuna del Mar's new Managing Partner is ready to prove that aquaculture can be done in a way that works for the ocean, the people and the planet.
Cuna del Mar appointed Donald Grant to spearhead the "next era of regenerative aquaculture."
When announcing his appointment as its new Managing Partner, Cuna del Mar said that Donald Grant was taking the helm at a crucial moment, when the impact investment fund is focusing its efforts on expanding its pioneering work and taking on a more active role as a global advocate for regenerative aquaculture. In conversation with WeAreAquaculture, Grant confirms this. "We're going to be much more present," he tells us.
After fifteen years as pioneers in warm-water regenerative aquaculture, figuring out how to do it well in an economically viable way, the time has come for the fund to start sharing its knowledge and experience to help others follow in its footsteps. "We want to be an enabler, and we want to be part of helping to transform aquaculture in a more environmentally and socially sustainable way," Donald Grant claims.
Ready to democratize their knowledge
As Christy Walton, founder of Cuna del Mar and its parent company Innovaciones Alumbra (iAlumbra), stated last month, under Grant's leadership, the fund seeks to transition from a pioneer to a global catalyst, ready to democratize this knowledge and accelerate technology, practices, and models to support coastal economies.
Having previously held the position of Vice President of the impact investment fund, the new Managing Partner knows well why the time is now. "I think now we're at a place where we can speak with a level of knowledge and experience that is going to be very beneficial to others who are starting down similar roads to us," he says.