Growing revenue,
adding value, and making
operations run better.
Twenty years on the North Atlantic: a port built from a standing start, an ocean cluster from an idea, a university office from a mandate.
Founder, Soli DG (2007). Director, Office of Commercialization, University of Southern Maine. Harvard Kennedy School, Leading in AI.
Three builds.
The International Marine Terminal
Built with Eimskip and the Maine Port Authority when Iceland's shipping line chose Portland as its U.S. port. 7,900 to 33,688 TEUs; $18M to $112M in annual throughput value. Carriers and shippers recruited from zero.
New England Ocean Cluster
Founded as the first sister cluster of the Iceland Ocean Cluster. The Hús on Commercial Street. A regional blue economy convened from a single room.
University of Southern Maine
Standing up the university's first Office of Commercialization: industry sprints, a cooperation agreement with UiT The Arctic University of Norway, and workforce development between Iceland, Norway and the United States.
Maine Port Authority · Eimskip · City of Portland · Panama Canal Authority · Halifax Port Authority · New Bedford Harbor Authority · Nestlé Waters North America (Poland Spring) · Bristol Seafood · Ready Seafood · Thompson's Point
Growth, value, efficiency.
Infrastructure and logistics
Ports, corridors and the commercial agreements behind them: public owners, carriers, shippers, and the terms that make the revenue hold.
Commercialization and institutions
Clusters, universities and public-private partnerships, from the first conversation to the operating model and the money behind it.
The North Atlantic
Maine, Iceland, Norway and Greenland: how cargo, people and partnerships actually move between them, learned over thirteen years of doing it.
Work I enjoy and still do. A first conversation costs nothing; the second one is work.