Masters in Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship

Paul Dobbins joined the World Wildlife Fund to lead the global project, “Advancing Seaweed and Shellfish Aquaculture for Climate Change”. Paul provides thought leadership and financial expertise on how seaweed and shellfish aquaculture can be scaled for increased biomass production and excess nutrient remediation.

Before joining WWF, Paul spent a decade helping to develop commercial kelp farms in Maine as co-owner of Ocean Approved/Atlantic Sea Farms, and Bangs Island Mussels. Prior to that, he was a managing director at IDEXX Laboratories, a publicly traded provider of products and services for animal health. Earlier in his career Paul participated in the funding, growth, and sale of several consumer product and business-to-business companies.

He served on the advisory boards of Maine Sea Grant, the Aquaculture Research Institute at the University of Maine, the Maine Aquaculture Association, Focus Maine, The Maine Technology Institute, and the Conservation Law Foundation. Paul is a U.S. delegate to The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) open-ocean aquaculture working group, and an advisory board member of the North Atlantic and European Mussel Organization, Oceans 2050, and Manomet.