PEOPLE
We are passionate about building
an organization unlike any other.
TEAM:
mark
kane
Mark oversees the full spectrum of OWA’s operations with a holistic, integrative approach - shaping its vision, designing blueprints, managing projects, securing funding, and delivering outcomes aligned with strategic goals.
He excels in designing business architecture, scaling long-term strategies, solving complex logistics, building high-performing teams, and leveraging proven solutions.
As CEO of Higher Status Global, Mark co-developed Phoenix Fintech and cryptocurrency trading systems, driving digital transformation. A professional trader and seasoned entrepreneur with 25 years’ experience, he has launched multiple successful, diverse ventures.
A super connector and community catalyst, he brings expansive vision, creative problem-solving, and relentless drive to transformational initiatives.
Outside work, Mark pursues a life aquatic: exploring caves, coral reefs, and underwater ecosystems as a qualified cave diver and divemaster.
SYStEM DESIGN & STRATEGY
OPERATIONS & COMMUNICATIONS
Yasmin drives OWA’s Operations, Communications, and Design, orchestrating day-to-day workflows, executing project plans, and ensuring seamless alignment across functions. She shapes communications, branding, and the creative direction of OWA’s high-impact materials.
She excels at cross-functional thinking and streamlining operations, fostering high performance and productivity across OWA and Higher Status Global as a creative producer with meticulous attention to detail.
With 30+ years of transdisciplinary experience spanning finance, charity, academia, health, events, and the creative industries, Yasmin has held roles at leading London institutions, co-authored peer-reviewed publications in clinical psychology, and is an award-nominated event producer.
A passionate gardener and nurturer of ideas, she explores permaculture, philosophy, yoga, chi kung, and lifelong learning.
yasmin chadury
JOSH
BRAMLEY
FINANCIAL OPERATIONS
Josh has been instrumental in connecting OWA and Higher Status Global with trading partners and overseeing compliance across fiat and crypto systems, including KYC/AML policies and fund risk frameworks.
A seasoned Trading Consultant and Blockchain Advisor, he brings 20+ years of experience in derivatives trading, launching a regulated crypto fund, and developing algorithmic trading strategies. He has worked with high-net-worth individuals, family offices, and institutional clients, while designing a trading training program with a 100% graduate success rate for candidates from underprivileged backgrounds.
Self-employed throughout his career in a zero-sum environment, Josh has honed the ability to motivate, analyze performance, and continuously re-educate. Collaborating with performance coaches and psychologists has strengthened his capacity for self-management and accountability in high-stakes decision-making.
DATA ARCHITECTURE
Seth has been working across Data Management and Governance on OWA's Regenerative Search Engine project.
He's a Senior Data Architect, Data Manager and Governor who has designed and built data systems from conception, modeling, ETL, implementation and data quality, through to dimensional model reporting and analytics. He's created and implemented Data Governance programs for strategic and tactical success, supported by metadata management, multi-layered data security models and role-based access control systems.
It's been a long journey from his early collaboration with Buckminster Fuller back in the early 1980s to joining the team at Open World Alliance, tying together his experiences, knowledge and passions to advance his vision of making the Earth a beautiful place to live for all.
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SETH
LEFFERTS
DATA ArchitectURE & AI
NURUL
CHOUDHURY
Nurul has been working on OWA’s Regenerative Search Engine project
as a Senior Data Architect and Machine Learning specialist.
He's a highly hands-on Identity and Access Management (IAM) Architect and Software Engineering Manager, with expertise in defining strategy, executing large multi-year programs, managing global teams and leading projects from the front.
His industry experience spans working in Financial Services and Healthcare Insurance, delivering outcomes aligned with business objectives.
BOOKKEEPING & ACCOUNTS
Jacquie manages OWA’s financial reconciliations, payment processing, and bookkeeping within the Economies department.
With 30 years of independent bookkeeping experience, she has overseen large client portfolios, particularly for businesses focused on sustainability and natural living.
She's earned a positive reputation over the years, helping to make a difference through her thorough, reliable and consistent work and in these current times is motivated to contributing to OWA’s mission and supporting positive global change.
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JACQUIE
ROSE
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MATT
LEWIS
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Matt creates and executes OWA’s impactful graphic design content for internal and external communications, collaborating with Mark and Yasmin in the Design department.
With 26+ years across diverse creative projects, he brings a broad arsenal of design skills and tools across all media. His experience spans AV organisations, PR and advertising agencies, production companies, event organisers, and major multinational clients in media, finance, IT, retail, transport, and the charitable sector.
His interests include tending to his extensive indoor garden of tropical and carnivorous plants, and plant-based foods utilizing hydroponic systems, and enjoys immersing himself in the outdoors as a constant reminder of life’s essence.
ASSOCIATES:
OWA partners with a trusted collective
of associates and collaborators,
uniting diverse expertise
to deliver transformative solutions for the planet.
ruth
andrade
REGENERATIVE PARTNERSHIPS
Ruth advises OWA on the Regenerative Search Engine project, specialising in regenerative impact and environmental project strategy.
Her main interest is in building and energizing networks that bridge industrial growth with a new culture capable of sustaining complex life on Earth.
Passionate about living-systems approaches - from Permaculture to Sociocracy - Ruth creates win-win-win connections that nurture personal growth, strengthen communities, and are in service to planetary regeneration.
LUSH COSMETICS,
REGENEROSITY
NETWORK:
As an alliance, OWA seeks to facilitate, connect, catalyse and inspire co-creative partnerships among allies, guided by alignment and a shared vision for a regenerative future.
We are building a membership program to onboard allies and enable the free exchange of information and resources across a distributed, decentralized community of autonomous individuals, organisations, and networks worldwide - amplifying collective regenerative impact. Allies include:
