Board of Directors

Bob Giguere

Bob Giguere is an award-winning Producer with over 27 years of television experience, including Documentary and Current Events programming. His credits include Nationally distributed programs: The National Parent Quiz, Releasing Dolphins, The Rock & Treating Addiction for PBS and Deep Diving for National Geographic Explorer. His environmental resume includes, Nature in Danger, Releasing Dolphins and Wekiva: Legacy or Loss? for PBS and In Search of Xanadu and Conch Cowboys for BBG Productions and The Florida Channel. Bob’s camera work has been scene on PBS, National Geographic, The Discovery Channel, Women’s Entertainment & Starz TV.

Bob has won numerous Emmy and Telly awards for his social and environmental documentary work. His work have been honored by his peers with the receipt of 4 Emmy Awards, 5 National Telly Awards, 4 national Communicator Awards, an Aurora Award Best of Show and numerous news, education and public relations awards in the state of Maine and Florida.

Bob is also an avid outdoorsman, kayaker and scuba diver. He has over 22 years of diving experience and holds certifications advanced open water and cave diving certifications from YMCA, NAUI, NOAA & NSS & NACD. His dive experiences are varied and include dives in the cold depths of the Gulf of Maine, the cave systems of Florida, Mexico & Bermuda and the warm waters of the Caribbean. He was the principal Underwater and Topside Videographer for a saturation dive mission in Key Largo, FL for National Geographic. In addition he and his camera have made several forays into Florida’s caves, springs and rivers, including a Discovery Channel Online expedition about the St. John’s River.

Educated at the University of Maine, Bob has made Central Florida his home for the past 18 years. He is the founder and of both bGenesis, LLC and co-founder of Equinox Documentaries, Inc. He has taught as an adjunct Instructor for the University of Maine, the University of Central Florida and for Rollins College.

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Bill Belleville

Bill Belleville is an award winning author and documentary film maker living in Sanford, Florida. His critically-acclaimed non-fiction book, "River of Lakes: A Journey on Florida¹s St. Johns River" received the Michael J. Shaara award for Excellence in Writing for the year 2000. He has authored three other books, including "Losing It All to Sprawl: How Progress Ate My Cracker Landscape", named one of the best books of the year by the Library Journal. His feature articles have appeared in Oxford America, Salon.com, Sports Afield, Sierra, Fast Company, and the New York Times Syndicate, among others. He has worked as a writer/researcher on several Discovery Channel expeditions to the Galapagos, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic, and co-produced and scripted three Florida PBS documentaries, all of which won national awards. He was named environmental writer of the year by the Florida Audubon Society and the Florida Wildlife Federation. His essays have appeared in the book- length anthologies "Salon.com's Wanderlust" and "Adrenaline 2000: The Best Stories of Adventure and Survival." He has been a featured speaker on C-Span Books, and at UF, UCF, Rollins College, Emory University, and was Writer in Residence at USF in St. Pete, Florida in 2005.

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Teri Sopp

Teresa J. “Teri” Sopp is a criminal defense attorney with offices in Nassau County, Florida. Teri has been practicing law in northeast Florida for twenty-eight years; for the last sixteen years, Teri has had her own private practice specializing in the defense of criminal cases. Teri is one of just nine board certified criminal trial lawyers in practice in northeast Florida.

Teri, a graduate of Florida State University College of Law, got involved with Equinox Documentaries, Inc., after meeting Bill Belleville and hearing about his plans for the film, In Marjorie's Wake. Teri has served on the board of Equinox since hosting a fundraiser for the project in 2003.

Teri has a great interest in the outdoors, and often can be found on her boat in the waters of Fernandina Beach, where she lives. Teri is involved in the Amelia Book Island Festival, and has in the past been active in Rotary and the Junior League. She is currently the President of the Nassau County Bar Association.

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Clay Henderson

Clay Henderson practices as an environmental consultant. He is Chief Operating Officer of H&K Conservation Solutions LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Holland & Knight Consulting which specializes in private conservation services. He was admitted to practice law in the state of Florida in 1980. He received his BA degree from Stetson University and his J.D. from Cumberland Law School in Birmingham, Alabama.

Mr. Henderson has long been associated with environmental policy in Florida. He is President Emeritus of Florida Audubon Society, served on the Constitution Revision Commission and sponsored the Conservation Amendments which were ratified by the voters in 1998. He co-authored the Save Our Everglades constitutional amendments ratified in 1996. He developed the first county endangered lands acquisition program, helped launch Preservation 2000, and Florida Forever which are the nation’s premier conservation programs.

Mr. Henderson’s public service includes election to two terms on the Volusia County Council with a year as Chairman. He has received gubernatorial appointments as Chairman of Florida Greenways Commission, Chairman of Florida Pollution Prevention Council, Florida Communities Trust, Property Rights Study Commission, Administrative Procedure Act Review Commission, Save the Manatee Committee, and Constitution Revision Commission. Other public service includes the East Central Florida Regional Planning Council, Chairman of Volusia County Water Authority and Governor’s Council for a Sustainable Florida.

In the community, Mr. Henderson currently serves on the board of directors of the Florida International Festival, Citizens for a Scenic Florida, Council for a Sustainable Florida and the Board of Advisors of the Trust for Public Land. He has served on the boards of Florida Audubon Society, Florida Trust for Historic Preservation, Florida Land Trust Association, and Save the Manatee Club. He has received numerous public service awards from groups including The Nature Conservancy, Florida Wildlife Federation, Sierra Club, Florida Audubon Society, Museum of Arts and Sciences, Stetson University, and League of Women Voters.

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Leslie Poole

Leslie Kemp Poole is a fulltime mother of two, freelance writer, student, and teacher. She was a newspaper reporter with four different papers, ending with the Orlando Sentinel. At the Sentinel, she covered many topics including an award-winning series on the environment and growth management.

She continues to focus on freelance writing about environmental and community issues. Currently, she is an adjunct professor in the Environmental Studies Department at Rollins College in Winter Park, FL and is a PhD student in History at the University of Florida.

Leslie has been married for 25 years to Michael Poole, an investment banker, and she is active in several groups including the board of the Hamilton Holt School at Rollins College.

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Bill Randolph

Bill Randolph, CPSM, is the Director of Marketing and Operations for JCR Consulting a small Land Planning and Landscape Architecture firm based in Central Florida. He has spent the past 18 years of his career working for planning and engineering firms that provide services solely within the state of Florida. His prior experience encompasses eight years of active duty military service in the U.S. Air Force and a year with Rockwell International working on publications for aviation related programs.

At the community level, he is in his fourth term on the Lakes Advisory Board for the city of Maitland, Florida. During his first six years on the board, he was instrumental in helping formulate and implement the city's progressive 10-year Stormwater-Lakes Management Plan aimed at protecting and arresting the impacts to 22 community lakes. Bill has also served on local and state boards for Florida Public Relations Association and the state board for the Florida Planning and Zoning Association.

As a volunteer he has worked on two major community redevelopment projects. Bill coordinated the creation of a master plan and the implementation process to improve the Audubon Center for Birds of Prey in Maitland, and he assisted in the development and implementation of a residential campus master plan, completed by JCR, for Great Oaks Village, a children's residential foster care facility in Orlando.

Bill holds a Bachelor's degree in Photojournalism and a Master of Arts degree in Business Management. He continues to hone his photography skills through free-lance assignments. While serving on active duty, Bill won numerous photo awards for his images of military life.

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David Strickland

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Bryan Dreisbach

Bryan Dreisbach

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