Our Team

Ocean Exchange Intern Team

Alex Akkaoui

Community Manager

Alex is an MBA graduate and current doctoral student at Nova Southeastern University specializing in organizational leadership.

Alex Akkaoui serves as Ocean Exchange’s Community Manager. Alex is an MBA graduate and current doctoral student at Nova Southeastern University specializing in organizational leadership. He has a strong passion for blue economy startups that seek to advance our learning of the ocean while providing solutions to maintain healthy and diverse marine habitats. Alex anticipates remaining involved in the influential network of organizations that support innovative and sustainable startups as they evolve into scalable solutions.

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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.”