Adam Englund, Euphlotea's President, brings three decades of environmental activism, visionary engineering, and transportation consulting to his position. Englund's inspiration for floating ocean cities was born at the Oceanic Institute in Waimanalo, Hawaii, where, in 1971, "Hawaii's Floating Cities Program" caught his imagination. Eight years later Englund wrote his International Law thesis at Cambridge University on the jurisdictional and administrative issues raised by artificial islands and floating cities.

Englund's vision of ocean development driven by environmental concerns embraces both the inevitability of open ocean colonization by humans and the consequent need for enlightened regulation.

During San Diego's search for a site for a new international airport, Englund realized that the time for the founding of Euphlotea was upon him.

"We have reached that critical moment in time when real estate values globally, but critically in the San Diego region - both in terms of tangible dollars and in terms of environmental preservation and quality of life have exceeded the costs of locating an international airfield in the open ocean," says Englund. "Now, the economic mandate - the demand - for a world class airport facility has intersected with the existing, practical and cost effective technologies available to build and operate the ocean-based facility - the esupply."

Englund's law practice emphasizes transactions in entertainment law, intellectual property general business and estate planning.

In Los Angeles, from 1980 through the mid '90s he also was a leader of environmentally sound transportation initiatives through both public agencies and private organizations.

Englund lives with his wife, Victoria and daughter, Arielle in Encinitas. A former mountain bike racer, he now enjoys surfing, running on and cleaning up the beach.