WHO WE ARE

SeaBOS Fundraising Foundation board

A Foundation established in Stockholm, Sweden with an independent Board of Directors including science, industry, and external members. The Board has financial and strategic responsibility for the initiative, employs the Secretariat, stewards resources, and facilitates strategic exchange amongst the secretariat, science team leadership, and CEOs.

Chair

Dr. Henrik Österblom

Professor, The Anthropocene Laboratory, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Henrik Österblom has a PhD in marine ecology from Stockholm University, where he is professor of environmental science. He is chair of the Natural Capital Partnership Committee, Stanford University, chairman of the SeaBOS fundraising foundation and board member of Race for the Baltic fundraising foundation. He has served as theme leader, deputy science director and science director at the Stockholm Resilience Centre between 2007 and 2022. Starting from 2023, he is leading the Anthropocene Laboratory at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Carl Folke

Professor, Founder and Chair of the Board, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University. Director of The Beijer Institute, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Carl Folke is a systems thinker in integrative science for sustainability. He has broken new interdisciplinary ground across the natural and social sciences and contributed to the development of new areas of research, concepts and approaches that have spread in science, education, policy and practice and more recently into the business community. His major research focus is on social-ecological systems and resilience thinking and he is recognised as a leader in these research areas worldwide. He is an elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the US National Academy of Sciences.

Thiraphong Chansiri

President and CEO, Thai Union

Thiraphong steers Thai Union’s global business and growth strategies. He has extensive experience in business management, most notably in the area of mergers and acquisitions. Since 1995, Thiraphong has managed the expansion of the company’s global brand portfolio, which includes markets-leading international brands Chicken of the Sea (U.S.), John West (U.K.), Petit Navire (France), Parmentier (France), Mareblu (Italy), King Oscar (Norway) and Rügen Fisch (Germany), and leading Thai brands Sealect, Fisho and Bellotta. In March 2016, Thiraphong was awarded ‘No. 1 Best CEO in Thailand’ in an annual Asia’s Best Managed Companies Poll by FinanceAsia. Thiraphong was also awarded the Best CEO under the Agro & Food Industry category for the 7th consecutive year by the annual Investment Analysis Association (IAA) 2015/2016 poll. Thiraphong joined Thai Union Group in 1988. Prior to his appointment as President and CEO, he held several executive positions within the Group. Thiraphong received an MBA from the University Of San Francisco, California and a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing from Assumption University, Bangkok. His interests include marathon running, reading, and collecting works of art.

Helene Ziv-Douki

President, Cargill Aqua Nutrition

Helene Ziv-Douki is President and Group Leader for Cargill’s global Aqua Nutrition business within the Animal Nutrition & Health Enterprise (ANH). With more than 2,000 employees in 16 countries and 40 plants, Cargill Aqua Nutrition is one of the largest suppliers of aqua feed in the world. Helene is a proven leader with a track record for building, growing and transforming businesses while delivering for customers and her team. She has a passion for customer-driven sustainability and is proud Cargill Aqua Nutrition is making a positive impact for the planet together with customers and suppliers. Helene has been promoting diversity and inclusion her entire career and is known for being a people-first leader with a strong focus on developing teams and talent.

Dr. Naoko Ishii

Board Director for the SeaBOS Fundraising Foundation

Dr. Naoko Ishii is a professor and executive vice president at the University of Tokyo, where she is also an inaugural director for the Center for Global Commons, of which mission is to catalyze systems change so that humans can achieve sustainable development within planetary boundaries. She is of a view that academia can and should play an active role in mobilizing movements with policymakers, business and civil society towards a shared goal of nurturing stewardship of the global commons; stable and resilient planetary earth system. Under her vision, the Center for Global Commons has been collaborating with reputable international research institutions in the area of sustainability, and launching projects with Japanese business focusing on energy transition, food system, and circular economy. Before joining the university in 2020, Dr. Ishii served the Global Environment Facility (GEF) as CEO and chairperson. During her tenure of 2012 to 2020, she formed GEF’s first mid-term strategy, GEF 2020, focusing on the transformation of key economic systems and collaborating with multi-stakeholder coalitions. She holds a B.A. in economics and a Ph.D. in international development, both from the University of Tokyo. She published several books among which two are awarded by academic prizes.

