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Biography

Paul Woods is co-founder and chief innovation officer of Global Fishing Watch, serving as the principal architect of the Global Fishing Watch technology platform.

Before leading the organization’s innovation work, Woods served as interim CEO and helped establish Global Fishing Watch as an independent nonprofit in 2017. He now heads the development of new technologies and applications of big data and remote sensing to solve challenging problems facing our ocean.

Before starting Global Fishing Watch, Woods served as chief technology officer at SkyTruth, a U.S.-based technology firm that harnesses satellite imagery to protect the environment. He joined SkyTruth after the Deep Water Horizon oil spill in 2010 and continues to serve on the SkyTruth board.

Woods started his career as a software engineer and over two decades led various commercial and startup software companies in finance, telemedicine and big data.