Megan is an experienced senior project manager and PMO leader with a passion for helping businesses connect strategy and execution. Megan’s career has wound its way through healthcare tech & clinical research; software design & development; branding and strategy; leadership and operations; organizational design and various technical projects in artificial intelligence and engineering. As a trained biochemist, Megan brings a strong analytical toolkit to the teams she works with. At Ai.Fish Megan supports projects & operations, and brings her passion for the ocean including her 10,000+ nautical miles at sea to the team.

Benjamin Woodward is the CEO of CVision AI, a firm specializing in using computer vision and machine learning to solve engineering problems in video and image analysis. He has 15 years of experience designing, testing, and deploying sensor and algorithm systems including EO/IR, LIDAR, Radar, Acoustic, and optical. He worked at BAE Systems in the Signal and Information Processing Lab, the Survivability, Targeting and Sensor Solutions group, and the Advanced Reasoning Technologies group, as well as in the Draper Labs Machine Intelligence group. As the co-founder of CVision, he has worked to bring deep learning solutions to different domains, including the marine sciences where he and his partner Jonathan Takahashi have developed multiple systems for automatic video processing in both underwater and electronic monitoring workflows. Mr. Woodward has a B.S in physics from the University of New Hampshire, and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Errhalt Consulting is a Tokyo-based fishery and maritime security group seeking to create a sustainable Pacific. The founder of Errhalt Consulting, Gunther Errhalt, is a US Navy veteran that worked in the North Pacific Fisheries Commission as a compliance consultant. His fluency in English, Mandarin, and Japanese, combined with his admiration for Japan, inspired Gunther to found a consulting agency to assist foreign and domestic forces in improving sustainability in Japan. One of the major goals of Errhalt Consulting is to establish a more robust EM presence in Japan and eventually a mandatory EM policy in place in the WCPFC and NPFC.

​Fishery Applications Consulting Team, LLC is an independent, woman-owned small business specializing in science-based solutions for sustainable fisheries management. Established in 2020, the company draws on years of experience, engagement, and expertise of its consulting team.

We specialize in integrating best available scientific products into fisheries management and policy. Our extensive background in collaborative fisheries research and stakeholder engagement serves as a foundation towards finding sustainable solutions for the fishing, science, and management communities. Understanding the challenges posed by regulatory requirements, competing marine user groups, and new scientific initiatives in a changing climate gives us a unique perspective to identify holistic and interdisciplinary solutions.

Dr. Willy Goldsmith is the Founder and Principal of Pelagic Strategies LLC, a fisheries research and policy consultancy that supports diverse organizations in their efforts to secure a sustainable future for our oceans. He has over a decade of experience in marine fisheries science and policy, balancing time spent on the water with efforts to improve management approaches and outcomes. Prior to founding Pelagic Strategies, Willy served as Executive Director of the American Saltwater Guides Association, where he worked on behalf of fishing guides, small businesses, and conservation minded recreational anglers. Previously, he was a Senior Associate with the Lenfest Ocean Program and a 2018 Sea Grant Knauss Fellow in the office of Senator Ed Markey (D-MA). He obtained his PhD in Marine Science with a sub-concentration in Marine Policy from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science at William and Mary, where his dissertation focused on characterizing the biological impacts and human dimensions of the U.S. east coast recreational Atlantic bluefin tuna fishery. He received his B.A. from Harvard University. An avid angler, Willy lives in Gloucester, MA, and whenever he has a free moment you can find him plying his local waters for anything that swims.

Eric has provided technical leadership on a wide range of IT projects relating to the commercial fisheries of the North Pacific. He was also the primary developer of an open source EM software platform that is now in use in fisheries in Alaska and throughout the U.S., and has consulted on EM and bycatch reduction projects worldwide.