RUSSELL COUTTS

Name: Russell Coutts
Nationality: New Zealand

Born March 1st, 1962, Wellington, New Zealand
Married to Jenny
Father of four children

Academic background:
The University of Auckland, Bachelor of Engineering

Career highlights:
Russell Coutts has won the America's Cup as a skipper four times. His sailing record includes winning the ISAF World Youth championships, a Gold Medal in the 1984 Olympics, three World Match Racing Championships, numerous international match race wins and IOR, IMS and One Design World Championship victories. In New Zealand he has been honoured with a Commander of the British Empire and the Distinguished Companion of New Zealand Order of Merit and has twice been the International Yacht Racing Union’s World Sailor of the Year.

ANDREJ JUSTIN

Name: Andrej Justin
Nationality: Slovenia

Born in 1959 in Koper on the Adriatic coast

Academic background:
Studied electronics and civil engineering in Ljubljana - Slovenia and architecture in Graz – Austria. Graduated in Yacht Design at Westlawn Institute of Marine Technology in 1993.

Career Highlights:
Andrej Justin, born in Koper on the Adriatic coast in1959, has lived with yachts and the sea all through his life. He studied electronics and civil engineering in Ljubljana - Slovenia and architecture in Graz – Austria.  He designed his first boats for the biggest Slovenian boat builder ELAN in the late eighties, and graduated in Yacht Design at Westlawn Institute of Marine Technology in 1993. Andrej Justin has designed several racing boats from 33-foot match race one design JustinTen to 80-foot carbon, canting keel MaxiJena, and cruisers from 37-foot to the currently under construction PalmerJohnson 90' in aluminium.

www.couttsjustin.com