Maria Wilhelm

Maria is co-chair of CAMERON GLOBAL and has been instrumental in the company’s growth. She’s held senior positions in the media and technology sectors throughout her career, leading or advising corporate development teams at Time Warner, Netscape, AOL, and Microsoft. She has structured financings, led acquisitions, and developed strategies for accelerated growth and value-creation for early-stage ventures. Throughout her career, she has built a reputation for her ability to align financial strategies with business goals, optimize financial performance, and identify strategic opportunities.

A division of CAMERON GLOBAL, Maria runs Earthship, a documentary unit dedicated to projects that address climate change, celebrate oceans, and champion nature. Productions span the Emmy Award-winning climate change series Years of Living Dangerously; The Game Changers; the award-winning short she directed, AKASHINGA: The Brave Ones; and Secrets of the Whales, which won the Emmy for Best Documentary Series in 2021. A National Geographic/Disney franchise, the Secrets series continues with Secrets of the Elephants, which launched on Earth Day 2023, and will appear annually with Secrets of the Octopus in 2024, followed by Penguins and Bees.

Maria also functions as executive director of the Avatar Alliance Foundation, which promotes science-based solutions that advance the availability of clean energy, enable healthy oceans, protect and preserve biodiversity and support sustainable food systems.

Among her other philanthropic commitments, Maria is a vice-chair at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; a trustee of the African Wildlife Foundation; a board member of the TBA21 Foundation; and a director emeritus of The Explorers Club.