Neil Egsgard founded Surf Anywhere in 2008. He built and consulted on river waves across North American and Europe. The wave projects include some of the best manufactured waves such as the Mountain in Canada and Bend in the USA. In 2021, he completed 18 months of research into new ways of shaping surf and kayak river waves. The research is being turned into full scale waves and those projects are in the engineering phases. The research results and resulting engineered waves systems are being published under a Creative Commons license. The research also produced a published scientific paper. Aside from wave building and design, Neil has built and led the Alberta River Surfing Association since 2005, created and managed major river surfing events, created river surfing safety signage and public data, surfed river waves around the world, and much more. Neil holds a H.B.Sc. from the University of Toronto majoring in Physics and minoring in Mathematics and German.

Jacob Kelly founded Surf Anywhere in 2008 and directs communications, media creation, fundraising, promotions, community management and has run a successful lessons and gear sales startup. Jacob is passing the torch for local business to concentrate on the international efforts of Surf Anywhere but still offers lots of coaching and development for surf lessons and event planning. Jacob has been river surfing since 2005 and is on his way to surfing over 100 river waves.  Jacob is part of a network of river surfing’s great pioneers, community leaders, wave engineers, athletes and business owners.  This network shares information on all things river surfing and can offer a lot of insights to any project.