Dr. Claude Kaplan

Dr Claude Kaplan has over 20 years’ experience on the identification, evaluation and exploitation of novel agritech innovations and intellectual property. Previous roles have included; director of an IP commercialisation consultancy, animal & aquaculture health investment specialist for government and head of IP commercialisation for an international aquaculture company. Claude is currently the Director of Commercial Relations, Hatch Innovation Services (HIS). HIS, part of HATCH group - a global catalyst for aquaculture innovation, provides support and assistance to companies, governments and researchers in the sourcing, management and commercialisation of aquaculture technologies.

Nathan Pyne-Carter

Nathan Pyne-Carter received a BA Hons from Clare College, Cambridge University. He took over running of the family business in 2012 where he quickly grew the business through two investment rounds (AquaSpark and 4J Studios), with central office at the Water’s Edge in Dundee, and regional offices in Chile, Norway, Canada and Australia. Current headcount in the company stands at twenty-six with rapid expansion planned for 2021. He has been an invited speaker keynote speaker at industry events such as Oceanology, HavExpo and Seafood Expo North America, as well as winner of the Tayside and Fife IOD, Regional Director of the Year Award in 2020, National Director of the Year for Innovation winner in 2019, and Courier Business award winning Entrepreneur of the Year in 2019. He spearheads a creative look at problems in aquaculture and award-winning innovations span unique in-water electric stunning systems for fish, environmentally responsible acoustic deterrents, 3D biomass camera systems, and lice removal technology for fish.

Kelle Moley, MD

Dr. Kelle Moley is a career physician-scientist obstetrician/gynecologist who currently leads the Reproductive Health Technologies Domain within the Discovery & Translational Sciences, Global Health Division at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.  Kelle joined BMGF in July 2020, with a 30-year history of basic and translational research on reproductive health issues in females throughout the life course-- from organismal to cellular and molecular levels of metabolic, developmental biology, embryo implantation and decidualization, and infectious diseases of the female reproductive tract.

Kelle earned her BA from Wellesley College, and her MD from Yale Medical School. Thereafter, she pursued an Obstetrics & Gynecology Residency and a Fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology & Fertility at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine. Kelle then spent the next 3 decades of a thriving research career at Washington University—rising to become the James P. Crane Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Vice Chair of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Chief of the Division of Basic & Translational Research for the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Co-Director of the Institute of Clinical & Translational Science for the School of Medicine, and Director of the Center for Reproductive Health Sciences at the School of Medicine. Her research (published in some 150 peer-reviewed primary articles) led to an international reputation along with numerous honors, including election to the National Academy of Medicine in 2014. She also earned a reputation as a superb mentor to trainees, leading the reproductive endocrinology fellowship program at Washington University until she left academia in 2018. After a 2-year stint as Chief Scientific Officer and Senior Vice President of the March of Dimes she left to pursue her new position at BMGF.

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Dr. Lynne U. Sneddon

Dr Lynne Sneddon obtained her Ph.D at Glasgow University studying animal behaviour, physiology and neurobiology. After a postdoctoral position studying weakly electric fish Lynne moved to the Roslin Institute where she began characterising nociceptors (pain receptors) in fish for the first time with Dr Mike Gentle. Lynne moved to the University of Liverpool in 2002 on a fellowship where she has used an integrative approach to understand mechanisms of behaviour and specialises in addressing question in fish welfare. In September 2021 Lynne took up a new academic position at Gothenburg University in Sweden.