Leadership & Staff
Leadership Team
The Leadership Team is an advisory body assembled to activate and mobilize the Ocean Visions Network. The team sets the overall strategic vision for the Network, establishes priorities, reviews progress and products, and facilitates collaboration and communication with external parties.
Brad Ack
Executive Director and Chief Innovation Officer at Ocean Visions
Jennifer Dianto Kemmerly
Vice President of Global Oceans at Monterey Bay Aquarium
Emanuele Di Lorenzo
Chairman & Co-Founder of Ocean Visions and Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology
Daniela V. Fernandez
Founder and CEO of Sustainable Ocean Alliance
John E. Fernández
Professor and Director, Environmental Solutions Initiative, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Steve Gaines
Dean of the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Martin Gray
Chief Marketing Officer at Georgia Aquarium
Paul Holthus
Founding President and CEO of the World Ocean Council
Jeff Larsen
Site Lead, Creative Destruction Lab-Atlantic
Fiorenza Micheli
Co-Director of Stanford’s Center for Ocean Solutions and of Hopkins Marine Station, and the Professor of Marine Science at Stanford
Gary Mitchum
Professor of Physical Oceanography and the Associate Dean in the College of Marine Science at the University of South Florida
Kate Moran
President & CEO, Ocean Networks Canada
Rick Murray
Deputy Director and Vice President for Research at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Millicent Pitts
Chief Executive Officer and Director, The Ocean Exchange
Chris Scholin
President and CEO, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Eric Siegel
Chief Innovation Officer, Ocean Frontier Institute
Mark Shimamoto
Director, Global Outreach Programs, American Geophysical Union
Rohit Shukla
Founder and CEO, Larta
Dawn Wright
Chief Scientist of the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)
Anna Zivian
Senior Research Fellow at Ocean Conservancy
Board of Directors
Martin Gray
Chief Marketing Officer at Georgia Aquarium
Joe Handy
President and CEO, National Black MBA Association
Nancy Knowlton
Sant Chair in Marine Science Emerita, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Emanuele Di Lorenzo
Chairman & Co-Founder of Ocean Visions and Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology
Fiorenza Micheli
Co-Director of Stanford’s Center for Ocean Solutions and of Hopkins Marine Station, and the David and Lucile Packard Professor of Marine Science at Stanford University
Staff
Brad Ack
Executive Director and Chief Innovation Officer
Emily Goldfarb
Operations Manager
Jessica Keith
Communications Director
David Koweek
Science Director
Nikhil Neelakantan
Program Manager