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Sam is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of the Simply Blue Group. A civil engineer by profession, he established Swirish International with his Swedish wife.

This group of companies has interests in real estate in Western Sweden and Eastern Germany along with investments in the Food and Beverage, Agriculture and Renewables sectors. Sam has founded and developed a number of companies in the EU, Asia and the US including Delaney’s Irish pub chain in Asia and Swirish Property AB in Sweden.

Sam is Director of Sustainability & Climate Resilience at Tetra Tech Europe. She leads a broad portfolio of projects for public and private sector clients including provision of advisory services under secondment to Simply Blue Group in floating offshore wind. She is a member of the Marine Renewable Industry Association, representing Northern Ireland interests.

In her former role, she was Director of the Centre for Advanced Sustainable Energy, an industry-led research centre, funded by Invest NI and hosted by Queen’s University Belfast. Over her 10-year tenure she oversaw funding of £10m to 35+ projects, involving 80 companies. Over £2m of funding was directed to marine renewable energy projects (between TRL 3 – 7) including several tidal energy testing campaigns on Strangford Lough. She is a Fellow of the Energy Institute and Vice-Chair of the Workspace Group, a leading Northern

Michael is a chartered chemical engineer with extensive management, operations, business development and commercial experience. He has over 16 years experience in the Energy Industry working for several multi-national corporations.

Michael began his career in the Oil & Gas industry, in the production of conventional and renewable transport fuels. Michael has joined the Simply Blue Team to manage technical and commercial studies for new project concepts in the blue economy. His projects will focus on Power-to-X, Green H2 and connectivity. Michael previously managed a large portfolio of projects for an engineering consultancy, taking projects from early stage concepts through design, construction and commissioning. He will develop and nurture relationships with our strategic partners and stakeholders.

Sandie Wilson has in excess of 20 years working in the ports and harbours industry on capital infrastructure projects and new services, and day-to-day operations and marine and land estate management. This includes working with multiple sectors such as dry, liquid and boxed cargoes, shipping, energy, defence, waste, fisheries and pollution response as examples. She has performed industry, consultancy and regulatory related roles offering project management capability, and specialist consenting and environmental management expertise.

As Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Marine Power Systems, Gareth has overseen MPS through the feasibility, proof of concept and medium scale prototype development stages and now working at grid-connected megawatt-scale ahead of commercialisation.

Gareth has over 18 years of industrial experience, all of which has been in the environment of high-tech R&D and start-ups. Gareth is a qualified mechanical engineer with an MEng in Marine Renewables and gained a PhD from Swansea University.

As Chief Technical Officer and co-founder of Marine Power Systems, Graham has overall responsibility for their product portfolio of marine energy generation extraction hardware and the associated development strategy.

Graham has over 22 years industrial experience, 17 of which has been spent leading high value & high-tech R&D. Graham is a qualified mechanical engineer and gained a PhD from Swansea University.