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Personel

Poseidon Group Holdings
Colin Shepherd
Founder and CEO

Colin has an 18 year background in finance with a leaning towards venture capital. He has been involved on the finance/management side and on the operations side of several shipwreck salvage projects since the mid 2000s. His exploits in this field have taken him to the Philippines, Indonesia, Ecuador and the US among other places. He has witnessed some spectacular discoveries in the field as well as learned from many mistakes he has viewed first hand. His experience has lead him to develop and refine excellent instincts in the field as well as a vast network of valuable human resources upon which he can draw in order to establish and nurture superior projects. Colin is Canadian and graduated from McGill University with a degree in Economics. He resides in Tokyo with his wife and three sons.

Fred Dobberphul
Executive Adviser

Fred graduated from the University of Hamburg as an Oceanographer. He also holds several advanced diving qualifications including diplomas as a Scientific Diving Instructor and a Class 2 Diving Instructor from the World Confederation of Subaquatic Activities. Fred has lived in Indonesia for the past 18 years where he has worked as a diver, excavation leader, archaeologist and survey professional in several successful shipwreck salvage projects including the Intan Wreck, the Maranei Wreck, the Tang Wreck, the Cirebon Wreck and the H.M.S. Forbes Wreck. He worked for the European Institute of Underwater Archeaology (EIOUWA) on the excavation of Alexandra and Heraklion in Egypt. He continues to be the representative of EIOUWA in South East Asia. Fred has an extensive network of contacts in government and among the fishermen which are indispensible for conducting underwater salvage activities in Indonesia. He currently works with Nautik Recovery Asia, a valuable partner of Poseidon Group.

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Mr. “X”

Mr. X has done extensive work with the late Robert Curtis who helped President Marcos excavate billions in gold in the 1970s and 80s. The various escapades of Robert Curtis are well documented in the book “Gold Warriors” by Sterling Seagraves (whom Mr. X helped write). Curtis later began his own research and operations in which Mr. X was involved but they were plagued by interference from CIA and other groups. Mr. X learned some very valuable lessons from these experiences and prefers to remain largely anonymous now. He was recently interviewed during an episode of “Lost Gold of World War 2”, a History Channel series which premiered this year. His face and identity were not revealed at his request. Due to his long association with Curtis, author Sterling Seagraves, and others, he has established an extensive knowledge of many sites and how to properly excavate them. He has personally explored over 100 sites, some completed and some untouched. He has several under his stewardship now. Poseidon Group was able to secure an interest in two of these sites, both of which were previously partially excavated in the recent past proving they are real and viable. We are extremely excited to be involved and look forward to their conclusion. We plan to do more sites together in the future after the successful conclusion of our first target. The picture depicted here is a rock which was discovered on one of the sites. It is clearly a Japanese diagram with information on the burials.

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