Martin Exel

Managing Director, SeaBOS

Martin has been in the seafood sector for over 40 years. He has been with Austral Fisheries since 1997, and held other roles such as Chair of the international Coalition of Legal Toothfish Operators; member and Chair of Australian Industry Associations; and Board member of the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies. He worked for the Australian Government for 12 years, culminating in 5 years as General Manager Fisheries at the Australian Fisheries Management Authority and, earlier, spent several years as a deckhand on demersal longline and trawl vessels. He holds a BSc from Victoria University of Wellington (NZ), a Graduate Diploma in Fisheries Technology from the Australian Maritime College, and is a passionate recreational angler.

SeaBOS Association

An Association between SeaBOS companies with Members at CEO, COO, or President level only, to promote actions to achieve a healthy ocean, and a sustainable fishing and aquaculture industry. The SeaBOS Association creates a shared culture of expectations across members, and provides encouragement, support, and continuity across the companies, as well as recommendations to the Fundraising Foundation on activities and finances. The Association provides financial contributions to the SeaBOS Fundraising Foundation, and member executives are involved with Task Forces, Keystone Projects, and other SeaBOS activities.

Chair

Thiraphong Chansiri

President and CEO, Thai Union

Thiraphong steers Thai Union’s global business and growth strategies. He has extensive experience in business management, most notably in the area of mergers and acquisitions. Since 1995, Thiraphong has managed the expansion of the company’s global brand portfolio, which includes markets-leading international brands Chicken of the Sea (U.S.), John West (U.K.), Petit Navire (France), Parmentier (France), Mareblu (Italy), King Oscar (Norway) and Rügen Fisch (Germany), and leading Thai brands Sealect, Fisho and Bellotta. In March 2016, Thiraphong was awarded ‘No. 1 Best CEO in Thailand’ in an annual Asia’s Best Managed Companies Poll by FinanceAsia. Thiraphong was also awarded the Best CEO under the Agro & Food Industry category for the 7th consecutive year by the annual Investment Analysis Association (IAA) 2015/2016 poll. Thiraphong joined Thai Union Group in 1988. Prior to his appointment as President and CEO, he held several executive positions within the Group. Thiraphong received an MBA from the University Of San Francisco, California and a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing from Assumption University, Bangkok. His interests include marathon running, reading, and collecting works of art.

Vice Chair

Helene Ziv-Douki

President, Cargill Aqua Nutrition

Helene Ziv-Douki is President and Group Leader for Cargill’s global Aqua Nutrition business within the Animal Nutrition & Health Enterprise (ANH). With more than 2,000 employees in 16 countries and 40 plants, Cargill Aqua Nutrition is one of the largest suppliers of aqua feed in the world. Helene is a proven leader with a track record for building, growing and transforming businesses while delivering for customers and her team. She has a passion for customer-driven sustainability and is proud Cargill Aqua Nutrition is making a positive impact for the planet together with customers and suppliers. Helene has been promoting diversity and inclusion her entire career and is known for being a people-first leader with a strong focus on developing teams and talent.

Member committee

Steven Rafferty

CEO, Cermaq

Steven Rafferty took up the position as CEO in March 2022. He joined Cermaq in 2008 holding the position as CFO and later COO Farming in Cermaq until 2010. He re-joined Cermaq in 2019 as Managing Director in Chile. Rafferty has a broad experience from aquaculture since 1993 and has been executive in some global companies with positions as MD of Skretting, CFO of Morpol and CFO in Mowi, Steven Rafferty has been working in UK, Chile, USA, The Netherlands and Norway during his career.

Member committee

Dr. Sujint Thammasart

Chief Operating Officer - Aquaculture Business, Charoen Pokphand Foods Company Limited (CPF)

Dr. Sujint Thammasart graduated with honors in Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine from Kasetsart University in 1978. Since then, he has been working for Charoen Pokphand Group. In the beginning, he was responsible for health and diseases prevention for poultry, pig and dogs in CP Group. Later, he was assigned to be in charge of Pet Food Nutrition and other animals not in the main species. When CP Group started to invest in marine shrimp culture business in 1985, he became Managing Director of this project and also spent a total of 7 years in Shrimp Culture Business Indonesia where the largest shrimp farm in the world is located to design and operate shrimp farm business. Since 2016, he has been a Chief Operating Officer for Aquaculture Business and responsible for CP Aquaculture Business on Production and R&D Unit. His core responsibilities are shrimp and fish farming, shrimp & fish hatcheries, genetic improvement and broodstock, aquatic feedmill, and the research and development unit including formula and feed nutrition on aquatic animal. He has also been responsible for CP's aquaculture projects worldwide.

