Board of Advisors and Staff
Marco Ayala
President
Houston InfraGard Members Alliance
Meredith Austin, RADM (USCG, RET.)
President
Mer Crisis Advisors, LLC.
Jim Bunsey
Senior Manager, Business Management
Propane Education & Research Council (PERC)
Thomas Damsgaard
Head of the Americas
BIMCO
Jeffrey DeCoux
Chairman
Autonomy Institute
Col. Michael Fossum USAFR (RET.)
Chief Operating Officer
Texas A&M University at Galveston
Helen Hogg
Energy Infrastructure Transition Marketing Manager
Ricardo
Robert Hawn
Vice President, Maritime Affairs
West Gulf Maritime Association (WGMA)
Brian P. Hill
Director, Western Gulf Gateway
U.S. Maritime Administration Dept. of Transportation
Geir-Eilif Kalhagen
Director of Maritime
Texas Dept. of Transportation
Vesa Koivumaa
Head of Growth, Americas
Wärtsilä Voyage
Megan O’Leary
Director of Operations
Blue Sky Maritime Coalition
Sharmila Tilwalli O’Leary
Client Partner
IBM Consulting
Berto Ponce
Co-Founder and CEO
AI Strategic Solutions
Jean-Paul Rodrigue, PhD
Professor
Texas A&M University at Galveston
Kathy Roeder
Executive Chief of Staff
Port of Seattle
Hady Salloum, PhD
Professor
University of Houston
Elliott Vera
Americas Technology Project Manager
Shell Shipping and Maritime
Program Staff
Kevin M. Clement
Director
Port of the Future Conference
Masters of Ceremony
Joel Aud
Principal
Lean Tail Labs
Julio Gonzalez
President and CEO
Sentinel
Lisbeth Laurie
Port of the Future Conference