Bryan Knowles is a surfer, shaper, and writer, who despite the flat summers and frigid winters of his grommet-hood on Cape Cod, MA, fell in love with surfing and the ocean early on. Making his first surfboard at age 14, Bryan later wrote his college application essay about board building and went to Stanford University. After graduating, he survived a few years of the corporate consulting grind before realizing it was time to turn his real passion into a business. Bryan now resides in North County San Diego where he is co-founder and "Rider-in-Chief" of Ride Anything Surfboards. He also maintains a blog of surf inspired poetry at SurfPoetry.com and is obsessed with curves, clean lines, and all things aquatic.