Meet The Team

Susanne has a long career leading teams across different countries and industries in Business Development, Operations and Transformation. She has spent multiple years working for leading Management & IT Consulting firms and served as trusted advisor to CxO's in strategic assignments. She is passionate about leveraging IT to drive sustainable business growth. Her focus is now on purposeful innovation and impact investments. Susanne serves on several business-, advisory- and jury-boards in the green- and blue space. She is a big animal lover and plant-based future friend and when she moved from Sweden to Portugal in 2020, she decided to be a part of the solution and protect and sustainably leverage the ocean. She is a sailor and has taken her first surf- and kite surf lessons enjoying the wind and Atlantic waves of the Portuguese Silver Coast.
Susanne Wedin-Schildt
Founder & Partnerships
Presidente da Direcção
Ocean Community is part of a global blue innovation ecosystem
Ocean Community is part of a global blue innovation ecosystem

Christina has a long and solid experience from management positions and leading functions in the Finance Industry and in global Consulting Firms covering Business and Product Development, Innovation, Corporate Strategy and Change Management. Christina is a thought leader and expert within the Payments industry and has held various CxO positions. She Is passionate about driving and leveraging Business growth and change. She has lived close to the Swedish coastline all her life and loves ocean sports, especially sailing. Her main driver now is to solve the environmental and food challenges based on innovative solutions and sustainable- and circular economic models. Christina is committed to take on the challenges that UN are addressing in the Sustainable Development Goals by building a business case attracting necessary investments and scouting for suitable start-up ideas to support the UN goals.
Christina Friberg
Co-Founder & OCC Leader
​
Ocean Community is part of a global blue innovation ecosystem
Ocean Community is part of a global blue innovation ecosystem

Mafalda is a Marine Biologist with degrees in Marine Biology from University of St Andrews in Scotland and a Master in Marine Acoustics from Aarhus University in Denmark. She has worked in a number of research projects that used innovative technologies to study marine mammals. Mafalda is currently the Project Manager for Peniche Ocean Watch where exciting projects for fishing net recycling and ocean tech amongst others are being developed and deployed. Mafalda is passionate about translating science into applied innovation in the Ocean space.
Mafalda de Freitas
Chief Marine Scientist
​
Ocean Community is part of a global blue innovation ecosystem
Ocean Community is part of a global blue innovation ecosystem

Vanessa was born and raised in Lisbon, Portugal, and from early years enjoyed camping during summer holidays near the beach.
She still captures energy from the ocean engaging in water sports such as swimming and surfing, and she also has a coastal boat license.
Vanessa holds an MSc in Chemical Engineering - Quality & Environment and a Postgraduate Degree in Integrated Quality, Environment Management Systems. She has been working for the Pharmaceutical Industry for the past 14 years where her main tasks include project management and laboratory team supervision. She is committed to sharing ocean knowledge as the foundation for everyone to enable ocean friendly decisions.
Vanessa is passionate about the environment, sustainability and Blue Circular Economy projects and all its contribution to the bigger cause; Protecting the planet!
Vanessa Domingos
Chief Knowledge Officer
Presidente, Conselho Fiscal
Ocean Community is part of a global blue innovation ecosystem
Ocean Community is part of a global blue innovation ecosystem
.jpg)
Born and raised in a small seaport in the south of Sweden, the ocean has been constant in Sanne's life; both as a place for recreation as well as a creator of livelihood for the community. Sanne holds a B.A in Media and Communication Studies and a B.S.c in Business and Economics with a major in Business Administration. She has completed a communications internship in Lisbon at the Swedish-Portuguese Chamber of Commerce, worked as communications officer and her day time job is now as marketing coordinator for a Swedish' knowledge company.
Sanne Persson
Chief Social Media Officer
'
Ocean Community is part of a global blue innovation ecosystem
Ocean Community is part of a global blue innovation ecosystem

Rimmie comes from the western coast of India and has been living in Sweden since 2015. She has a background in Mechanical engineering and has experience from working in the automotive industry. Rimmie is currently pursuing her PhD in the field of Wave Energy Harvesting systems at KTH, Stockholm. Through her work, she aims at solving the challenges involved in the design and development of ocean energy harvesting.
Rimmie can’t resist the charm of the Scandinavian outdoors, enjoys long hikes and loves to be around animals. Having recently taken diving lessons, she is looking forward to true blue underwater adventures.
Rimmie Duraisamy
Community Leader
Ocean Community is part of a global blue innovation ecosystem
Ocean Community is part of a global blue innovation ecosystem
Our Clients






