Shaun Tomson is a leadership expert, keynote speaker, entrepreneur, and ambassador for the Surfrider Foundation and Boys To Men Mentoring. He is a former World Surfing Champion and has been listed as one of the ten greatest surfers of all time. He has a Master of Science in Leadership and has created two popular apparel brands, Instinct and Solitude. He lectures widely on empowerment at universities including Harvard and Kellogg Northwestern, and at corporations including Google, GM, Morgan Stanley, and Cisco.

Patrick Moser is the editor of Pacific Passages: An Anthology of Surf Writing (University of Hawai’i Press, 2008).  He collaborated with Shaun Tomson on Surfer’s Code: 12 Simple Lessons for Riding Through Life and has written articles for The Surfer’s Journal and Surfer.  He currently teaches writing and French language at Drury University in Springfield, Missouri, where he also offers a course on the history and culture of surfing.