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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.
Food Innovation Director
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 keeping the Atlantic Sea Farms facility in top shape. Pete also manages the production and packaging of the beautiful kelp once it is harvested and delivered to our facility in Saco. Pete loves the ocean and maritime history and is thrilled to be a part of diversifying Maine aquaculture with ASF.
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!
Kelp Innovation Specialist
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. On land, Liz, has a background operating aquatic systems that she is excited to contribute and expand in the Atlantic Sea Farms nursery!
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.
