ORCAS Consulting is a full service coastal and freshwater environmental consulting company. Looking for a better way to do business and service their clients, founders Jose Borrero, Dougal Greer and Rhys McIntosh started ORCAS in January 2025 after leaving the company they co-founded nearly a decade earlier.

The name ORCAS has multiple layers of meaning. Firstly it is out of respect to Orcinus orca, one of the most powerful, graceful and intelligent animals on planet earth and one of the undisputed masters of the oceanic environment. The orca is known as a fearsome, apex predator that is also highly social and works in teams to accomplish its goals. The orca is known to inhabit every coastal environment on earth and as such is an apt metaphor for a group of coastal and environmental science professionals with a diverse skillset and decidedly global outlook and ambitions. 

Secondly, the letters O-R-C-A-S serve as an acronym covering many of the core principles that our company embodies:

Today, adaptation to the changes occurring in and around our coastal environment are of paramount concern to everyone on earth. The pressures of an ever-increasing population in the coastal zone combined with the effects of rising sea levels, increasing temperatures and ongoing threats from natural hazards such as storms, cyclones and tsunami are creating challenges on scales never before experienced by human society.

Therefore we coined the acronym ORCAS to reflect our primary aim of helping humanity in its quest to live harmoniously and resiliently in an around the coastal environment. Recognising the that only constant is change and that we must adapt in order to survive and thrive.