Jesse Marsh
Jesse is the Principal and Manager of Scaling Blue, an independent consultancy founded in 2014. Scaling Blue helps non-profit organizations, foundations, the private sector, and other stakeholders scale their collective impact to achieve more sustainable fisheries and communities. Jesse has over 15 years of experience working on FIPs and coordinates the FIP Community of Practice, […]
Neil Sims
Neil is Founder and CEO of Ocean Era, Inc., an offshore aquaculture R&D company based in Kona, Hawaii. Ocean Era’s foci include development of tropical macroalgae culture systems (both onshore and offshore), and refining marine finfish culture for species such as kampachi, uku (snappers) and nenue (herbivorous reef fish). Neil has co-founded two commercial […]
Leah Buckley
Leah Buckley is a senior product manager, user research at Global Fishing Watch, an international organization that creates, transforms, and distributes data to increase the transparency of human activities in the global ocean. We believe open data and increased transparency hold the key to better ocean stewardship. Leah leads efforts to ensure user needs directly […]
Caitlyn Czajkowski
As the Executive Director of the National Aquaculture Association, Caitlyn Czajkowski is a marine biologist who is dedicated to advancing the U.S. aqauculture sector through policy grounded in science and the realities of aquaculture production. Her expertise is rooted in practical field work, with graduate work at Delaware State University that focused on oyster aquaculture […]
Mandi Jackson
Mandi Jackson is the Director of Strategic Research at Global Labor Justice (GLJ) and has decades of experience in the labor movement and non-profit sector as an organizer, researcher, and strategist. In her capacity as director of capital markets strategies at GLJ, she regularly engages shareholders and responsible investor networks globally on labor rights in […]
Dick Jones
Dick Jones brings more than four decades of executive leadership across the seafood and food systems sectors. He is a seasoned seafood industry leader, and CEO of Tidepoint Group, a blue economy consultancy focused on advancing sustainable ocean food systems. Most recently, he served as CEO of Blue Ocean Mariculture, an open-ocean finfish farm based […]
Seth White
Owner-Operator of Sol Mariculture LLC in Brunswick, Maine, where he grows a polyculture of oysters, sea urchins, and seaweed. He studied Marine Science at the University of Maine and furthered his education with a Master’s of Professional Science in Aquaculture at the University of Miami. He has experience in commercial oyster production and land-based R&D […]
Laura Diederick
Laura is the External Affairs Lead in NOAA Fisheries’ Office of Communications. In this role, she coordinates leadership engagement with constituent groups across the country. Laura also oversees the agency’s communications around seafood and commercial fishing.
Mike Marchand
Mike Marchand is a results-driven engineering and product management leader with extensive experience in packaging equipment innovation and operational excellence. As Senior Product Manager for Multi-head Weighers and Vertical Baggers at Harpak-ULMA Packaging, he leads new product development initiatives focused on performance, efficiency, and customer value. With a background spanning executive leadership, engineering management, and […]
Robert DeHaan
Robert DeHaan is Executive Vice President for government affairs and general counsel at the National Fisheries Institute. Prior to joining NFI, he worked as a trade and transportation consultant and an attorney in private practice, in Washington, D.C. From 2004-09, he served in a variety of positions in the George W. Bush Administration, at the […]