An entrepreneur with a passion for exploration, Guillermo Söhnlein has successfully launched ten for-profit ventures and four nonprofit organizations focused on technology innovation, space commercialization, and ocean exploration.
An expedition leader, submersible pilot, and scuba diver, as co-founder and CEO of OceanGate (2009-2013), Söhnlein led six ocean exploration expeditions with crewed submersibles in Puget Sound, Monterey, Catalina Island and Miami.
Söhnlein currently serves as co-founder of Humans2Venus, a space-focused venture studio, and co-founder of Space Bridge Partners, a global finance firm for space missions. He is an advisor to E2MC Ventures, a space-focused seed-stage venture capital firm, and Chairman of the Mamoni Valley Preserve, a rainforest conservation organization.
Söhnlein founded or co-founded the Space Angels Network, the Exploration Institute’s Sea-Space Initiative, the Space Frontier Foundation’s International Association of Space Entrepreneurs and the OceanGate Foundation. Admitted to The Explorers Club in 2012, he also previously served as Chairman of the Marine Technology Society’s Ocean Exploration Committee. A former officer in the U.S. Marine Corps, Söhnlein earned his A.B. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley and his J.D. from the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco.