Starboard Maritime Intelligence
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Product overview
Global maritime domain awareness and vessel analysis
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Starboard for
Biosecurity
Fisheries monitoring and surveillance
Satellite surveillance
VMS fishing fleet management
Latest case study
Investigating the Lu Rong Yuan Yu 606
Arming research analysts with hidden clues to their maritime domain
Home
Why Starboard?
Pricing
Product overview
Global maritime domain awareness and vessel analysis
RoadmapUpcoming product improvements and past deliveries
Starboard for
Biosecurity
Fisheries monitoring and surveillance
Satellite surveillance
VMS fishing fleet management
Latest case study
Investigating the Lu Rong Yuan Yu 606
Arming research analysts with hidden clues to their maritime domain
We’re a multidisciplinary team brought together to help build a sustainable future through the power of science
We’re a dispersed team of remote sensing and data scientists, software engineers and designers, and business and communication experts. Our team is based in Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia and has worked for NASA and the European Space Agency, through to tech startups, aircraft manufacturers, humanitarian organisations, and academic institutions.
We’re passionate about protecting our marine environment and supporting the people who rely upon it. Our oceans play a critical role in the lives of billions of people around the globe and ocean health is essential to planet health.
Where we’re based
Business Team
Emma Scarlet
Chief Operating Officer
Emma has been involved with Xerra and Starboard right from the start, initially joining as the Establishment Manager for Xerra. Her business experience and talent with people enables Starboard’s high performing team to continuously thrive.
Heather Deacon
Commercial Manager
Heather has a passion for providing customers with the very best value by really getting to the heart of the problems they need to solve. She has a background in aerospace, remote sensing and growing new business, and was most recently working at NZ’s Innovation Agency, Callaghan Innovation.
Kelly Rummins
Chief Marketing Officer
Kelly has worked in marketing for over 15 years with a strong focus on technology and data throughout. She is passionate about bringing technology and data together to solve problems that support stewardship for the environment.
Mat Brown
Chief Revenue Officer
Mat takes a customer-centric approach and believes in consistently adding value to his clients as a long term commercial partner. After a 17 year career in the advertising industry, the Sales Manager role for Starboard allows Mat to bring together his commercial acumen and previous PGDip in Marine Science.
Trent Fulcher
Chief Executive Officer
Trent is an entrepreneur at heart with an extensive background in strategy and startups, having worked across the globe in Financial Services and Aerospace, turning complex technology into marketable products, and growing high performing teams.
Kristin Armstrong
Business Administrator
Kristin has worked in business support for over 7 years spreading across multiple industries. Kristin loves being the person who can help others make their work life feel more at ease and being the one-stop shop to help solve daily matters.
Kaydi O'Connor
Marketing Coordinator
Kaydi has worked in marketing for over 5 years, with a strong focus on digital and business, spending time in both government and private sectors. She is passionate about using technology to enhance our lives and care for the planet.
Data science team
Dr Dave Kelbe
Senior Data Scientist
Dave is an imaging and remote sensing specialist. He is an expert in geospatial science and satellite imagery processing and has spent time working in this field at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). His PhD is in Imaging Science earning him the Doctoral Dissertation of the Year award for his environmental monitoring research with NASA.
Dr Fernando Cagua
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Fernando is a well travelled individual with over 10 years of experience working with data at multiple government, not-for-profit, and research organisations. Starboard allows Fernando to combine his passion for the ocean with his background in engineering and marine research, and PhD in Computational Biology.
Joseph Corbett
Chief Data Scientist
Joseph is a data science and machine learning expert. He is responsible for designing and implementing machine learning solutions for Starboard. Previous work includes 7 years as a researcher at NASA's Langley Research Center focusing on satellite measurements of climate related data. His experience combines both advanced data science skills and a Masters in Physics.
Ryan Bolger
Data Scientist
Ryan works with data and algorithms to make sense of the world around us. He's motivated to use technology for human-centred solutions that can mitigate humanity's impact on the planet. Ryan brings well rounded studies in Environmental Management, Design and most recently a Masters in Applied Data Science.
Product and design team
Dr Andrew Middleditch
Senior Remote Sensing Scientist
Andrew is a radar specialist and leads our Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) work. He is an expert in applying SAR data for vessel detection. He’s spent much of his career in ocean radar research and developing signal processing algorithms. His PhD is in Applied Mathematics.
