Solutions Review Team

Nadir Ait-Laoussine is a strategist and venture builder focused on advancing innovation in climate, property, and ocean technologies.

Alison manages the District’s portfolio of collaborative projects including the Maritime and Defense Technology Hub

Megan Barry is Lead Strategist and Founder of Systems Blue Studio, a creative strategy consultancy designed to improve operations in the Conservation sector through systems thinking and ‘blue ocean’ strategies.

Director of Resilience & Adaptation at Moffatt & Nichol; working across the practices of Water, Ports and Transportation.

Ann Lee Carpenter brings more than 30 years of experience in strategic planning, marketing, business development, and community outreach in private industry, nonprofit organizations, and as an entrepreneur.

Sourcing, evaluating, and funding early-stage Maryland companies improving water quality.

Richard E. Claar is a Partner of The Martec Group, Inc., a global technical marketing research consulting firm.

Director of Adams Center for Entrepreneurship at Florida Atlantic University

Delivering high impact solutions to enable rapid growth of technology “scale ups” within the Blue Economy.

As Founder Success Associate at Seaworthy Collective, Brooke supports the execution and evolution of the Startup Studio & Incubator program — an immersive 12-week experience designed to accelerate ocean impact entrepreneurs.

Self-motivated and reliable team player with an educational and career background in sustainability.

Matthias is a founding partner of Coastal Breeze Partners and has 25 years of investing, merger & acquisition and corporate finance experience.

His research interests are broadly concerned with the use of new technology for observing oceanic phenomena and the development of inverse techniques for their interpretation.

Founder/Partner/Angel Investor Fish 2.0 Ventures.

Entrepreneur, investor and advisor helping leaders and organizations do their best work.

Principal/Founder of Global ETF Advisors LLC- an independent management consulting firm.

Inspiring leader with 30 years of management, sales, marketing, and product development experience in marine, luxury products, advertising & communications, IT, and professional services.

Vittorio, a Partner in Institutional Client and Product Solutions at Apollo, began his career in the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs

Justin Manley is an innovative technologist and executive with experience in startup, public corporation, academic, and public sectors.

Kimberly Mathisen is the CEO of HUBOcean, a non-profit foundation aimed at becoming the world’s ocean data collaboration hub. 

Deborah A. Mosca, Ph.D., Chief Life Science Officer, XCMR Inc., has more than 40 years of experience as a proven leader of multi-disciplinary, interinstitutional project teams in various organizations.

Erica Moulton is a lifelong educator, marine scientist, adventurer and maker with more than 25 years’ experience designing, developing and implementing continuing education & marine and environmental education courses.

 

Nikhil Neelakantan is the Senior Program Officer for the Ocean Visions Launchpad program, where he works with startups working on ocean-based carbon dioxide removal.

Katherine O’Fallon is the executive director of the Marine Research Hub since October of 2022.

Chris is an oceanographer and business development executive with 20+ years of experience building and leading complex organizations, advancing mission-driven partnerships, and guiding durable growth for a range of academic, government, and private organizations.

Philipp Petry is Partner at Impact Strategies and a doctoral researcher in ESG × AI.

Betsy works with governments, industry, investors, and emerging tech startups to help them discover one another and achieve mutual success. Interests range from autonomous vehicles to energy to the future of education.  She is passionate about coaching innovators to think big.

Scott is an experimental physicist by training, with technical expertise in the fields of nuclear physics, power generation systems, and optics.

Jacob Ruytenbeek is the Founder and CEO of SailPlan

Mark Stevens is a Principal Program Manager as part of the Advanced Autonomy and Applied Robotics team supporting commercial and government customers.

Dr. Jennifer Nyfennegger is a Principal Technologist and Vice President at Carollo Engineers, Inc. in Sarasota, Florida.

Dr. Prannoy Suraneni is Associate Professor in Civil and Architectural Engineering at the University of Miami since 2024.

Jason Thompson is the Chief Technology Officer for Oceankind. Prior to joining Oceankind Jason was on Verily’s founding team, Alphabet’s life sciences subsidiary spun out of Google X.

Anshul is a maritime executive with over 20 years of experience in strategic leadership and technical roles scaling sustainable business solutions and creating a multi-dimensional framework to accelerate innovation and change.

Iris is the Israeli National Center of Blue Economy’s Head of Strategic Partnerships.

At the Marine Technology Society, the Ocean Enterprise Initiative focuses on fostering innovation within the ocean economy by advancing technology solutions and supporting workforce development.

 

Jill Zande is the President/Executive Director of MATE Inspiration for Innovation and the Associate Director of the MATE Center.

 

 

Founder, advisor, builder, and researcher.