Jack Garrett - A Fish out of Water

Jack Garrett is a young entrepreneur and inventor who currently serves as the Managing Director of G3 Marine, a family-owned business dedicated to developing innovative and conservation minded products in the marine and water-sports industries.  After graduating (with departmental honors) from the University of California at Los Angeles with a degree in Marine Biology, Jack worked on the Great Barrier Reef as a SCUBA Divemaster before returning home to work on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic as an Emergency Medical Technician.  An avid traveler, Jack has traveled to nearly 30 countries and has studied in Italy, Ireland and Tahiti, where he performed research on fish and see urchin herbivory along with the impacts of dredging on coral reefs.  Jack is a named inventor and utility patent holder, and is currently developing an app, along with a cloud based platform, to gamify fishing while also encouraging marine conservation. In doing so, Jack has developed skills in building business model canvases, creating pitch decks, designing workable UI interfaces, and learning how basic CAD functions work in order to develop and 3D print relevant hardware so that he can rapidly prototype ideas.