Carmen Gonzalez-Valles Martinez
Carmen is the Director of Squid and Octopus Supply Chain Roundtables at Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP). Supply Chain Roundtables serve as forums for processors, importers, and others that buy directly from specific fishery sectors to work together in a pre-competitive environment to promote improvements throughout the supply chain.Carmen joined SFP in November 2016.Her academic background is in ocean sciences and she holds a master’s degree in economics, evaluation, and management of marine environment and fisheries resources at the University of Vigo.Prior to joining SFP, Carmen worked as a freelance consultant participating and coordinating fisheries observer programs for more than 5 years. Previous experiences also include the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission […]
Cat Dorey
Dr. Cat Dorey has over 20 years experience in environmental and social justice advocacy and activism, and has been campaigning for healthy oceans since 2003. She worked internationally on fisheries and seafood sustainability for 14 years with Greenpeace, and 3 years for the Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS) on marine protected areas, and seafood traceability and transparency. For the remainder of this time, Cat has been an Independent Advisor on science-based policy development for fisheries management, sustainable and equitable seafood sourcing practices, and fish welfare.Until May this year, Cat managed the Fair Catch campaign at AMCS, which calls on the Australian Government to develop stronger rules and policies to prevent […]
Chang Wei Hsiang
Chang Wei Hsiang graduated from the National Taiwan Ocean University with a master’s degree in Fisheries Science in 2012. He has been working at the Fisheries Agency, Ministry of Agriculture of Taiwan, for nine years and currently holds the position of section chief of the Fisheries Resource Management Section.Wei Hsiang’s team specializes in coastal and offshore fisheries resources management, formulating sustainable regulations for specific species and fishing gears, and implementing fisheries resources restoration and habitat conservation. In 2022, his team was awarded a major project achievement by the Ministry of Agriculture.Sustainability of fisheries resources is their goal, and they continue to promote regulations to achieve sustainable development.
Satoshi Matsumoto
As a member of JCCU since 1988, Satoshi Matsumoto has extensive experience in logistics management, sales and merchandising of private brand products under the JCCU private brand, CO•OP. His past roles at JCCU include the following: sustainability manager, Brand Strategy Division, Sustainability Strategy Department (2022-2024); officer in charge of sustainable procurement, Merchandising Division (2017-2022); general manager, Perishable Ingredient Promotion Department (2016-2017); general manager, Marine Products Department (2014-2016); general manager, Tohoku Region Branch (2012-2014); and general manager, Joint Merchandising Department (2010-2012).
Thomas Brzostowski
Thomas Brzostowski is the Interim Singapore Country Director at The Nature Conservancy (TNC), one of the world’s leading environmental non-profits working to create a world where people and nature can thrive. Tom is responsible for and oversees one of TNC’s newest country program offices and teams, working to help support Singapore in achieving its climate and sustainability aspirations.Tom is a trained scientist, philanthropy and conservation professional and non-profit executive leader with 15 years of experience working for international conservation organizations across Europe and the Asia Pacific region. His passion lies in developing transformational partnerships with philanthropists, foundations, companies, governments and impact investors to achieve mutual goals and aspirations to address […]
Cliff White
Pla Paungkaew
Felipe Espinosa
Utari Octavianty
Utari Octavianty is a Co-Founder and Chief Sustainability Officer at Aruna, leading and overseeing Corporate Affairs and Sustainability Initiatives including, but not limited to, strategic communications, government relations, sustainable fisheries and ESG implementation, and community development. Since her leadership at Aruna, Utari has been awarded several prestigious awards, such as Forbes 30 under 30 Asia Class of 2020, Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2021, and Top 100 Asia-Pacific Women-Powered, High-Growth Businesses JP Morgan. Aruna is an integrated fisheries e-commerce startup in Indonesia, established in 2016, that is working with more than 40,000 fishermen in 150+ coastal fishing communities across Indonesia (covering 90% of provinces) to bring their products to local and […]