Our Team

Ocean Exchange Team

Lucas Wissmann

Impact Entrepreneur

Lucas Wissmann is an impact entrepreneur who has a knack for commercialization and leading teams to successful outcomes.

After working for both large and small system-integration companies to design or sell products that drive, fly, float, sink and think; Lucas now uses his skills to identify commercial and partnering strategies to accelerate subsea restoration. Lucas won and successfully executed contracts with NASA, commercial space companies, offshore field service companies, and the US department of defense. He holds a BS, MS and PhD ABD in Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and co-authored “Value Driven Product Planning and System Engineering” published by Springer.

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Ocean Exchange invites you to learn more about Awards Program, our ecosystem and success of our award winners and participants. Together, we can chart a powerful course to help ensure the future of our oceans and the Blue Economy.

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.”