Kent Satterlee
Executive Director
Kent Satterlee is a seasoned civil/structural/environmental engineer and manager with 15 years of experience in government affairs and regulatory policy and 40 years of experience in the offshore industry. Kent is also president of Kent Satterlee & Associates and president of Blue Silo Aquaculture, LLC, both located in Mandeville, LA.
Ivan Puckett
Technical Director
Ivan Puckett is a results driven Technical Design Engineer, Project Manager and Executive with more than 40 years of experience in the energy sector, both onshore and offshore. Ivan is Founder and Principal of PRIME UPSTREAM, an upstream and midstream advisory and consultancy firm located in Texas. Ivan serves as a Director for MMEERSET L3C and COO for Blue Silo Aquaculture, LLC.
Sara Hamann
Scientific Director
Sara Hamann brings an interdisciplinary background in environmental science, conservation governance, research, and education. She has 5 years of experience working in non-for-profit organizations in Mexico, England, and the USA. She holds an MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation and Management from the University of Oxford. For her thesis work in the Biodiversity Institute at the University of Oxford, she researched Eastern Orthodox church forests in Ethiopia to measure their ecological value. She also studied the effects of habitat fragmentation and buffer zones on endangered species, conservation heritage, and regenerative agriculture. Sara is particularly interested in sustainable development, human-wildlife conflict, illegal wildlife trade, responsible sourcing, and climate change adaptation.