Pat O’Leary
Pat O’Leary who retired from Liebherr at the end of 2019 has more than 40 years’ experience in the global ports and terminals sector. He joined Liebherr Container Cranes in 1978 where he served as Chief Electrical Engineer for more than 20 years overseeing the development of STS, RMG and RTG canes. In 2001, he was appointed to the management board of Liebherr Container […]
Sjoerd de Jager
Sjoerd is the CEO and co-founder of PortXchange, a digital maritime logistics start-up, based in Rotterdam. Prior to co-founding PortXchange in 2018, Sjoerd de Jager was part of the PRONTO project team at Port of Rotterdam as Business Development Lead. At the Port of Rotterdam, Sjoerd led the business development for Pronto, and the creation […]
Eleni Bougioukou
Eleni leads and manages the strategic development and tactical implementation of pioneering, sustainability-focused innovation and technology activities required to achieve the Port’s strategic net zero and environmental objectives, as outlined in the ambitious Tyne 2050 strategy. Eleni also manages relationships and collaboration opportunities with sustainability, commercial, R&D and academia partners to develop innovative environmental solutions […]
Que Tran
Que has extensive senior technology and transformation leadership experience within international organisations. He also served as a diplomat with the Commonwealth Secretariat. In addition to technology leadership, his is focused on cyber, innovation and sustainability initiatives to help protect, optimise and transform the organisation and industry. He is currently leading Technology and Digital across Europe […]
Maria Manuel Cruz
She has been working for Port of Aveiro Authority (APA S.A.) for about 29 years, as responsible for the Sustainability and the Environmental Management of Port of Aveiro and Port of Figueira da Foz, concerning waste, water quality, wastewater, air quality and noise management, as well as environmental monitoring (aquatic and seawater quality, dredging sediments […]
Oscar Pernia Fernandez
As Founder & Technical Lead of Next Port Dr. Oscar Pernia participates as advisor and thought leader in several innovation and R&D activities, with core focus on enabling the introduction of Artificial Intelligence in the Port Industry: his education was on Telecommunications Engineering, and he holds an Industrial Engineering PhD, where he focused on Algorithms […]
Ben van Scherpenzeel
Ben van Scherpenzeel, director nautical developments, policy and plans Port of Rotterdam He has spent 15 years at sea: 3 years on tankers and reefer vessels as a deck officer 12 years on cruise vessels as a deck officer, staff captain, and project manager of new build programs He joined the Port of Rotterdam in […]
