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President/CEO
Briana has dedicated her life to doing well by doing good. She is passionate about our incredible home state of Maine and working with our partner farmers to help create a more resilient and thriving coast. Since taking over as CEO at Atlantic Sea Farms in 2018, she and her team have expanded the company to work with 24 partner farmers from Portland to Eastport. Bri has followed a winding path that brought her to kelp - including serving several tours as a diplomat in the U.S. Foreign Service, starting and selling a wholesale bakery in Portland focused on pies with an international flair and employing recent refugees resettled to the area, and creating the first Economic Development programming suite at the Maine-based Island Institute. She is an avid gardener, an obsessive cook, and a proud mother of two rad sons. In 2020, Bri was named an Eating Well Magazine Food Hero, awarded the Specialty Foods Association's Business Leadership Award, and had the honor of sitting on several state, national, and global aquaculture and business policy boards. She also believes that she happens to lead the very best team of people in the natural foods space - and challenges you to prove her wrong.
Sales & Marketing Director
Jesse has spent her career promoting food with integrity and activating the edible approach to healthy communities, economies, and environments. Before joining Atlantic Sea Farms in 2019, Jesse worked with mission driven food and beverage companies to tell their sustainability stories and educate consumers. Jesse, a native Midcoast Mainer, is deeply and proudly rooted in the Maine lobster industry.
Director of Quality and Food Innovation
Pete joined Ocean Approved in 2019 after over a decade in food manufacturing in the chocolate, dairy, and beverage industries. Pete's background focuses on Quality Assurance and food safety and he is responsible for making sure our kelp products are delicious and healthy. Pete loves the ocean and maritime history and is thrilled to be a part of ASF's mission to help make our coast more resilient in the face of climate change.
Retail Sales Manager
Zoe is an enthusiastic and impactful personality in the national natural food community, and a proud Mainer with a deep passion for the ocean and our working waterfronts, as well as brands on a mission to make a positive impact. Before joining Atlantic Sea Farms, Zoe worked with Maine brands Sea Bags and GrandyOats. Zoe brings a fresh perspective to the ever changing marketplace and her excitement for the social and environmental mission of Atlantic Sea Farms is contagious!
Continuous Improvement & Sustainability Manager
Casey is passionate about building an abundance of regenerative food products. As an environmentalist at his core, he is dedicated to finding solutions that improve the health of our food system without compromising the health of our planet. Prior to joining Atlantic Sea Farms, Casey did procurement and sustainability at B.GOOD, while also running a small mixed vegetable test farm for the company. He is excited to be back in Maine and working to grow Atlantic Sea Farms!
Seaweed Supply and Advancement Manager
Liz has always been in awe of the ocean, feeling her best at the beach, the dock or banding bugs on her partner’s lobster boat. Dedicating her life to all things ‘salty’ led her to Maine in 2010, where she has been farming the cool, clean, waters of the Gulf of Maine since 2016. While on the water crew at Bangs Island Mussels, she cultivated native mussels, scallops and kelp in Casco Bay. She has collaborated with researchers at the University of New England and the US Naval Academy on a Department of Energy aarp-e MARINER award to create a validated hydrodynamic model, using oceanographic instrumentation along with full scale kelp farms in Saco Bay. She is a published author in multiple scientific journals and has presented her research nationally. Liz is responsible for developing and advancing our farming partnerships to bring on the best partners and help them grow fantastic kelp!
Seaweed Supply & Innovation Manager
Thew spends a lot of time thinking about kelp. From the incredible biodiversity of wild kelp beds to its phenomenal growth rates, kelp occupies a lot of his head-space. His studies and research have taken him from the giant kelp forests of California into the Arctic and throughout the North Atlantic. He is passionate about sustainable aquaculture, believes deeply in diversifying Maine’s working waterfronts and looks forward to expanding our kelp nursery and seaweed innovation at Atlantic Sea Farms.
Production Manager
Don became a member of Atlantic sea farms in 2021. He has over 20 years experience as a production manager in the folding carton industry. Don was born and raised in Maine and moved to Texas for 9 years. He moved back to Maine to be with family and to be closer to the ocean and wilderness. Don is very excited to be part of the Atlantic sea farms team and will be managing all production and production efficiencies.
