Big Blue moonshot – Terry Tamminen compares AltaSea’s San Pedro warehouse to Steve Jobs’ garage, only bigger
by Elka Worner The architect of some of California’s groundbreaking climate legislation plans to convert a 35-acre campus at the Port of Los Angeles into a premier ocean research, and start-up incubator for the ocean-based blue economy. “We are to the blue economy what Silicon Valley was to information technology in terms of innovation,” said AltaSea CEO Terry Tamminen, who took the helm of the non-profit in January. It isn’t the first time officials have touted the job-generating potential of the public-private institute, which was launched in an abandoned warehouse in 2014. “AltaSea is going to be our Google here in the harbor area,” Los Angeles City Councilman Joe Buscaino said at the time. But progress stalled, fundraising fell through, and former CEO Tim McOsker left to run for Los Angeles City Council in the upcoming November election. Last year, Tamminen came in as a consultant to “refresh the business plan” and help with the transition. The environmental activist not only impressed the board with his expertise in marine conservation, climate change and renewable energy, but his fundraising prowess as well. He was seen as the shot of adrenaline AltaSea needed, and was…
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