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Our Bios
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Sam Gimbel (CEO and art director) was born in NYC.
He has lived in New York, Paris, Los Angeles, Hawaii and Oregon. Sam has been an international fine artist for over 25 years. He is a figurative and abstract expressionist with powerful color and movement. His work is in many collections all over the world from Europe to Hawaii. Sam And his wife are opening their second gallery in Gothenburg Sweden 2009-2010.
His passion for making the planet eco-friendly started when he lived on the big island of Hawaii. For more than ten years he lived off the grid using wind, solar and rain catchments. Gaiaboom is part of those years in Hawaii - leading to a passion for the world to go green. Sam lives on a fjord in West Sweden with his wife Gandha. |
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Gandha Jacobson Gimbel (CEO and media & co-art director) was born in Kungsbacka, West Sweden. She was under the impression growing up, that everyone recycled and ate healthy foods. She was very shocked to find that was not so. Gandha has lived and traveled all over the world from India, France, England, Hawaii and back to Sweden. She has been a model, clothing designer, Interior textile designer, nature & animal lover, and all around travel aficionado. It has been her passion to show how easy it is to be green. In doing research for gaiaboom, she has discovered there is nothing you cannot find that isn’t eco-friendly. Nothing!
Gandha hates to waste time on the Internet looking for items and getting lost in the mayhem. Gandha says “Gaiaboom is a breath of fresh air to all that are not internet Savoy. “Gaiaboom is for people looking for eco friendly items and issues from all over the world. It is so easy to use and quite sexy, in an internet nerdy kind of way”. Gandha lives on a fjord in West Sweden with her Husband, artist and co founder of Gaiaboom Sam Gimbel. |
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Michael Prikryl (CEO and technical Director) was born in Olomouc, Czech Republic, and grew up in Germany. His early childhood gave him a leg up on how to be green. “Germany has been one of the leaders of alternative energy and recycling movements. It just seemed natural to make a site like Gaiaboom out of my earlier experiences”. Michael is part of several health conscious and spiritual forums, also the author of “5 Milestones to a Cure to OCD and Anxiety”, a book on how to cure OCD and anxiety naturally. He is passionate about organic food and is a lover of nature and animals. Being a respected web developer he brings a fresh new look to Gaiaboom.
He is also a pianist and songwriter and has released several albums.
Michael lives in Stuttgart, Germany. |
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