Matt Hodson is Celtic Sea Power’s Chief Operations Officer and Vice-Chair of Maritime UK South-West. He is playing a leading role alongside key partners in positioning, formulating, and delivering the strategy for the future of Floating Offshore Wind and the marine sector in the Celtic Sea. He is an experienced commercial and operational leader with over 30 years’ experience across a range of sectors, but predominately in the Marine industry. Following an early career as a Merchant Navy Deck Officer his roles have covered Public Sector economic growth, Marine Operations, Marine Technology, Marine Renewable Energy, Port Management, Marine Leisure, Shipping and Commercial Services. He is incredibly supportive of innovative, pragmatic and collaborative methods of achieving sustainable growth in high quality industries.