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 the nationally distributed programs The National Parent Quiz, Releasing Dolphins, The Rock & Treating Addiction for PBS and Deep Diving for National Geographic Explorer. His environmental film 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 seen 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 has been honored in the receipt of 4 Emmy Awards, 5 National Telly Awards, 4 National Communicator Awards, an Aurora Best of Show Award and numerous news, education and public relations awards in the states of Maine and Florida.

Bob is also an avid outdoorsman, kayaker and scuba diver. He has over 22 years of diving experience and holds advanced open water and cave diving certifications from YMCA, NAUI, NOAA, NSS and NACD. His dive experiences are varied and include dives in the cold depths of the Gulf of Maine, the cave systems of Florida, Mexico and 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 Rollins College.

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Bill Belleville

Bill Belleville is an award-winning author and documentary filmmaker 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.

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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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David Strickland

David M. Strickland was born and raised in Daytona Beach, Florida. Growing up, he enjoyed fishing and camping with his friends. He graduated from Emory University with a degree in history and later earned a graduate banking degree from Rutgers University in New Jersey and completed the PMD program at the Harvard Business School. He returned to Florida in late 1979.

In corporate banking, he set up regional operational sites throughout Florida, learning a great deal about the state and its incredible diversity. In 1998, David moved to Jacksonville to help the owners of Alliance Mortgage Company create First Alliance Bank, which changed its name to EverBank in 2004.

David is very active in the Jacksonville community, serving as Board Chair of Habitat for Humanity of Jacksonville, Past President of the North Florida Land Trust, Trustee of the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce, Advisory Board member of the Coggin College of UNF, Treasurer of the Youth Crisis Center Foundation and Board member of the St. Johns River Aliance.

In addition to his local interests in the environment, education and community rehabilitation, David has been a Trustee of Stetson University for 12 years and for the Whitney Marine Science Laboratory of the University of Florida for 10 years. He is married, has three grown children, and resides in Ponte Vedra Beach.

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Bryan Dreisbach

Bryan Dreisbach is an eighth generation Floridian and has lived in Florida his entire life. He attended Edgewater High School in Orlando and the University of Florida in Gainesville where he earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in accounting.

Bryan has been involved in the outdoors his whole life through many fishing, hiking, camping, hunting, canoeing and other outdoor activities. He started as a young fisherman and learned much about Florida and the outdoors through boy scouts where he earned the highest rank of Eagle Scout. Bryan's interest in Florida and the outdoors continues to be a large part of his life and he describes his participation in fishing as a true passion.

Bryan is a Certified Public Accountant and a Partner of Franklin Street Insurance Services, a Franklin Street Financial Partners company, where he focuses his efforts on real estate, commercial property and casualty insurance and the finance and accounting for FSFP.

He is a member of Coastal Conservation Association, Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants, The Founders Society, The Tampa Club, Florida Tax Watch and the Tampa Bay Real Estate Investment Council. Bryan resides in Tampa with his wife, Lisa and their daughter, Virginia.

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