Our Team

Ocean Exchange Executive Team

Millicent Wallace Pitts

CEO/Executive Director

Milly is the executive director of  OceanExchange, that gives non-dilutive funding to innovative start-ups that support healthy oceans and a sustainable Blue Economy. She previously was an executive in the chemical/materials industry for 30 years.

Milly is the executive director of our international non-profit, OceanExchange.org, that gives
non-dilutive funding to innovative start-ups that support healthy oceans and a sustainable Blue
Economy. She previously was an executive in the chemical/materials industry for 30 years,
living in Houston, Philadelphia, Cleveland and Valencia (Spain).


In addition to her role at Ocean Exchange, she is a mentor with Creative Destruction Labs
(Oceans) in Halifax, is on the Leadership Team of OceansVisions.org, and has previously
mentored or judged in collaboration with other partners such as Clean Tech Open and NREL.
She leads the Ocean Exchange efforts to grow and communicate with the community of ocean
and blue tech innovators.


She holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Testimonials

“The delegates are a very strategically chosen body of individuals. Virtually everyone who attends Ocean Exchange has the capacity to open doors.”

“When you bring an eclectic mix of highly intelligent, passionate people together, that’s when lightning strikes.”

“Ocean Exchange is entirely different from any of the other organizations that I’m involved in. It is about sustainable innovation. I think it’s also very different in the extremely broad range of stakeholders that it involves.”