Rear Admiral Wayne R. Arguin, Jr.

Assistant Commandant for Prevention Policy (CG-5P)
U.S. Coast Guard

Michael Arnett

Protective Security Advisor
Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency
Department of Homeland Security

Kenneth Aud

Flood Early Warning System
City of Austin, Texas

Ed Backlund, P.E.

Regional Lead
Ports & Terminals Hatch

Peter Beard

Senior Vice President, Regional Workforce Development
Greater Houston Partnership

Thomas C. Beck

Senior Vice President
The Howland Group, Inc.

William Beer, PhD

Chief Executive Officer
Tunley Environmental

CAPT Peter J. Bergeron

U. S. Coast Guard (Ret)
Senior Director, Public Safety & Security
Canaveral Port Authority

Konstantin Borozdin, PhD

Principal Scientific Advisor
Decision Sciences International Corporation

Pablo Bowen-Bobenrieth

HPC Vice President Americas and Associate Partner
HPC Hamburg Port Consulting GmbH

James R. Bryant

Principal Consultant
R. Byrant and Associates

Matthew Butram

Strategic Ports Program & MARAD NATO Support Office of Sealift Support (MAR-630) Maritime Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation

Rich Byrnes

Chief Infrastructure Officer
Port Houston

CAPT Eric Carrero (USCG, Ret)

President
Greater Houston Port Bureau

Chad Carson

Vice President, Economic Development
Economic Alliance Houston Port Region

Steve Catha

CEO
The Touchstone Group

Chett Chiasson

Executive Director
Greater Lafourche Port Commission/Port Fourchon

Sam Cho

Commissioner
Port of Seattle

Kenneth Christopher, D.P.A.

Professor and Academic Program Director
Homeland Security and Emergency Management
National University

Kevin M. Clement

Executive Director
Port of the Future Conference
BTI Institute, University of Houston

Gabriel Collins

Baker Botts Fellow in Energy & Environmental Regulator Affairs
Baker Institute for Public Policy
Rice University

Richard Conrad

Acting Section Chief, Stakeholder Engagement Team
Office of Biometric Identity Management
Department of Homeland Security

Brian Cox

Chief Operations Officer
Port of South Louisiana

Juan Carlos Croston

Vice President Marketing & Corporate Affairs
Manzanillo International Terminal – Panama
(MIT-Panama)

David Cummins

Executive Director, President and CEO Blue Sky Maritime Coalition

Thomas Damsgaard

Head of Americas
BIMCO

Justin Davis

Head of Strategy
Saronic Technologies

Olga Davletalieva

Head of Ports Advisory Services
Wärtsilä

Jeffrey DeCoux

Chairman
Autonomy Institute

Dr. Joe Direnzo III

Director of Research Partnerships
U.S. Coast Guard Research and Development Center

Captain Keith M. Donohue

Commander
Sector Houston-Galveston
U.S. Coast Guard

Meg Dowling

Sr Engineer II, Nuclear
American Bureau of Shipping

Mark Dubina

Vice President, Security
Port Tampa Bay

Robert R. Dubois

Director
Lamar University

Jorge Duran

Chief of Section
Inter-American Committee on Ports
Organization of American States

Scott Edwards

Director, Regulatory Development
CorePower

Waleid Gamal Eldien

Chairman
Suez Canal Economic Zone

Rosana Ellis

Chief Executive Officer
PhDsoft Technology Inc

Jan Emblemsvåg

Professor
Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Kirsten Foot, PhD

CEO & Executive Director
Businesses Ending Slavery and Trafficking (BEST)

COL Michael Fossum (USAFR, Ret)

Superintendent
Texas A&M Maritime Academy
Texas A&M at Galveston

Niel Furukawa

CEO/Founder
AKUA Inc

Geoffrey Gauthier

Commercial and New Business Development Manager, Shipping and Maritime Shell

Julio R. Gonzalez

Supervisory Protective Security Advisor- Gulf of Mexico U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

Pierre-Luc Gosselin

Director Business Intelligence
Quebec Port Authority

Natascha A. Gutermuth

Lead Program Manager
Biometrics Program Office
U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Jeremy Hansen

Protective Security Advisor
Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency
Department of Homeland Security

John Hark, Jr.

Regional Director
Bertling Logistics

Robert Hawn

Vice President, Maritime Affairs
WGMA

Charles Edward Haymaker

Head of Energy Infrastructure
Americas Blue Water Shipping

M. Kelly Hendry

President
Hendry Marine Industries

Alfred B. Henson, PhD

Instructional Assistant Professor University of Houston

Earl Hersh

Founder
No More Carbon USA

Brian P. Hill

Director, Western Gulf Gateway U.S. Maritime Administration Dept. of Transportation

Keziah Hill

Maritime Transportation Management Program Coordinator
Texas Southern University

James Nash

Director, Maritime Affairs
WGMA

Jeroen Kats

Project Director
Portwise

Suhaib Kaissi

University of Houston

Geir-Eilif Kalhagen

Director of Maritime Texas Dept. of Transportation

Brooke Kennedy

Senior Manager
Deloitte

Margaret A. Kidd

Program Director/Instructional Associate Professor, Supply Chain & Logistics University of Houston

Vesa Koivumaa

Head of Growth
Wartsila Voyage

Fritz Kuebler

Director of Business Development
RPower

Michael Lai, P.E.

