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Our People - Meet the Borneo Dream Team...
Our Management
Watersports Director
Email: billy@borneodream.com
Billy was born in Leicestershire, central England and spent most of his life there prior to spending the last two years working in the Seychelles.
After 16 years in IT he decided to follow his passion in life, scuba diving, and became a full time Diving Instructor. He has worked in the diving business for the past 5 years in the UK, Seychelles and now Sabah including setting up a successful dive operation in the UK.
Through working in the diving business, Billy has first hand experience of what helps to create a positive underwater experience (whether it be snorkelling or diving) and believes that many more can share the enjoyment and beauty of the underwater world. This can be achieved by providing the right experience for the right person - making it personal, enjoyable, relaxing and safe. Whether you are a non diver, a diver wanting a relaxing dive or looking for further challenges (via continued diver education or trying out more challenging dives) he will help ensure you have the best time whilst 'in the waters' off Sabah.
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Operations Director
Email: joanne@borneodream.com
Joanne was born in St. Helens, North West England and spent her childhood there before spending time in London, Leicestershire (central England) and working in Europe. She spent the last two years working in the Seychelles.
She previously spent 15 years working for a Global Clearing Bank. During this time Joanne has been involved in both launching new business and running the operations for established businesses. She left the banking world behind to follow her passion in life - scuba diving - and, along with her partner Billy, join the other team members to create Borneo Dream.
Joanne has has been diving all over the world and experienced different kinds of diving related holidays in numerous countries. Through her personal experiences she believes that the operations of a business (its people, processes and systems) must be created and delivered with the customer always in mind - so they help deliver that perfect customer experience. So from the first time you contact Borneo Dream by email to request information through to the end of your holiday experience provided by Borneo Dream, and beyond, she will ensure that each interaction with the team is positive one......and one you'll want to repeat again.
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Finance Director
Email: bev@borneodream.com
Born in Newbury, England and educated in Hertford, Bev is another member of the Borneo Dream Team with a finance background, having worked for a major UK clearing bank for 25 years. With experience in new business development in Africa, project management and financial planning.
She manages to combine a busy working day looking after our visitors with the demands of mother and social secretary for Joshua. In between times, she is an active PTA member of Kinabalu International school, studies interior design and enjoys singing, having played in a number of groups.
Bev believes the insights she gains from balancing a hectic work and family life help her to appreciate the value of free time. This is particularly evident in the way she approaches her Borneo Dream role, constantly challenging herself to creatively tailor and improve visitor experiences and ‘deliver the dream’.
Specialties:- Bev has her feet firmly on the ground and prefers being behind a desk to under the water! She is the ‘face’ of Borneo Dream and the person people are most likely to speak to or see when they make contact.
Marketing Director
Email: ron@borneodream.com
Ron was born and educated in the NE of England, but spent a large part of his life working in the Northampton area and then in continental Europe and Asia.
Personal interest in conservation and marine science provided the impetus for Ron to leave a long career in financial services and join the other team members to establish Borneo Dream.
Like many people, he has concerns about environmental damage and feels that businesses, alongside Governments and individuals, have an important role to play in nurturing and developing better practices. One of his ambitions for Borneo Dream is to make it a role model for other organisations by behaving responsibly and giving something back to the local environment and people. He is the architect of Borneo Dream’s ‘Coral Ambassadors’ programme and was involved from the outset in establishing the eco-tourism operation, together with WWF and Reefcare International, in Kudat on the Northern tip of Borneo. See below for more details of these schemes.
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Children’s Activities Director
Email: josh@borneodream.com
Joshua is a pupil at Kinabalu International School and divides his time between his studies and testing our trips for child suitability. He is a world authority on Kinabalu Adventure Park and has compiled a comprehensive list of things to do around the area, lecturing frequently (to all and sundry) on both subjects.
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It would not be possible to offer the range of services, or follow our demanding code of practice, without specialist help in some areas. A business is only as good as it’s people and we have chosen our advisors carefully to enable us to offer the best.
Marine Biology & Conservation Marine Turtles
Website: www.mrf-asia.org Email: nic@borneodream.com
Dr. Pilcher is the founder and Executive Director of the Marine Research Foundation, a non-profit agency established here in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, to carry out studies which lead to the conservation of marine resources throughout the SE Asian and Indian Ocean regions. He currently is working on projects in Sabah, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Qatar, Oman, Vietnam and Indonesia, to name a few.
Nick has a PhD in marine turtle conservation from Southern Cross University in Australia, and has been in Malaysia for the better part of the last fifteen years. He spent seven of those based in Kuching, Sarawak, where among other things, he published a book on Layang Layang and edited another on marine turtles of the Indio-Pacific.
Nick’s work on turtles has spanned much of the globe. Today he is the Co-Chair of the IUCN Marine Turtle Specialist Group, the world’s authority on sea turtle conservation and biology. He is married to a Sabahan, Carmen, and together they juggle the complex web of projects at the Foundation and the raising of their three children, Danielle, Francine and Leilana.
