Cristina Rocha Antunes
Experienced executive producer with a proven track record of working in the media/tv industry.
Maria Jose Vale
Maria José Vale, in addition to being the founder of Boatcenter, developed her main activity in the financial market for almost 30 years. She is an economist, has an MBA in finance from Universidade Católica, and has completed several executive programs, including Women in Business at Universidade Católica and the postgraduate course “Sea Science and Business Administration” in partnership with UCP / UNCL. She is a member of the board of directors of Boatcenter
Pedro Cortez de Lobão
Project Consultant with extensive experience in Private Banking, Sourcing and Maintenance, Finance. house construction station. Team manager driver, F 3000, Formula 2 and semi official Porsche, Team Manager and History knowledge. In addition to his profession, he currently obtains his sailing captain’s license. H2 adept at climate change.
Maria Joao Bebianno
Professor Maria Bebianno is a jubilee professor at the University of Algarve with great experience in marine contamination and ecotoxicology. At the international level she integrated the Portuguese delegation that negotiated the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and is currently a member of the Group of Experts on the Regular Process for the Evaluation of the State of the Marine Environment including the Socio-Economic Commission of the United Nations.
Joao Fonseca Ribeiro
Based in Madeira and PT mainland
Served over 25 years in the Portuguese Navy and Defense, NATO and bilateral with US DoD largely devoted to naval operations, forces, and joint and combined staffs, to communications and information systems and international and interdepartmental cooperation and, more recently, oriented towards the sustainable development of the ocean and coastal areas.
Christopher Storey
Chris represents Green innovation Group (Starts Up incubator with more than 6.000 affiliates all around Europe), Sea Shepherd Portugal focused in activism against Overfishing among other threats to a balanced relation with the Sea, Agier impact jobs and Ghost NetWorks (developing a network for catching ghost nets and send them to recycling process. He is passionate about the ocean and building bridges for impact.
Nuno Lourenço
Based in Lisbon
Nuno Vilhena Lourenço. President of the Board of the +Atlantic Collaborative Laboratory and Business Development Manager at CEIIA. PhD in Marine Sciences, University of Algarve. He has experience in Oil industry consultancy. He participated in 26 deep sea scientific cruises (two deep dives with the Nautile submersible), and was PI in 6 of them.
Dorte Schneider Garcia
Based in Foz do Arelho
Dörte Schneider was born and raised in Germany. She is a skilled film editor who graduated at the Potsdam HFF "Konrad Wolf" film school. For years she worked as an assistant director, both in feature films and in tv commercials. In 2018 she decided to abandon the advertising world, co-founded the beach clean-up initiative LinDoMar, and started dedicating herself mostly to environmental subjects.
Sonia Ribeiro Crisogono
Based in Lisbon
Sónia is scientific and executive coordinator, consultant and professor, working in three different sets simultaneously in the past 18 years – university, consultancy and third sector voluntary work.
Filipe Cayolla
Filipe Cayolla, 57 years old, was born in Porto and lives in Esmoriz, he is a manager and entrepreneur (in a company that builds hotel interiors, but covers other areas, such as recreational boating).
He has a passion for animals and nature, he is a convinced ecologist, who tries to be consistent with what he believes.
He is or was involved in animal and environmental groups or associations.
He is a sailor and mountaineer (he has refuges in the Sea and Mountains).
With diverse interests and activities, he is a regular practitioner of Yoga and Karate.
He studied: Architecture, Arts, Economics and Management.
Abilio Martins Ferreira
Based in Lisbon
Training, Management of creative and innovative projects, Human resources management, strategic planning, social economy, management of healthcare spaces,
Hugo Almeida
Based in Porto
Over 20 years of Business and Marketing Management experience across several business Sectors and Brands throughout several countries in Europe, Americas and Middle East
Experienced Strategy Adviser and Chief Marketing Officer.
Henrique de Brion
Based in LIsbon
Aquanaut/deep diver
Painter
He has taught and worked in offshore oil explorations in locations as exotic as Brazil, Tunisia and India, serving as superintendent of COMEX (Compagnie Maritime de Expertises) and finally the position of operations manager of the U.S. company, Solus Ocean Systems Inc. (Ensearch Corp.).
Dominika Skwarska
Sociologist, social researcher and environmentalist, with strong passion for Ocean, natural world and sustainability. Co-founder and CEO of Oceans Blue Heart - cooperative for oceanic culture and protection. Hobby photographer and activist. Over 15-year experience in qualitative and quantitative research, evaluation, education, project management and public administration. Acted as project manager and evaluation specialist in various EU programs and initiatives, both in governmental and non-profit sectors.
Jose Croca Favinha
José António Croca Favinha foi Diretor do Museu de Marinha de fevereiro de 2020 a setembro de 2023, onde liderou a renovação da exposição permanente, a montagem de várias exposições temporárias e itinerantes, e integrou o museu na Rede Portuguesa de Museus. Entre outubro de 2018 e dezembro de 2019, ocupou os cargos de Comandante da Zona Marítima dos Açores, Chefe do Departamento Marítimo e Comandante Regional da Polícia Marítima dos Açores, liderando a força conjunta destacada para auxiliar a ilha das Flores após a devastação do furacão Lorenzo. De 2016 a 2018, esteve na NATO como Diretor dos Planos no Comando Marítimo em Londres.
Entre 2012 e 2014, comandou a Força Naval Portuguesa, e em 2010 assumiu a direção do Centro Integrado de Tática e Avaliação Naval, focado no treino e avaliação de navios. De 2007 a 2010, serviu no Comando de Transformação da NATO em Norfolk, EUA. Antes disso, foi Chefe da Divisão de Operações do Comando Naval e do Centro de Busca e Salvamento de Lisboa entre 2005 e 2007, além de ocupar cargos de comando e chefia a bordo de navios da Marinha. A sua carreira começou em 1986, após se licenciar em Ciências Militares Navais e especializar-se em Comunicações e Guerra Eletrónica.