Leadership roles aligned to scale-up
Back to updatesAs The Ocean Cleanup prepares to scale up with the 30 Cities Program, leadership roles are being refined to sharpen focus and execution. This evolution moves the organization toward functions designed to integrate science, technology, deployment and operations, ensuring we effectively scale our river and ocean operations to accomplish our mission of removing 90% of all floating plastic from the ocean by 2040.
Rene Bastiaan Net, 30 Cities Program Director
Rene Bastiaan Net joins The Ocean Cleanup as the Director for the 30 Cities Program. This role is critical in implementing the Program, ensuring our end-to-end systems are successfully deployed across some of the world’s most polluting urban areas and helping standardize our processes to support our scale up of operations. The 30 Cities Program will see deployments of our Interceptors across 30 key cities in Asia and the Americas, and aims to eliminate up to one third of all plastic flowing from the world’s rivers into the ocean by 2030.
Henk van Dalen, VP of Science & Technology
Henk van Dalen, previously Oceans Director, now leads Science & Technology (S&T).
The Science & Technology function integrates research, analysis, and technology development to enable scalable solutions across The Ocean Cleanup’s work. This includes environmental and social impact analysis, science-based learning and the development of concepts and systems that drive both river and ocean interventions toward realization.
Marco Piët, VP of Deployment & Operations
Marco Piët , previously Rivers Director, now leads Deployment & Operations (D&O).
Deployment & Operations is responsible for delivering and operating cleanup systems globally, working with local partners, and ensuring systems perform safely, efficiently, and in line with The Ocean Cleanup’s standards and objectives across all operating countries.
