#75: Jim Kempton —Surfing Media, Dream Surfing Jobs and Women on Waves - a podcast by Oli Russell-Cowan

Jim Kempton is an author, former editor and publisher of SURFER Magazine, Marketing Executive at Quiksilver, Billabong and current President of the California Surf Museum.

Jim started surfing when he was a kid in Guam where his parents were working as civil servants. He moved to California for high school and then majored in journalism at University. After college he got a job writing for Surfing Magazine as he was travelling a lot to Europe and Morocco on surf adventures. Jim was writing articles for SURFER Magazine which lead to him becoming associate editor, then editor and publisher within 3 years. He ran the magazine for a decade before moving to Transworld to become the publisher for TWS Business magazine and Transworld Snowboarding.

In the early 2000’s Jim moved to Quiksilver and oversaw the Quiksilver Global Crossing boat searching for waves all over the world. Afterwards he became the Media Marketing Director at Billabong. Jim then took on the position as director of the California Surf Museum. He has written a numerous books including, Surfing The Manual: Advanced, First We Surf Then we Eat and his most recent book Women on Waves.

Tune in to find out how Jim managed to get these incredible positions in the surfing industry, discovering over 100 new waves around the world on the Crossing boat, telling the amazing history of women in surfing in his latest book and loads more!

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