Susanne has a long career leading teams across different countries and industries in Business Development, Operations and Transformation. She has spent multiple years working for leading Management & IT Consulting firms and served as trusted advisor to CxO's in strategic assignments. She is passionate about leveraging IT to drive sustainable business growth. Her focus is now on purposeful innovation and impact investments. Susanne serves on several business-, advisory- and jury-boards in the green- and blue space. She is a big animal lover and plant-based future friend and when she moved from Sweden to Portugal in 2020, she decided to be a part of the solution and protect and sustainably leverage the ocean. She is a sailor and has taken her first surf- and kite surf lessons enjoying the wind and Atlantic waves of the Portuguese Silver Coast.
Susanne Wedin-Schildt
Founder & Partnerships
Presidente da Direcção
Ocean Community is part of a global blue innovation ecosystem
Ocean Community is part of a global blue innovation ecosystem

Christina has a long and solid experience from management positions and leading functions in the Finance Industry and in global Consulting Firms covering Business and Product Development, Innovation, Corporate Strategy and Change Management. Christina is a thought leader and expert within the Payments industry and has held various CxO positions. She Is passionate about driving and leveraging Business growth and change. She has lived close to the Swedish coastline all her life and loves ocean sports, especially sailing. Her main driver now is to solve the environmental and food challenges based on innovative solutions and sustainable- and circular economic models. Christina is committed to take on the challenges that UN are addressing in the Sustainable Development Goals by building a business case attracting necessary investments and scouting for suitable start-up ideas to support the UN goals.
Christina Friberg
Co-Founder & OCC Leader
​
Ocean Community is part of a global blue innovation ecosystem
Ocean Community is part of a global blue innovation ecosystem

Mafalda is a Marine Biologist with degrees in Marine Biology from University of St Andrews in Scotland and a Master in Marine Acoustics from Aarhus University in Denmark. She has worked in a number of research projects that used innovative technologies to study marine mammals. Mafalda is currently the Project Manager for Peniche Ocean Watch where exciting projects for fishing net recycling and ocean tech amongst others are being developed and deployed. Mafalda is passionate about translating science into applied innovation in the Ocean space.
Mafalda de Freitas
Chief Marine Scientist
​
Ocean Community is part of a global blue innovation ecosystem
Ocean Community is part of a global blue innovation ecosystem

Vanessa was born and raised in Lisbon, Portugal, and from early years enjoyed camping during summer holidays near the beach.
She still captures energy from the ocean engaging in water sports such as swimming and surfing, and she also has a coastal boat license.
Vanessa holds an MSc in Chemical Engineering - Quality & Environment and a Postgraduate Degree in Integrated Quality, Environment Management Systems. She has been working for the Pharmaceutical Industry for the past 14 years where her main tasks include project management and laboratory team supervision. She is committed to sharing ocean knowledge as the foundation for everyone to enable ocean friendly decisions.
Vanessa is passionate about the environment, sustainability and Blue Circular Economy projects and all its contribution to the bigger cause; Protecting the planet!
Vanessa Domingos
Chief Knowledge Officer
Presidente, Conselho Fiscal
Ocean Community is part of a global blue innovation ecosystem
Ocean Community is part of a global blue innovation ecosystem
.jpg)
Born and raised in a small seaport in the south of Sweden, the ocean has been constant in Sanne's life; both as a place for recreation as well as a creator of livelihood for the community. Sanne holds a B.A in Media and Communication Studies and a B.S.c in Business and Economics with a major in Business Administration. She has completed a communications internship in Lisbon at the Swedish-Portuguese Chamber of Commerce, worked as communications officer and her day time job is now as marketing coordinator for a Swedish' knowledge company.
Sanne Persson
Chief Social Media Officer
'
Ocean Community is part of a global blue innovation ecosystem
Ocean Community is part of a global blue innovation ecosystem

Rimmie comes from the western coast of India and has been living in Sweden since 2015. She has a background in Mechanical engineering and has experience from working in the automotive industry. Rimmie is currently pursuing her PhD in the field of Wave Energy Harvesting systems at KTH, Stockholm. Through her work, she aims at solving the challenges involved in the design and development of ocean energy harvesting.
Rimmie can’t resist the charm of the Scandinavian outdoors, enjoys long hikes and loves to be around animals. Having recently taken diving lessons, she is looking forward to true blue underwater adventures.
Rimmie Duraisamy
Community Leader
Ocean Community is part of a global blue innovation ecosystem
Ocean Community is part of a global blue innovation ecosystem