Regional Ports and Terminals Lead
Hatch

Lisbeth Laurie

Program Manager of Maritime and Port Security Program of the Inter-American Committee against Terrorism (CICTE)
Organization of American States

Andrea LaVorgna

Marketing Manager and Editor
Port Bureau News
Greater Houston Port Bureau

David C. Lewis

Chairman and CEO
Energy Capital Vietnam

Mark Longridge

Capital Project Manager
Waterfront Project Management Group
Port of Seattle

Kevin Lopes, PhD

Director of Business Strategy & Marketing
ThayerMahan

Argelis Moreno Lopez

Senior Forecast and Market Analysis Specialist
Liner Services Segment
Panama Canal Authority

CAPT Randall Lund

Senior Marine Risk Consultant
Allianz Commercial Insurance

Morten Siem Lynge

Consul General
Kingdom of Denmark

Janine M. Mansour

Head of Key Accounts
Port of New Orleans

William Marshall

Freight Program Manager
The Electrification Coalition

Carmen Gisela Vergara Mas

Ambassador
General Administrator
PROPANAMA

Ed McCarthy

Chief Operations Officer
Georgia Ports

John D. McCown

Non-Resident Senior Fellow Center for Maritime Strategy

Jeff McLeod

Specialist Leader
Deloitte

Lester Millet III

Safety Risk Agency Manager
Port South Louisiana

Raymond Monzon

Supervisory Supply Chain Security Specialist
U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Robert Moorcroft, PhD

Carbon Reduction Scientist
Tunley Environmental

Christopher Morris

Fellow
Los Alamos National Laboratory

John Moseley

Chief Commercial Officer
Port Houston

Sanjay Mukhi

Collaboration Manager
National Reactor Innovation Center

Mo Najafi, PhD

Director of CUIRE
University of Texas Arlington

Ralf Nielsen

Vice President, Business Development
PowerCon

Driss El Ouigary

Port Director
Port Tanger Med

Lorena Parada-Valdes

Organizational Development Manager
Port of Corpus Christi

COL Warren Parker (USMC, Ret)

COO
Maritime Cybersecurity Institute
South Carolina

Andrew Pau

Partner
Deloitte

Alexandra Pierce

Tourism Manager
City of Juneau and Port Juneau, AK

Marco Poisler

Chief Operating Officer – Global Energy & Capital Projects UTC Overseas, Inc.

Kevin Pollari

Principal
Deloitte

Dwain Powell

Vice President, Port Community System Operator
Port Authority of Jamaica

Scott Puckett

Senior Marine Engineer
Shell Shipping & Maritime

Jesper Raakjær, PhD

Group Chief Visionary Officer
Port of Aalborg

Steve Recca

Director
University and Agency Partnership Program
Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Center for Homeland Defense and Security

Rodger Rees

Port Director and CEO
Galveston Wharves

Craig Rhodes

Vice President, Regional Economic Development
Greater Houston Partnership

Alan A. Robb

President
South Atlantic and Gulf Coast District
International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA)

Jean-Paul Rodrigue, PhD

Author and Professor
Department of Maritime Business Administration
Texas A&M – Galveston

Leslie Ruta

Director of Planning
Port of Corpus Christi

Phyllis Saathoff

Executive Director and CEO
Port of Freeport

Hady Salloum, PhD

Professor
University of Houston

Roman Sandoval

CEO/Founder
Allosense

Rohit Saxena

Director, Facility Planning
Planning

Rick Schiappacasse

Director, Special Projects
Jacksonville Port Authority

Mark Schrupp

Executive Director
Detroit/Wayne County Port Authority

Rick Siebenaler

Chief Executive Officer
Maritime Cybersecurity Institute

Justin Slater

Vice President, Business Development
Fincantieri Marine Group

Jeremy Smith, Ph.D

Professor of Transportation and Logistics
Keiser University

Ambassador Juan B. Sosa (Retired)

Republic of Panama

Brayton Sparks

Private Wireless Sales Manager
NOKIA

Jennifer States

Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer
Blue Sky Maritime Coalition

John Stauffer

Associate Vice Chancellor
San Jacinto College

Rob Tagg

Senior Principal Naval Architect
Herbert Engineering Corporation

Arman Tanman

Mechanical/Environmental Engineer
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Joel Thigpen

General Manager,
Marine New Build Sales
Wärtsilä

Frank Tuffner

Power Systems Research Engineer
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Arnie Tyler

President
MerLion Advisory Group

Bryan J. Ulmer

Chief, International Port Security Operations
U.S. Coast Guard

Nuno Vendeirinho

Business Development Manager
Rightship

Elliott Vera

Americas Technology Project Manager
Shell Shipping and Maritime

Dr. Alok Verma

Department Head and Professor Texas A&M University – Galveston

Greg Villano

Critical Infrastructure Protection – OT Cyber
Deloitte

Juan Vitali, Ph.D.

Chief, Nuclear Power
U.S. Army

David A. Walker

Vice President
American Bureau of Shipping (ABS)

Ian Walter

CEO
Net Feasa

Rear Admiral Joel R. Whitehead (USCG, Retired)

President
J. Whitehead and Associates, Inc.

Delmas Whittaker

Director, Marine Maintenance
Port Seattle

Roy Wilson

President & General Partner
Cameron Kinston Associates

Jasper Wognum

President & General Partner
Brain Creations

Kathleen Yurchesyn

Vice President
Operations and Corporate Development
Novaporte