Phone: 213-626-6600
Email:
robgrosz@atollinstitute.org
Robert W.G. Grosz (formerly, Robert
W. Gordon) (age 53),
graduated in December of 2005 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. As a student there he
founded the Admiralty & Ocean Law Society, and earned
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 wrote for the first time and passed the
bar examination of the
State Bar of California.
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.