Member committee

Masaru Ikemi

President and CEO, Maruha Nichiro Corporation

Masaru Ikemi joined Maruha Nichiro in 1981 after graduating Kyoto University (Department of Fisheries / Faculty of Agriculture). He has more than 30 years of experience in overseas operations; managed Solomon Taiyo Limited, skipjack fishing and canned foods producing company co-founded by the Government of Solomon Islands, and also took command of the subsidiaries in Asia joining the management of Kingfisher Holdings Ltd. in Thailand. His activity at Kingfisher Holdings started in 1999 with 5-year assignment, followed by another 4-year assignment from 2010. After managing the Corporate Planning Department as the General Manager, in 2017 he was appointed as the Director and the Managing Executive Officer in charge of managing corporate administrations such as general affairs, personnel, investor relations and public relations, accounting, finance, and internal auditing. Since April 2020 he has been leading the entire business of the company on his present position.

Bastiaan van Tilburg

CEO Skretting/Member Nutreco Management Board

Bastiaan joined Nutreco in January 2019, at Nutreco’s Livestock feed business line, Trouw Nutrition, as General Manager for the Benelux, Scandinavia and France before becoming Managing Director for Trouw Nutrition Europe & Central Asia in November 2022. Bastiaan took over as CEO for Skretting, Nutreco’s aquaculture business line, in June 2024, joining Nutreco’s Management Board at the same time. Before joining Nutreco, Bastiaan worked in various commercial and operational leadership roles at SHV daughter company, Makro in Brazil. Prior to joining Makro, he worked at Royal Dutch Shell for four years. Bastiaan studied at the University of Groningen and holds a Bachelor and Master of Arts in International Organisation and International Relations. Bastiaan has extensive knowledge and expertise in the agri-industry and has a passion for sustainable farming. He is committed to driving business growth through investment and innovation and developing and delivering strategies across the value chain from feed and nutrition to salmon farming, salmon sales, and seafood processing. “I’m passionate about sustainable and healthy solutions to farming across the full supply chain, without a doubt the biggest challenges facing our industry right now. Building on Skretting’s strong team spirit and culture, our world class innovations and our great reputation, I am sure will bring great success for our teams, our customers and support our vision for Feeding the Future.”

Shingo Hamada

President and CEO of Nissui

Shingo Hamada holds a master’s degree in fisheries science from Tokyo University and joined Nissui in 1983. He started his career in the Central Laboratory and after that he moved to the Food Products Division in 1995, then held positions such as a manager of processing plants in Japan, the CEO of a joint venture company in China and the person responsible of the Dpt. of Production Control, Product Development as well. He supervised the Food Products Division as a managing director from 2017 and then served as the COO supporting the former President Mr.Matono. He took over the President and CEO of Nissui from Mr. Matono in June 2021. Most of his career in Nissui is related to food processing plants and production control, so he has abundant experience and knowledge in these fields.

Eun Hong Min

CEO, Dongwon Industries

Eun Hong Min took up the position as CEO in December 2022. Prior to joining Dongwon Group in 2021, he was equipped with 28 years' experience in end-to-end integrated sales operation, multiple brand market strategy & planning, customer centric job and strong stewardship governace in the commodity, skin and cosmetic industry. He is very competent with successfully resolving various business issues by leveraging end-to-end approach and utilizing both macroscopic and microscopic views. Having such global experience through various channels and countries such as 10 ASEAN countries, North East Asia and Great China, he was able to grasp strategic decision to grow the business and execute trade marketing to embrace the organization.

Secretariat

Employed by the Fundraising Foundation, the secretariat supports members in achieving goals through facilitating communication, documentation, administration, and logistics of the initiative; manages and facilitates relations within the initiative, as well as with key external partners, and provides support to the various groups across SeaBOS.

Martin Exel

Managing Director, SeaBOS

Martin has been in the seafood sector for over 40 years. He has been with Austral Fisheries since 1997, and held other roles such as Chair of the international Coalition of Legal Toothfish Operators; member and Chair of Australian Industry Associations; and Board member of the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies. He worked for the Australian Government for 12 years, culminating in 5 years as General Manager Fisheries at the Australian Fisheries Management Authority and, earlier, spent several years as a deckhand on demersal longline and trawl vessels. He holds a BSc from Victoria University of Wellington (NZ), a Graduate Diploma in Fisheries Technology from the Australian Maritime College, and is a passionate recreational angler.

