Chris Maloney is a senior level aquaculture operations professional with roughly 30 years of experience developing, deploying, and managing projects.

He has an extensive track record for implementing projects in an efficient and timely manner with an emphasis on building teams to reach defined goals through collaboration. The bulk of his experience has been in the private sector, but at times with significant collaboration with non-profit, academic, and domestic and international governmental organizations in various capacities.

Chris began his career in the Peace Corps growing Tilapia in a remote section of Liberia after graduating from the University of Rhode Island with a degree in Zoology (marine biology) in 1986. Chris segued into marine aquaculture starting in Woods Hole, