About WildEarth

Will has a long pedigree of managing engineering projects around the world, but it was his work in wildlife conservation that provided the catalyst for him to join WildEarth. The success of his Leopard research project led to him being appointed as a visiting research fellow at Reading University and a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. In 2007 he created a safari travel company to raise funds for wildlife conservation which has subsequently won world awards for responsible travel. In 2010 he invested in WildEarth and is currently managing all operations and staff, as well as overseeing our expansion into new regions and building a new state of the art Mission Control centre to be the hub of all global operations.

Dr Baris Serifsoy is Co-Founder of Enodo Capital, a London-based multi-family office advising entrepreneurial Ultra High Net Worth (UHNW) families. Prior to setting up his own firm, he worked at UBS for 14 years. As a Managing Director, he was responsible for the Global Family Office, UHNW Emerging Markets and Financial Intermediaries teams in the UK and Jersey. Before joining UBS, Baris was a research assistant at the Goethe University Frankfurt and a visiting scholar at the Wharton School. He published papers on global stock exchanges in peer-reviewed academic journals and was a regular media commentator. Baris holds a Doctoral degree in Finance from Goethe University Frankfurt and the Diplom Kaufmann degree from the University of Regensburg, as well as an MBA degree. He has completed the Chartered Financial Analyst and Financial Risk Manager programmes.

He began his career as a lecturer of law at the University of Natal in 2001 and held it for two years. He served as a consultant of Joint United Nations Programme on Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome in Geneva from 2002 to 2004. In 2004, he took the position of a lecturer at Witwatersrand University. Kevin served his 7 year term as South Africa’s Deputy Public Protector from December 2012. The public protector’s office is one of South Africa’s critical constitutional institutions tasked to investigate officials’ conduct in public administration. It mainly investigates impropriety and corruption. Adv. Malunga also served as a State Law Adviser: Policy Coordination and Monitoring at the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development, with his responsibilities including the Traditional Courts Bill, the Discussion Document on the Transformation of the Judiciary, drafting legislation, formulating policy, researching and preparing speeches for the Minister. Adv. Malunga was also a part-time researcher/consultant to UNAIDS on international and domestic laws affecting HIV vaccine trialists in Ethiopia. In December 2010 he was appointed by the Minister of Higher Education and Training Dr Blade Nzimande to serve as a Board member of the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) for a period of five years.

Michael received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia, USA) in 1992, followed by postdoctoral studies at the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California, USA). His diverse research efforts have included understanding visual perception in developing brains as well as how individual brain cells receive and process information. From 2015 – 2019, he was Provost of the University of Southern California, its second highest academic officer. He currently holds the rank of Professor in the USC Department of Biological Sciences.