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KANOA WHO?

PEOPLE BEHIND KANOA

We are a team of boardsport enthusiasts with diverse backgrounds, building our lives around what we stand for: shaping, progressing, and sharing board culture. In our pasts we have seen the boardsport industry from several perspectives, and some of us have been working together for years - even before founding KANOA Surfboards - as athletes and coaches, or professionally as developers, engineers, designers or marketing professionals.

What connected us was the dedication everyone put into this project and the opportunities that came with it. That journey brought us together and turned us into the group of friends and the team we are today.

THILO VON OSTERHAUSEN

Basque Country, France

FOUNDER & PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

  • Innovator with a dedication for product design and shaping boards
  • Inventor of our patented Honey Roots Technology
  • Half engineer, half marketeer, studied at TU Munich, lived in Innsbruck and now calls the Basque Country his home
  • Born into boardsports, started windsurfing at 3 years, surfing, skating and snowboarding as a teen

TOBIAS DEGEL

Wiesbaden, Germany

GRAPHIC & PRODUCT DESIGN

  • Swiss army knife of design & Party DJ Hardliner
  • Enthusiastic idea developer including implementation up to the product
  • Mountain lover and climbing enthusiast
  • Startup experience (Chezz Matazz and Remount and upcycled skateboards)
  • Freelance graphic design since 2013

MAURICE ROLKA

Porto, Portugal & Southern Germany

DIGITAL, BUSINESS & MARKETING

  • Planer, organizer & strategist, leading KANOA’s Business and Marketing
  • Driving force behind KANOA's eCommerce development & digital projects
  • Studied in Innsbruck surrounded by the Alps - today splitting time between Southern Germany and Portugal, bringing surf and work together.
  • Working in the outdoor sports industry since 2017

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MORITZ BORN

Ericeira, Portugal

PAID MEDIA & AFFILIATE

  • Translates KANOA's product innovations into marketing campaigns
  • Manages our network of affiliates
  • Has worked within boardsports since 2010
  • Recently moved to sunny Portugal to surf as much as possible

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ZOÉ LEVIT

Biarritz, France

MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA

  • Looks after the Kanoa Team and keeps our Social Media Channels vibrant
  • Half-decent surfer with decent surf media skills
  • Started surfing at 14 in Biarritz and has currently moved there to surf even more

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LEONIE ABRODAT

Cologne, Germany

CONTENT MARKETING & E-COMMERCE

  • Keeps our blog content fresh and updates you with exciting newsletters to keep you in the loop
  • Helps you out with any service questions
  • In charge of translating the KANOA webshop and adding new cool products and content
  • Spends most of her time chasing tropical waves in sunnier places

 

STEFFEN WOLLERT

Basque Country, France

ENGINEERING & PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

  • creates 3D CAD design
  • transfers surfboard shapes from 3D models into the CNC cut blanks
  • improves production facilities and sustainability

  • lives in France to build boards and can neither speak French nor get barreled

GABIN VERDET

Bidart, France

MECHANICAL COMPOSITES ENGINEER

  • develops HRT Surfboards R&D and production
  • challenges HRT boards to the limits
  • taking care of the french KANOA communication and marketing
  • if not at the office, please find me in the water, probably in Parlementia

KANOA TEAM

Our team riders and ambassadors are an essential part of KANOA. They surf our boards day in, day out – in the river, in the ocean, in all kinds of conditions. Their unfiltered feedback flows directly into our product development and helps us push every shape and construction to the next level.

We’re building a community of surfers who want to be part of this process and share their passion for progressing river and ocean surfing.

Sounds like you? Get in touch and let’s surf this journey together.

aloha@kanoa-surfboards.com

SHAPERS / BOARD BUILDERS

We have the privilege to be part of a network of some of the most skilled and innovative board builders on this planet and we are thankful to profit from their know-how and experience.

Since day one, we collaborate with Spider Murphy, one of the world's most experienced surfboard shapers, combining his decades of experience with our own composite know-how and drive for innovation.

It’s this constant combination of know-how from different fields that makes KANOA truly unique. Together we are pushing surf equipment forward in every aspect - redefining durability, sustainability with every shape and construction.

WE COLLABORATE...

We don’t get far without the right partners. Surfing is about community – and so is building better equipment. That’s why we team up with brands, shapers, manufacturers, and research institutes that share our mindset.

Together we learn from each other, push ideas forward, and work on making surf gear more durable, more sustainable, and more fun to ride.

LIKE MINDED BRANDS

We’re not on this journey alone. Partnering with companies and associations that follow the same path helps us keep moving. By supporting each other and combining strengths, we can actually make a difference for surfing - in the water and beyond.

SELECTED UNIVERSITIES

Together with Germany’s leading Universities in composite construction we initiated several governmentally funded research projects to realize our patented Honey Roots Technology.

Thanks to their help, we have access to the latest insights and developments in the sector.

This way we could build simulation models for our technology that speeds up the prototyping phase and ensures we can achieve products at the highest industry standards.

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Collaboration with the TU Chemnitz and TU Munich
Collaboration. with RWTH Aachen University

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