our team

Founder / CEO

Tim Taylor is an internationally recognized and awarded ocean explorer, advocate, and founder of Tiburon Subsea. He has spent over thirty years in the marine industry advancing innovative diving technologies within the scientific, archaeological, and oceanographic fields. He has been profiled in the London Financial Times, The New York Times, and Bloomberg News, and he appears regularly on FOX, CNBC, BBC, CBC, and CNN as an ocean technology and robotics expert.
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CTO

RB has more than 30 years of engineering and project management experience in marine and industrial environments, ranging from waste to energy power plants to state-of-the-art marine robotics. He has managed 100 employees and tens of millions of dollars in operational, contractual, and capital project budgets. He has logged thousands of hours as the Lead Operator and Maintenance Technician for offshore and inshore geophysics, inspection, and search and recovery projects utilizing ROVs and AUVs.
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Communications Director

Christine is a Tiburon Subsea founding team member and prominent figure in ocean and polar exploration, team leadership, women’s empowerment, and environmental advocacy. As co-founder of international adventure company Mad Dog Expeditions, she achieved remarkable success in brand building and securing licensing, advertising, sponsorship agreements with prestigious companies and impactful environmental collaborations with Casio, Japan, DENTSU, Patagonia NA, and Red Fox NA.
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Executive Assistant

Britney holds an MBA from University of Maryland and has extensive managerial experience in the nonprofit sector. Her work with executive level partners and the marketing and communications teams provides Tiburon Subsea with metric focused goals and support. She maintains our daily operations and communications between our three office teams.
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Advisor

Jerry is a seasoned maritime engineer and entrepreneur with over two decades of leadership in naval engineering, subsea robotics, and defense innovation. A retired U.S. Coast Guard Commander, he managed programs ranging from cutter engineering to the Navy’s Knifefish UUV at Bluefin Robotics. In 2018, he co-founded Dive Technologies, leading its growth and eventual acquisition by Anduril, where he served as Head of Finance for Anduril Maritime. Jerry holds advanced engineering degrees from the University of Michigan and an MBA from UVA’s Darden School of Business.
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Advisor

Julian Tempelsman brings over a decade of experience from Silicon Valley’s leading technology companies and a proven record as a startup founder. At Google, he helped combat financial fraud on Google Wallet, spam and phishing on Gmail, and abuse across Drive, Calendar, and other core products. In 2015, he co-founded Smyte, a trust and safety platform acquired by Twitter in 2018, where he went on to lead engineering and data science teams focused on product health and integrity. Julian is also the Co-Founder and CTO of Octave, a context engine for go-to-market (GTM) teams that helps organizations synthesize customer data into actionable insight. As an advisor to Tiburon Subsea, he draws on his entrepreneurial experience and technical expertise to help scale innovation and operational intelligence.
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