From Surfing to Protecting Our Oceans with Vipe Desai

A brand strategist with a purpose, Vipe Desai is an award-winning executive and thought-leader.

With more than 30 years of marketing, branding and leadership experience along with 20 years of governance serving on a dozen boards, Vipe has a proven track record for leading organizational change, brand re-positioning and process change within the boardroom and a passion for inspiring, mobilizing, and empowering support for underserved communities.

On October 6th, 2021, a pipeline failure sent at least 126,000 gallons of oil into the Pacific off the coast of Orange County, creating a 13-square-mile slick. Dead fish and birds washed ashore in some areas.

On Monday, October 18th, Vipe testified in front of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources joint oversight hearing titled, “Southern California Oil Leak: Investigating the Immediate Effects on Communities, Businesses, and the Environment.

Vipe talks about the immediate and long term affects of these oil spills, if these spills are reversible, whether the state of California will move away from fossil fuels in favor of renewable energy, why it's so important for the community, businesses, and the environmental groups to work together, and how this specific ecological disaster is personal for him.

He tells me how he opened up a surf shop right after graduation, his love affair with surfing, why he decided to write a children's book focusing on protecting our oceans, and the one lesson he's learned through it all.

Please check out his recent TESTIMONY VIDEO: https://lnkd.in/gXGWTTNX