Wenche Grønbrekk

Director of Strategy, Partnerships, and External Relations, SeaBOS

Wenche is an experienced leader in sustainable business globally. Building on over 15 years of experience in corporate sustainability and policy, she is currently the Director of Strategy and Partnerships in the science-business initiative SeaBOS and the founder of Wega Advisory. Since its foundation in 2018, she has been the Chair of UN Global Compact Norway, and founding member of the UN Global Compact's Ocean Stewardship Coalition, working with business, policy makers, science and the UN system to build awareness of the critical role of ocean stewardship in the 2030 Agenda. Prior to joining SeaBOS in January 2022, Wenche was Global Head of Sustainable Development in Cermaq Group; a management consultant in PwC, and a project manager in DNV GL, working on international renewable energy projects. She has experience from the Norwegian Foreign Service, in journalism, the EU system and the World Bank.

Ellinor Örnrud

Director´s assistant

Ellinor joined SeaBOS as an Executive Assistant in January 2021 and has several years’ previous experience as an executive assistant and has worked both for the Artistic and Creative Director at Stockholm Concert Hall as well as for executives at Microsoft Sweden and Fortum. She holds a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration from Macquarie University in Sydney Australia and an Associate Degree in Event Management. She has work with events such as the Nobel Prize Concert, The Royal Philharmonics on their European tour and Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Australia. Ellinor is actively involved in different volunteer foundations in Sweden and is a qualified grief therapist. She has a huge interest for the ocean and marine life and is a keen free diver in both international as well as Swedish cold waters.

MEMBER COMPANIES

Maruha Nichiro Corporation

Maruha (formerly named Taiyo Fisheries) was founded in 1880 and Nichiro (formerly named Nichiro Fisheries) was founded in 1906. The two companies merged in 2007, forming the Maruha Nichiro Corporation. While keeping fishery and aquaculture as their original activities, The group is expanding its business into marine products trading and diverse food categories, building on its strengths in seafood products. Maruha Nichiro has about 12,000 employees in 160 companies and their facilities extend to over 30 countries. Read more

Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd (Nissui)

Established in 1911, the group consists of 97 companies in 62 business locations. Nissui supplies fish species including shrimp, white fish, salmon and trout. Salmon and trout sales account for 25% of total marine product sales at 30,000 tonnes for fiscal year 2014-15. Nissui employs 8,240 people in 26 countries and regions with the goal of establishing a “global supply chain of marine products.” Read more

Thai Union Group PCL

Thai Union Group PCL, founded in 1977, is a global seafood leader that has been offering consumer favourite brands and products for almost 40 years. Thai Union Group is committed to innovative, responsible and ethical business practices, including within their supply chains. Thai Union is member of the United Nations Global Compact, a founding member of the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation, and has been recognised by the Dow Jones Sustainability Index for three consecutive years. Read more

Dongwon Industries

Dongwon Industries was established in 1969. Headquartered in Seoul, Korea, it has 4,900 employees globally. The Marine Business operates 41 vessels, including 19 purse seiners, throughout the Pacific, Indian, Atlantic and Antarctic Oceans. In the Trading sector, Dongwon is working to build a global reputation for tuna processing for sashimi and fisheries product distribution through domestic and overseas factories located in Samoa, Ecuador and Senegal. Dongwon Industries has opened up new paths for the Korean fishery industry and currently has presence in various markets through its affiliate companies such as Dongwon F&B, Dongwon Systems, Dongwon Homefood and Dongwon Construction Industries. Read more

Nutreco

Nutreco is a global leader in animal nutrition and aquafeed with experience across 100 years. Quality, innovation and sustainability are guiding principles, embedded in the Nutreco culture from research and raw material procurement to products and services for livestock farming and aquaculture. Nutreco employs approximately 11,000 people in 35 countries. Its two global company brands Skretting (aquafeed) and Trouw Nutrition (animal nutrition) have sales in over 90 countries. Nutreco is a wholly owned subsidiary of SHV Holdings N.V., a family-owned multinational. Read more

Cargill Animal Nutrition

Cargill’s animal nutrition business has more than 20,000 employees at more than 275 facilities in 40 countries. Fuelled by innovation and research, the company offers a range of products and services to feed manufacturers, animal producers, and feed retailers around the world. Cargill’s animal nutrition business offers a range of compound feed, premixes, feed additives, supply chain and risk management solutions, software tools and animal nutrition expertise that is unmatched in the industry. EWOS was acquired by Cargill in 2015 and is now integrated into Cargill Animal Nutrition. Read more

