Oliver Pinto

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Oliver Pinto has been an Advertising Creative Director/Copywriter for over 25 years, working in some of the top advertising agencies across India, UAE & USA. He is also a Landscape and Wildlife Ecologist, Endangered Species Conservationist, Geoscientist, Botanist, GIS Specialist & Remote Sensing Spatial Data Analyst as well as a Site Planner - certified by world-leading academic institutions including IIT - India, WII - India, IIRS/ISRO - India, MIT - USA, UC Davis - USA, ETH - Zurich, Wageningen - The Netherlands, Univ of Leeds - UK, Howard Hughes Medical Institute & American Museum of Natural History. He is a blues/classic rock/hard rock guitarist, vocalist and composer who finds mention in Wikipedia's article on 'Indian Rock', along with his band 'Axecalibre' for their contribution to the musical genres of western blues-rock and classic rock music on the Indian subcontinent. He writes songs, jingles, articles, stories, scientific papers, prose and verse.