Our Team

Ocean Exchange Team

Jill Zande

MATE Executive Director, Marine Technology Society

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

 

 

Highlights of her 22 years with MATE include establishing the global ROV (remotely operated vehicle) student competition and coordinating the development of MATE’s Underwater Robotics: Science, Design & Fabrication textbook. Both involved cultivating and maintaining partnerships with industry, professional societies, academic institutions, and STEM professionals.

Jill is an active member of the Marine Technology Society (MTS). She served on the MTS Board as the Vice President of Education and Research for 6 years. She currently serves as the Underwater Intervention (UI) Technical Program Committee Marine Education Track Chair and is a member of the MTS ROV and Education Committees.

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Testimonials

“The delegates are a very strategically chosen body of individuals. Virtually everyone who attends Ocean Exchange has the capacity to open doors.”

“When you bring an eclectic mix of highly intelligent, passionate people together, that’s when lightning strikes.”

“Ocean Exchange is entirely different from any of the other organizations that I’m involved in. It is about sustainable innovation. I think it’s also very different in the extremely broad range of stakeholders that it involves.”