Andy Hovey
Chief Product Officer
Andy builds software that is focused on the people using it and the problems it can solve. He is passionate about building products that help people look after our planet. He has previously led teams designing software that’s used by millions of people around the globe at technology companies like Xero and Amazon.
Julie Jeon
Principal Product Designer
Julie makes products and services work better for people. She’s excited and humbled by the potential for positive impact that building good software can enable, both for the people and our planet. As a design practitioner, she’s led projects and teams in her work with government agencies, Xero, and Trade Me.
Dr Moritz Lehmann
Senior Oceanographer
Moritz is an oceanographer and remote sensing scientist who likes to squeeze every little bit of knowledge from ship tracks and vessel behaviour at sea. He leads our biosecurity research and supports operations against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing using satellite dark vessel detections. Moritz is a well-published scientist and a skilled communicator. His work has been featured in several interviews for radio, newspapers and TV.
Isaac Minogue
Senior Product Designer
Isaac loves bringing ideas to life. Particularly when they work for the good of people and planet. He's had a lifelong connection to the ocean, and feels privileged this can spill over into his work. Previously, he's had the opportunity to build design capability at several agencies, start-ups, and established technology companies like Xero and Atomic.
Engineering team
Danika Chhour
Software Engineer
Danika is interested in harnessing the potential of technology to provide for a more sustainable future. Currently working towards a degree in Law and Software Engineering at the University of Auckland, she is excited to apply what she has learnt to develop features that help people better care for the planet.
Denise Rivera
Senior Software Engineer
Denise has been working with software for over 10 years now, switching confidently between fullstack and frontend engineering. She loves a challenge and the fast-paced forever changing landscape of frontend engineering. Her work is tidy, logical and well-documented, always thinking about how future Denise will hate it if she doesn't write good code now.
James Player
Senior Software Engineer
James has spent his career crafting beautiful and valuable web experiences. He has led the front-end strategic direction for well-known companies such as Hootsuite Campaigns and Optimal Workshop and particularly enjoys the creativity and excitement that comes with developing new products and services.
Justin Harding
Senior Software Engineer
Justin has spent over 25 years developing statistical financial and engineering software. Prior to this Justin was a civil engineer. He enjoys developing quality software and is deeply involved in the development of Starboard's complex data structures and layering.
Laszlo Peter
Principal Software Engineer
Laszlo is a software developer and problem solver. With more than 20 years experience including as Principal Software Engineer at Oracle. He has a unique talent for turning researcher and client needs into effective and efficient technology solutions.
Max Collier
Software Engineer
Max is a recent graduate in Computer Science. During his studies he worked in software development roles involving satellite data processing and interactive GIS systems for end users. He applies his keen interest in optimised algorithms to his work on Starboard.
Nick Wittenberg
Software Engineer
Nick has been passionate about problem solving and technology for as long as he can remember. Despite holding a Masters's degree in Health Science and working as an Osteopath for 10 years, this natural inclination eventually led him to study software development, and an internship with Starboard solidified that the career change was exactly the right fit.
Dr Robert Schafer
Senior Software Engineer
Robert has a passion for spatiotemporal analysis and has applied this to build various core algorithms and models in Starboard. He has developed innovative algorithms for calibrating and analysing satellite imagery. He has focused his career on earth science and remote sensing and has a PhD in Physical Science.
Rody Oldenhuis
Senior Software Engineer
Originally from the Netherlands, Rody has been writing software in the aerospace domain for well over 10 years. He aided a flagship geostationary communication satellite in gaining its software qualification, and has worked alongside astronauts to realise night-time photography on the ISS. With a keen eye for software quality, he now implements his skills into the development of Starboard.
Simon Graham
Senior Software Engineer
Simon has over 20 years experience as a software engineer, with an impressive history building both frontend and backend software systems for top global hedge funds. He feels privileged to be able to apply his extensive data engineering experience to Starboard’s databases and software development as the team work to protect the world’s oceans.
Tama Pugsley
Chief Technology Officer
Tama is excited to be working with our researchers in a shared belief that there are limitless possibilities for turning data into products that have the potential to change the world. Tama’s experience is extensive including leading the development of several start-up applications.
Ersin Buckley
Senior Software Engineer
As a Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience across product, agency and start-up contexts, Ersin takes a people focused approach to software development. They specialise in building platforms enabling faster and better software development. Ersin prioritises the needs and goals of end-users, creating intuitive, efficient and enjoyable software.
