Susan Hunt

Susan works at Canada’s Ocean Supercluster as Chief Technology Officer and is responsible for the organization’s activities related to collaborative technology development and commercialization focused projects.  She was a founding member of the organization’s senior management team, and currently manages a $450M+ portfolio of activity spanning across ocean industries.  She is responsible for the organization’s commercialization-focused programming as well as its activities related to IP and data. 

Prior to the Ocean Supercluster, Susan managed collaborative research programs for Canada’s offshore oil and gas sector, was an ocean technology company executive, and established Mitacs, a Canadian Network Centers of Excellence, in Newfoundland and Labrador.  She has also spent 7 years working in the US ocean sector as a engineering manager, a digitalization leader and a naval architect i.  
Susan has a Bachelor of Naval Architecture & Oceanic Engineering from Memorial University of Newfoundland, and a Master of Science in Information Systems and a MBA from University of Washington.