DIRECTOR

 

Robert W.G. Grosz, Esq.
Chairman & President

In December of 2005, Robert W.G. Grosz (formerly, Robert W. Gordon) graduated from the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, California, USA, having earned both a Juris Doctor degree and a Global Legal Studies certificate.   Also, while studying law there he founded the Admiralty and Ocean Law Society (2004), and won the Thomas Jefferson, CALI and Witkin awards in Admiralty Law (2004), Securities Regulation (2004), and Law of the Sea (2005).  In February of 2007, Mr. Grosz passed, on his first attempt, the bar examination of the State Bar of California, and therefore expects soon to be sworn in to practice in international environmental law, admiralty law, and ocean law.  Additionally, Mr. Grosz is a member of the American Bar Association, and is registered and active in its International Law section, Environment, Energy & Resources section, and Science and Technology Law section.  Moreover, Mr. Grosz submitted a request to the Solicitor-General of the Republic of Kiribati for information pertaining to becoming sworn in to practice law there as a barrister and solicitor.

In 2000, under the federal laws of Canada, he founded The Matryx Corporation as a private holding company to license, develop and fabricate his U.S. patent pending construction system comprising modular and reusable elements, and featuring a post and beam frame with panels, to erect structures in remote areas using unskilled labor.

In 1982, he graduated from The American University in Washington, D.C., from which he earned a Bachelors Degree in Science with a major in Business Administration and a focus in finance.  In the course of his studies he conducted independent field research on several atolls in the Republic of Kiribati, Central Pacific Ocean.

In 1980, under the federal laws of Canada, he founded Empyrean International Limited as a private holding company, and the Empyrean International Eleemosynary as a nonprofit corporation.  For over 26 years these affiliated entities advocated economic and social development projects in Kiribati.  Furthermore, he has been an avid sailor and SCUBA diver since 1970, US licensed private pilot since 1978, and an amateur radio operator (VE7JEW) since 1985, all of which are useful on atolls in the equatorial Pacific.


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