Blue Terra

Where Communities and Nature Thrive Together
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BlueTerra

Where Communities and Nature Thrive Together

BlueTerra is driven by a powerful mission:

to restore and protect our planet’s natural ecosystems while bolstering the resilience of our coastlines and communities. Our world is evolving, and whether driven by human activity or the earth’s natural cycles, the impacts are clear—rising sea levels and warming oceans are intensifying storms, hurricanes, and severe weather events. These extreme conditions generate greater wave energy, accelerating beach erosion, flooding coastal areas, and destroying vital habitats like seagrass meadows and shorelines that support marine life. The devastation ripples outward, damaging billions of dollars in infrastructure, as we’ve witnessed in the aftermath of recent hurricanes. As a comprehensive environmental restoration and mitigation firm, BlueTerra stands apart by offering a holistic approach. While many companies focus on isolated solutions—whether it’s engineering, surveying, permitting, marine construction, or monitoring—BlueTerra integrates all of these elements into one cohesive service. We don’t just create projects, we fund, build, and oversee their success from start to finish. By blending green (nature-based) and grey solutions, we design and construct projects that foster cross-habitat synergies, yielding ecosystem benefits that cannot be achieved through a single solution alone.

Heather Herold, CEO

Heather has extensive experience in management, sales, marketing, strategic alliances, government relations, and IT. She is a serial entrepreneur founding/co founding five businesses of which three were acquired by Fortune 10 companies. She has spent the last six years in the environmental restoration market, growing sales from $1.5M to $47M. She has held executive level management positions with McKesson, AmerisourceBergen, Hearst, and Diebold and has won numerous national awards for excellence in sales and marketing. She completed undergraduate studies in Journalism and Business Marketing at Duquesne University and postgraduate studies in Business at the University of Pittsburgh.

Jeff Huenink, CFO/COO

For the last 10 years, Jeff has been the CEO of a Florida-based environmental restoration company, and is a former member of the Florida House of Representatives. He successfully managed several businesses, one of which included an Initial Public Offering that was listed on the New York Stock Exchange. He has held the positions of CEO, CFO, and Managing Director for a variety of Florida-based businesses. Jeff completed undergraduate studies in Finance and Marketing at the University of South Florida and has been named an outstanding alumnus of USF’s College of Business. He won two USF Fast 56 awards in 2022 and 2023 for his success in managing one of the 56 fastest growing alumni businesses in the world.