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About Azuros

Investing in the Future — Azuros Connects Finance with Impact.

About Azuros

A Global Platform for Local Impact — Driving Blue Economy Growth.

No island or coastal developing nation should be held back by a lack of capital in the face of climate vulnerability. Azuros exists to pioneer sovereign-scale blue economy finance – de-risking and structuring capital into investable instruments that build competitiveness, resilience and inclusive growth for the nations the global financial system too often overlooks.

Our purpose — To pioneer sovereign-scale finance for the blue economy - empowering island and coastal nations to deliver the transformative projects their economies need to thrive.

Our mission — Azuros connects project sponsors with capital through financial innovation and technology - to finance, de-risk and deliver blue economy projects that build resilient, inclusive economies.

Our vision — A world where climate vulnerability is no longer a barrier to capital, and every island and coastal nation has the sovereign-scale finance to build its own resilient future.

Our focus is island and coastal developing nations from the Atlantic to the Pacific — the communities that steward the ocean and stand to gain most from a working blue economy.

The name comes from two roots: azur — blue as the ocean — and ~os, the Aegean suffix for an island.

The team spans the United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark, Grenada, and Jamaica, with skills across blue economy, blue finance, ocean-based renewable energy, entrepreneurship, venture capital, philanthropy, and applied AI.

Azuros is registered in London (Kingston Upon Thames) and in St. George's, Grenada. We are currently self-funded and actively seeking investors both for the platform itself and for the projects on it.

The team

Operators and builders across finance, technology and the blue economy.

The Hon. Walter H. Roban, JP

Chairman · Co-founder

The Hon. Walter H. Roban, JP, is Chairman of Azuros and the former Deputy Premier and Minister of Home Affairs of Bermuda. Across nearly 30 years in public life he drove Bermuda's energy transition — a plan targeting 85% renewables by 2035, the island's first utility-scale solar farm, an electrified bus fleet — and led the Bermuda Ocean Prosperity Programme behind its Blue Economy strategy. Inaugural Chair of the Blue Prosperity Leaders Forum and a Bermuda delegate at COP26, COP28 and the UN Ocean Conference, he now serves as Special Adviser for Climate and Ocean Policy and Ambassador for the Sargasso Sea Commission.

Dr. Angus Friday

President · Co-founder

Angus brings more than twenty years of financing resilience and sustainable development for island economies, working at the intersection of public policy, international finance and ocean innovation. A medical doctor by training, he chaired the Alliance of Small Island States as Grenada's Ambassador to the United Nations. At the World Bank he served as Oceans Representative and helped establish a $30 million renewable-energy trust fund for small island states. As Ambassador to the United States he developed the Blue Grenada programme and helped conceive and launch the Caribbean Climate-Smart Accelerator. More recently he was Blue Economy Director at the Waitt Institute and chaired Grenada's Fiscal Responsibility Oversight Committee. He is a non-executive director of Republic Bank (Grenada).

Martin Melconian

Senior VP Technology Strategy · Co-founder

Martin builds governance-first AI and data platforms where outcomes have to be accurate, consistent, and defensible. As Senior VP of Technology Strategy at Azuros, he leads the technology and delivery strategy for financial infrastructure that gets blue economy projects funded and keeps that funding accountable. Behind it sits 30+ years across financial services, risk, and decision-support platforms, from work with Microsoft and Siemens to building with blockchain since 2017.

Matias Bjarland

Senior VP Platform · Co-founder

Matias is a computer scientist and founder with thirty years of mission-critical software behind him. Chalmers-trained in AI and mathematics, he spent his early career in Boston financial services — Fidelity Investments, State Street and American Express — including trading infrastructure that carried more than $2 billion in trades a day. He co-founded Iteego and ran it as CTO for seventeen years: profitable from its first year, thirty people across three continents, and 50+ projects for clients including Skype, Sephora, Calvin Klein and Kohler. At Azuros he leads the platform and the engineering behind it, turning regulatory and financial design into working, auditable software.

Gail Hurley

Senior VP Sustainable Finance · Co-founder

Gail is a development finance specialist with more than twenty years' experience in how small island states finance resilience. She spent nearly a decade at UNDP in New York as Policy Specialist on Development Finance, leading its work on innovative finance and the blue economy and running the OECD–UNDP Tax Inspectors Without Borders initiative, and was Director of Advisory at Finance Earth, structuring finance for marine ecosystems. Now Co-Director of ODI Global's Resilient and Sustainable Islands Initiative, she brings that expertise to Azuros as Senior VP of Sustainable Finance.

Robert Wright

Senior VP Sustainable Energy · Co-founder

Robert opens financing doors in the Caribbean that conventional lenders don't — grants, debt guarantees, and innovation capital for renewable energy and blue economy projects. As Senior VP of Sustainable Energy at Azuros, he brings that track record, plus his work as a director of Worth Holdings and co-founder of New Leaf Power, to structuring the projects on the platform for real investment. Behind it lie decades of work across the Caribbean: securing alternative financing, advising the World Bank's Problue programme on deep sea water cooling, serving as a founding director of the Barbados-based Caribbean Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency, and representing the region at ocean forums from Palau to the United Nations.

Julien Nurse

Senior VP Investor Relations · Co-founder

With more than 30 years of experience in the FCA-regulated wealth management sector as both a business owner and strategic partner, Julien brings a rare combination of commercial insight, regulatory expertise, and investor-facing leadership. His track record spans business growth, capital raising, client relationship management, and strategic positioning, making him ideally placed to accelerate business development, refine investee strategy, strengthen stakeholder engagement, and enhance investor communications.

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