Cermaq (subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corporation)

Cermaq, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corporation, is the world’s second largest salmon farmer with operations in Norway, Canada and Chile. Cermaq supplies daily more than 2 million salmon meals to more than 70 countries. Cermaq’s sustainability engagement includes significant in-house research as well as partnerships within the industry, such as the Global Salmon Initiative, and across businesses to reach the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The company employs around 3,000 people. Read more

Charoen Pokphand Foods Public Company Limited (CPF)

As part of Charoen Pokphand Group of Companies (C.P. Group), Charoen Pokphand Foods Public Company Limited (CPF) is one of the world’s leading listed companies of integrated agro-industrial and food businesses, engaging in livestock and aquaculture businesses such as swine, broiler, layer, duck, shrimp and fish, with its objectives to offer products of high quality in terms of nutritional value, taste, safety and traceability. With the vision to become the “Kitchen of the World,” CPF strives to operate its businesses in strategic locations, focusing on modern production processes while conforming with international standards. CPF’s current operations cover 16 countries including Thailand, China, Vietnam, Russia, Poland, Belgium, and the USA, and markets its products in more than 30 countries around the world. Read more

SCIENCE PARTNERS

Stockholm Resilience Centre

Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC) is an international research centre on resilience and sustainability science. The centre is a joint initiative between Stockholm University and the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics at The Royal Swedish Academy Sciences. Its mission is to advance research for governance and management of social-ecological systems to secure ecosystem services for human well-being and resilience for long-term sustainability. Read more

Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics at The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

The Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics is an international research institute for global sustainability under the auspices of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It strives to create research frontiers at the interface of ecology, economics and related disciplines, in order to promote a deeper understanding of the interplay between ecological systems and social and economic development in relation to sustainability. Read more

Global Economic Dynamics and the Biosphere at The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

The Global Economic Dynamics and the Biosphere programme is a research programme at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is funded by the Erling-Persson Family Foundation. Its aim is to conduct interdisciplinary research that improves understanding of the economic dynamics of global change in a biosphere context, and the implications and opportunities this presents for a sustainable future. Read more

Pentland at Lancaster University

The Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business is a research centre delivering stimulating research on sustainability in business. Its mission is to deliver world-class transdisciplinary research and undertake engagement to support and advance the mainstreaming of social and environmental sustainability into purposeful business strategy and performance. Read more

Center for Ocean Solutions at Stanford University

Stanford’s Center for Ocean Solutions catalyzes research, innovation and action to improve the health of the oceans for the people who depend on them most. It is creating the innovations needed to sustain ocean health in the face of these threats – translating insights from research into solutions at scale for oceans and people. Read more

Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo

The University of Tokyo is the highest-ranking university in Japan. It offers courses in essentially all academic disciplines and conducts research across the full spectrum of academic activity. The Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences of the University is home to researchers and students engaged in a wide range of research activities on ecosystems, human and nature. Its research methods are diverse and the scale of research ranges from the molecular level all the way to the global level. Read more

Centre for Development and Environment at the University of Bern

CDE is Switzerland’s centre of excellence for sustainable development. One of the University of Bern’s strategic research centres, we are tasked with mainstreaming sustainability throughout the university’s research and teaching. We conduct research and teaching on behalf of a more sustainable world. Our aim is to chart pathways to sustainable development and to initiate transformations in line with the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Read more

EDHEC Business School

EDHEC has stood out for over 100 years for its desire to contribute positively to the transformation of the world, by training insightful leaders capable of introducing new practices to business. Today, this acculturation is founded on the transmission of knowledge in fast-changing fields like law, sustainable finance and entrepreneurship. Read more

FUNDERS

Walton Family Foundation

The Walton Family Foundation is, at its core, a family-led foundation. Three generations of the descendants of our founders, Sam and Helen Walton, and their spouses, work together to lead the foundation and create access to opportunity for people and communities. We work in three areas: improving K-12 education, protecting rivers and oceans and the communities they support, and investing in our home region of Northwest Arkansas and the Arkansas-Mississippi Delta. Read more

The David & Lucile Packard Foundation

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation works with people and communities to create enduring solutions for just societies and a healthy, resilient natural world. Read more

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Gordon and Betty Moore established the foundation to create positive outcomes for future generations. In pursuit of that vision, we foster path-breaking scientific discovery, environmental conservation, patient care improvements and preservation of the special character of the San Francisco Bay Area. Read more

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