Meet our CEOs

Steven Rafferty, CEO of Cermaq The sustainable transition of the food system is a top priority for Cermaq, a leading global salmon producer. Still, it wasn’t immediately clear to CEO Steven Rafferty that SeaBOS was the right forum for Cermaq’s efforts in this area. Today, he enthusiastically champions SeaBOS’ ability to drive development forward on […]

Charoen Pokphand Foods PCL (CP Foods) is a global leader in the integrated agro-industrial and food business sector. COO Dr. Sujint Thammasart recognises that the company shares many high-level sustainability goals with SeaBOS, making the forum a perfect fit for driving marine sustainability efforts on a global scale. CP Foods delivers high-quality, clean and safe […]

SeaBOS is unique because it is the first time nine of the world’s largest seafood companies collaborate with science to implement a joint vision to develop more sustainable seafood production and improved ocean health. But what convinced each of these companies to join the initiative and what do they ultimately hope to achieve with it? […]

Maruha Nichiro has grown from a small fishing business 140 years ago, into one of the world’s leading integrated food companies today. For President and CEO Masaru Ikemi, being one of the giants in the industry brings with it a special responsibility to lead the way when it comes to sustainability. And from the start, […]

For Helene Ziv-Douki, President of Cargill Aqua Nutrition, SeaBOS exemplifies the saying that alone you can go fast, but together you can go further The ten members of the SeaBOS initiative are what researchers call “keystone actors”. It refers to a concept developed in the 1960s by the American ecologist R.T Paine who described how […]

For Thiraphong Chansiri, President and CEO of Thai Union, bringing together the world’s largest seafood companies to find solutions to the industry’s most intractable problems was a natural fit for his own company’s ambitions SeaBOS is unique because it is the first time ten of the world’s largest seafood companies collaborate with science to implement […]

We asked the CEOs from each company to share their vision and ambitions about SeaBOS and the future of their industry. For Dr. Myoung-Woo Lee, CEO of Dongwon Industries, the initiative represents a solution to a daunting challenge To understand why Dr. Lee is committed to the work of SeaBOS, we need to talk about […]