Our Team

Ocean Exchange Team

Karen Frost

Program Manager

Karen is responsible for global economic development activities and innovation programs for The Water Council.

Karen is responsible for global economic development activities and innovation programs for The Water Council. She leads three separate global innovation programs for the Council including a corporate-sponsored open innovation Tech Challenge, a post-accelerator program and a pilot program. She leads the organization’s international efforts and works closely with our European representative to serve partners and companies in Europe and beyond. Karen managed the program development, implementation and oversight of The Water Council’s U.S. Small Business Administration Regional Innovation Cluster Contract from 2015-2020and is active in the execution of The Water Council’s 2023 NSF engine development award for Water and Energy Resiliency for Manufacturers and Utilities. She is an experienced connector and strong relationship builder and collaborator with the small business community, project partners and funders.

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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.”