Marine Biology & Conservation Coral Reef Ecology & Management
Email: udo@borneodream.com
Udo was born in Hanau am Main, Germany, and studied in Hanau and Frankfurt before moving to Australia to complete a BSc in Marine Biology and then a postgraduate Diploma of Research Methods at James Cook University, Townsville.
His early professional career involved Crown-of-Thorns starfish research on the Great Barrier Reef where, following promotion to Scientific Programme Coordinator, he assumed responsiblity for all aspects of the programme.
Udo is currently the CEO of Reefcare International Pty Ltd (trading in Australia as Reefwatch Australia, Marine Environmental Consulting Services) and, since April 2005, has also been Scientific Director of the D’Arros Research Centre, D’Arros Island, Amirantes, Seychelles.
Reefcare is an organization dedicated to the conservation of coral reefs and Udo has undertaken many prestigious assignments for Governments and other authorities in Australia and the Seychelles.
He is the driving force behind the Reefcare International/WWF/Borneo Dream coalition to monitor and report on coral growth in the Kudat region following the establishment of the Tun Mustapha Marine Park. There is more detail on this project below.
PADI Course Director Instructor Training
Website: www.scubatuna.com Email: thien@borneodream.com
Thien's first view of the underwater world was through a swimming goggle on a pristine reef off the Refugee Camp at Pulau Bidong, Malaysia in 1980. At 10 years old, awaiting UNICEF to decide his future, little did he know that first glimpse under the sea will be a part of his life's passion.
Born in the former South Viet Nam and still fluent in Vietnamese, Thien escaped with his family among the "Boat People" to Malaysia. He iemigrated to the US in 1981 and grew up in California where he lived until 2001. A graduate of University of California - Santa Barbara, USA, Thien's professional life has been as a Store Manager for Gap Inc. and Business Development Manager for E-greetings Network Inc. (eGreetings.com).
Arriving in Phuket in 2001, he was attracted to the Andaman Sea for her tremendous underwater marine life, great local & international food, and the first class professional training facilities. Graduated from PADI Head Quarter in California, Thien was no stranger to the Instructor Development Course. By the summer of 2004, he had taught in 25 programs (over 300 candidates) before becoming a PADI Course Director.
Prior to making Scuba Diving his daily lifestyle, you could find him mountain biking, running marathons, stumbling through triathlons, and falling off his skis quite often while searching for that ultimate "adrenaline rush." Now, life for him is doing that divin' thingy... and, when he’s not in Borneo training potential instructors, loving that sunset everyday from the sand of Kata!
Underwater Photography & Videography
Email: simon@borneodream.com
Known affectionately to his friends and colleagues as “Simple”, Simon graduated from Aberdeen University with a BSc (Hons.) degree in Marine Zoology and was a leading figure in the first scientific research expedition to Pulau Layang Layang, Malaysia in the South China Sea. Having worked with the Sea Mammal Research Unit and British Antarctic Survey in the UK, he returned to Malaysia in 1997 to survey the entire coast and coral reefs of Sabah as well as run a turtle research programme.
Simon is currently Operations Director at Scubazoo, one of the premier underwater photography and videography organisations in the world, has dived extensively on many scientific and environmental assignments and has been involved in many of Scubazoo's broadcast television filming projects. These have led him across Southeast Asia to locations such as Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Maldives and Papua New Guinea. Simon assisted with the underwater logistics, planning and filming of both UK Survivor series in 2001 and 2002 as well as project managing the Canadian IMAX production, 'Sacred Planet' on Sipadan in 2002. As, underwater cameraman for Channel 5 UK & Animal Planet's "Great Ocean Adventures", with presenter Monty Halls, in both 2005 & 2006, Simon has filmed extensively all over the world and wracked up enough air miles to have flown round it over 6 times!
Over the years Simon has faced many unique and incredible situations whilst filming - wild saltwater crocodiles, South Africa's incredible "Sardine Run", great white sharks, giant octopus, wild dugongs & manatees, feeding dolphins, six gilled sharks, deep water wrecks and some of the worlds remotest sea mounts have all been covered. Simon has done over 2300 dives and is a qualified PADI & BSAC Assistant Instructor with TDI Nitrox, Extended Range and Rebreather Diver certifications, as well as hard hat and surface supply diving experience. His dream is to re-trace his ancestor's discovery of Enderby Land in Antarctica and compare their lives as old school whalers to his life as a modern day marine biologist/underwater camerman.
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Medical Advisor and Doctor on Call
Email: sam@borneodream.com
The rule of thumb in good planning is ‘work for the best, but plan for the worst’. With this in mind, Borneo Dream has engaged Dr Sam Donaldson to assist should an accident occur. Whilst the local medical services are excellent, there is no substitute for access to immediate medical help.
Sam was educated and completed her medical training in Australia. She has a personal interest in women’s’ health and infectious diseases and has lived Malaysia since 2004. For the first two and a half years, she was the sole doctor at the Sabah Family Planning Clinic, but she recently transferred to work for the Malaysian Government at a local hospital.
She has two children and enjoys diving, running, mountain-biking and traveling in Malaysia and Asia. Her husband is a hydraulic engineer working for a Danish company in Sabah.
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