Leadership

Graham Hine is the Chief Executive Officer for Liquid Robotics, a Boeing company based in Sunnyvale California. As one of the founders of Liquid Robotics, Graham’s expertise in business, technology, and operations has played a major role helping to transform Liquid Robotics from a small start-up to an industry leader of autonomous ocean robots.

Prior to Liquid Robotics, Graham managed Software Engineering at Asyst Technologies, a manufacturer of robotics, control systems, and embedded applications. Earlier in his career Graham was President and CEO of Gibraltar Software, Inc., a security management enterprise application and President and CEO of Tuxtops, Inc., maker of Linux-based laptops and mobility software. He led the creation of the software engineering function and served on the board of directors at Hine Design, his family’s robotics company. He helped negotiate its sale to Asyst Technologies and helped integrate the two companies. He started his career as an embedded software engineer at Centigram, Inc., one of the pioneers of voice processing technology.

Graham has degrees from Columbia University and Claremont McKenna College.

Graham enjoys outdoor activities including skiing, scuba diving, fishing and kayaking.

Dr. Terrill is an oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography leading basic and applied research programs in a variety of marine and environmental disciplines. Under his leadership, he founded the Scripps’ Coastal Observing Research and Development Center (CORDC) in 2003 to focus on the development of new technologies, their application for basic and applied sciences, and the exploitation and fusion of data for improved decision-making.

He has extensive experience with the design, coordination, and implementation of complex field measurement programs that are executed globally, both in the ocean and on land. Sponsorship for these initiatives comes primarily from federal and state agencies; including USACE, NOAA, and Navy ocean observation, and Maritime Domain Awareness initiatives. Dr. Terrill was also one of the early leaders in establishing the Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System, one of the eleven U.S. Regional Associations that form the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS).

He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Mechanics and Engineering Science from University of California San Diego (UCSD) and a Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography – Applied Ocean Sciences from Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Admiral Sir George Zambellas is a highly distinguished British Royal Navy officer, with an exemplary background in maritime, joint service and multinational command. In April of 2016, he completed a three-year appointment as First Sea Lord, a period that included the UK Strategic Defense and Security Review. During his tenure, his principal focus was on people, to ensure that, with significant quantities of new equipment being delivered to the British Royal Navy including two new carriers, new ballistic nuclear submarines, frigates and aircraft, the quality and quantity of technical expertise is ready.

He began his 36-year career as a helicopter pilot in frigates and carriers, before a series of sea commands, culminating in command of the UK Amphibious Force, the UK Maritime Force, NATO’s 4-star Maritime Command and Royal Navy Fleet Command. He has extensive operational experience, including as Chief of Staff in the UK Joint Headquarters for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, in Operation Highbrow in 2006 to evacuate multinational civilians from Lebanon, and in Operation Palliser in 2000 where, as Captain of HMS Chatham, he was deployed to Sierra Leone, earning the Distinguished Service Cross.

Zambellas achievements have earned many honors and awards. The most notable are: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Bath (GCB), 31 December 2015, Knight Commander of the Order of Bath (KCB), 16 June 2012, Distinguished Service Cross and Operational Service Medal for Sierra Leone in 2000, Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society in 2009, Deputy Lieutenant of Dorset, September 2013 and Honorary Doctorate in Science from Southampton University in 2014.

Sir George Zambellas was educated in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and at Stowe School. He studied aeronautical and astronautical engineering at the University of Southampton and graduated in 1980 with a Bachelor of Science (BSc Hons) degree.