Cleaner oceans begin
with cleaner ports


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Our Mission

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Our Team

  • Partner

    Charles Paret is a real estate professional with over fourteen years of experience in real estate development hospitality, and construction. His passion and focus is on rural revitalization. Charles founded Coloma River Capital (www.colomariver.com) and it’s subsidiaries (by.Meraki) as a platform to harness the energy of talented real estate professionals, innovators in hospitality, and design specialists to change the future of the way we live life and travel. He credits his accomplishments and experience to working as a partner with renowned designer Brook Rose for over 9 years who has developed some of the highest dollar per sqft properties in Washington DC. The portfolio during his career with Brook can be found at www.brookrose.com.

    Charles began his career with a specialty in historic preservation and construction. During his operation of this business, his company achieved a number of awards for it’s accomplishments in historic preservation in collaboration with the city of Washington DC and it’s office of Historic Preservation.

    As a partner in Brook Rose Development and other JV roles, Charles has participated in more than 50 multi family and commercial real estate projects as a partner tasked with managing

    debt/equity relationships for projects, as well as responsibility for acquisitions, contracts, and sales totaling over 400M in the Washington DC region. He has recently helped oversee pre-development and construction of the EATON Hotel in Washington DC, a 200 Room Boutique Hotel for Katherine Lo and Langham Hotel Group. Among other current projects, he is a partner in developing a 173 key boutique hotel in the Union Market area of Washington, DC, a 200 wellness hotel in Whitefish, MT, and a 110 room boutique hotel in Shenandoah Valley, VA. Other large projects include, leading the master plan of a 2M square foot water front development in San Juan Puerto Rico, 500K square foot revitalization of urban street scape in Washington DC, and a 400K sqft repurpose and adaptive reuse of light-industrial and historic buildings in Shenandoah Valley.

    Charles graduated from Beijing University with degrees in Manufacturing and Production. Charles also attended George Mason University with a degree in Business Administration and Marketing.

    He is actively involved in non profit and social impact organizations in the Washington Metro area, particularly those focused on the arts and social impact filmmaking. He sits on the Mayor’s Housing & Development Commission for Ward 4.

  • Partner

    In 2021, Ms. Yoshino co-founded the "Puerto Rico Blockchain Trade Association" to build an inclusive crypto community and created "CryptoCurious" a free weekly Spanish education program designed to teach local Puerto Ricans about crypto, NFTs, metaverse and Web 3.0. She hosted the first annual Puerto Rico Blockchain Week in San Juan and introduced a blockchain bill in the PR House of Representatives.

    She is the founder of the, "The Yoshino Group" a consulting firm that focuses on local government affairs and crisis management.

    Previously, Ms. Yoshino served as Senior Legislative Strategist for the DC Housing Authority. She built relationships with Council on behalf of the Agency and for the first time in Agency history, got a capital budget line added in the amount of $50M.

    Ms. Yoshino served as Deputy Political Director for the Democratic Attorneys General Association. Tasked with leading recruitment, in three months she revived a stagnant women's initiative and developed a sustainable recruitment strategy for 2020-2022.

    Ms. Yoshino served as Legislative Director to Councilmember Brandon Todd (Ward 4) for three years handling all issues before the D.C. Council related to economic development, education, transportation, environmental, housing, animals, and health. For three fiscal cycles, she oversaw hearings and tracked changes to the City's $15.5 billion dollar budget.

    Ms. Yoshino served as Legislative Director to the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development. In the fall of 2015, she successfully orchestrated the introduction and passage of 10 bills and resolutions, including the acquisition disposition of Walter Reed Redevelopment (Ward 4) and the surplus and disposition of St. Elizabeths East Campus (Ward 8) in six months. Additionally, she took the lead on strategic outreach for high profile contracts, specifically, the D.C. United Soccer Stadium and the Wizards Practice Facility.

    Graduate of Mount Holyoke College and Valparaiso Law School, Ms. Yoshino has years of public policy experience. Ms. Yoshino is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Illinois.

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INITIATIVES

Port Bienville

Mississippi, USA

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Solapave

London, UK

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JUPE

San Francisco, CA

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BioSafe

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Alegria Farms

Montana, USA

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Element Global

Sprung Studios

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AAE

California, USA

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AESI

Democratic Republic of Congo

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