Our Team

Ocean Exchange Team

Eleanor Kirtley

Senior Program Manager, Green Marine

Dr. Eleanor Kirtley is the Senior Program Manager for Green Marine, North America’s leading environmental certification for the maritime industry.

She joined the program and opened their West Coast office in November, 2014.  Before that, Eleanor worked as an ocean engineer for six years at Glosten.  She was a Project Manager and Principal Investigator for vessel traffic and risk assessments studies.  

Eleanor serves on the Washington State Board of Pilotage Commissioners and on the Board of Washington Maritime Blue. In 2008, Eleanor completed her PhD in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from the University of Michigan and moved to Seattle, Washington.

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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.”