Frank Heidinger is an ocean lover, explorer, producer and entrepreneur. He was on the founding team at Parley for the Oceans, an environmental organization working with large companies to repurpose ocean plastic pollution. He worked extensively with the United Nations OPGA and was on the team that created the first UN World Oceans Week Summit.

He is the creative director of the Fari Islands Foundation. Frank and his team co-produce some of the largest cultural media and sporting events in the world and have worked on brand licensing throughout Europe, Asia and the Caribbean.

Brian Vetter is a former professional athlete turned disruptor in the clean food movement. As co-founder of Tessemae’s, the number one selling organic dressing manufacturer in the US, he has led the charge in both retail distribution and strategic manufacturing build out.

After realizing his family’s organic dressing was shipping on diesel fuel trucks, he joined the advisory board at Xos Trucks to help guide them through the process of disrupting an industry. Xos, now a public company has the capital to scale and help save the world.

Brian’s mission is to leave it better than he found it.

Greg Sutton is a retired Navy SEAL officer with three decades of experience in high performance maritime operations.

As a senior systems engineer at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, he developed and led the testing protocols to move cutting edge ocean technology from the laboratory to fielded products.

When serving as the Program Manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Greg created and led programs that applied the leading advancements in materials and autonomy to complex but practical open ocean systems. Most recently, as VP of Engineering at the Maritime Applied Physics Corporation, Greg was at the center of scaling a prototype unmanned surface vessel to a manufacturable and production-ready vessel that outperformed all competitors.