About Russ Walsh

Russ Walsh is a Silicon Valley–based engineer, executive, and climate innovator with more than three decades of experience advising global technology leaders, including Google, Apple, IBM, Facebook, and GE. His career has been defined by solving complex, large-scale challenges through systems-level thinking and cross-disciplinary innovation.

In a moment of global disruption, Walsh turned his focus to sea-level rise and reached a pivotal insight: while emissions reduction is essential, it will not be enough to protect the world’s coastlines. That realization sparked The SeaNet Vision—a bold, engineering-led approach to managing rising seas by redirecting excess ocean water into strategically designed inland waterways.

The SeaNet Vision reframes melting ice not only as a crisis, but as an opportunity—transforming rising seas into “blue gold” that can restore ecosystems, protect communities, and unlock sustainable economic growth for generations to come.