AASR Interview with Bureo Skateboards' CEO David Stover

May 02, 2014, 09:34 PM

Environmental activist and Bureo skateboard's CEO David Stover and his partners, Ben R. Kneppers and Kevin J. Ahearn are shaking up the skateboard world with discarded fishing nets found in Chile and turning them into the raddest skateboards on the planet! They got $40,000 in funding help from Start-Up Chile, a government initiative aimed at jump-starting technological innovation in the South American country, $10,000 from a venture accelerator based at Northeastern University in Boston and additional funding from the Marine Conservation Action Fund. With that and a whole lot of creative genius, they are changing the way people think and ride! ( David is in the middle, Ken left, Ben right)