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As vice-president of Investec Real Estate since 1994, Mr. Eckberg plans environmentally sensitive residential and commercial developments in California. He also has extensive trust banking experience with the Bank of America.
Mr. Eckberg has advocated society's conversion to renewable energy technologies for nearly 30 years. As a director of Get Oil Out!, an internationally recognized NGO originating from the 1969 oil spill in Santa Barbara, California, Mr. Eckberg sought greater transparency regarding the energy sector and controls over off-shore oil development in the Santa Barbara Channel.
Additional NGO activities by Mr. Eckberg include 13 years as a director (three years as president) of Santa Barbara's Community Environmental Council, a prominent think tank on recycling. Mr. Eckberg has also been a director of Santa Barbara's Sustainability Project, a non-profit organization that raises community awareness regarding green building design, land use and resource issues.
As a member of the Dean's Council of the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at the University of California Santa Barbara, Mr. Eckberg introduced the Company to the school, which earlier this year welcomed Sea Breeze as a corporate partner. Mr. Eckberg received bachelor degrees in Economics and Political Science from UCSB in 1970. | 