Matthew Morin

Matthew Morin is the Co-Founder, along with his brother, Kevin, of MarkSetBot, the world’s first robotic race buoy.

Pınar Coskuner Genç

Pınar Coskuner Genç is involved in the world of sailing as international race officer, judge, umpire and administrator.

Hendrik Plate

Hendrik is a Naval Architect, COO and Head of Product Development at Greenboats, with practical and research experience in natural fibre composites for maritime and other structural applications,

Terry Hutchinson

Terry Hutchinson is a distinguished American sailor and a veteran America’s Cup competitor with participation in six America’s Cup cycles.

Julia Castro

With a background in professional kitesurfing, Julia Castro, born in the Canary Islands, is a social media expert with a knack for elevating major sailing events’ digital presence.

Conrad Colman

Conrad Colman is a New Zealand – American solo offshore racing sailor based in France.

Gianguido Girotti

Gianguido Girotti is Group Beneteau Deputy CEO & Boat division CEO

David Graham

David Graham has served as Chief Executive Officer of World Sailing, the global governing body for the sport, since July 2020.

Marcus Warrelmann

Marcus Warrelmann is the CEO of SEA.AI, known for his strategic leadership in business scaling. With a mechanical engineering background from Deutsche Bahn,

Soco Nunez de Cela

Soco Nuñez de Cela is the chair of the Magenta Project. She is a passionate amateur sailor, who has done three Fastnet races and Two Caribbean 600 among others. 

Arnaud Cacquevel

Specialized in BtoB marketing and communication, I work on the development and transitions of the sailing sector, which includes competitive sailing,

Mickael Brossard

Mickael is a partner with QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey. He is an expert in technological approaches as well as digital transformation of R&D departments.

Imogen Dinham-Price

Imogen specialised in sustainability at the University of Southampton. First taking her learnings to the agricultural sector before jumping across to the marine sector.

Rowan Gyde

Rowan specialises in commercial strategy for marine companies, advising industry leaders in the technology and performance sectors.

Damian Foxall

Damian Foxall (born 7 March 1969) is an Irish sailor from County Kerry. He has competed and worked with eleven round-the-world race teams which including four 1st place wins.

Emmanuel Versace

Cyril Dardashti

Dr. Phil Richardson

Dr. Phil Richardson works with advanced wind sensing applications at FT Technologies, focusing on acoustic resonance for precise wind

Amy Munro

Amy Munro studied oceanography at the University of Southampton before embarking on a career in the sports industry, focusing on sustainability strategy creation and implementation.

Erwan Faoucher

After obtaining in 2006 an engineering degree in material science (normandy) and a PhD in chemistry in 2010 from Liverpool University,

Luca Rizzotti

Luca is a foiling ambassador. Founder and president of the Foiling Week, a unique community event with wide ranging programs in research and education.

Scott Dougal

Scott Dougal is the Director of Communications and Digital at World Sailing, a position he has held since March 2022.

Meg Reilly

Meg Reilly is a circumnavigator, entrepreneur and marketing consultant. Before quitting her day job to race around the world, Meg worked on Madison Avenue in Global Corporate Communications at Y&R.

Shirley Robertson

Shirley Robertson OBE made history by becoming the first British woman to win Olympic Gold Medals at two consecutive Olympic Games.

Victoria Low

With three decades of experience in the yachting industry, Victoria currently heads up the World Sailing Trust, the official charity affiliated to the governing body of sailing.

Benoit Lebizay

An avid sailor his whole life, Benoit Lebizay jumped ship from the finance industry to build yachts. He now manages Gunboat.

Richard Brisius

Richard Brisius is the co-CEO of The Ocean Race alongside Johan Salén. He brings extensive experience in leading international complex teams, projects and events.

Hervé Favre

Hervé Favre is the chairman of OC Sport , the international sports event division of the French Media Telegramme Group (www.groupetelegramme.com)

Joseph Bizard

Since June 2024, he was appointed CEO of OC Sport in charge of both Sailing and Outdoor events activities.

Christian Dumard

Christian Dumard has been professional navigator during the 80s and the 90s (Corum Sailing Team, French America’s Cup Team). Christian has being doing weather routing and pre race weather analysis for the racing boats for the past 20 years (Trophée Jules Verne, Volvo Ocean Race, Figaro sailors, Route du Rhum, …). Great Circle was founded…

Håkan Svensson

Håkan Svensson, from Sweden, is the owner of Aston Harald. Keen sailor. Businessman. Has worked in the Marine Industry since early 90’s, in propulsion, shipbuilding, carbon fibre.

Anne-Cécile Turner

Anne-Cécile is an award-winning sustainability expert. Experienced in driving positive change through international platforms, her work is supported by her impressive qualifications and training from The Tavistock Institute, Harvard’s Executive Leadership Program and WWF.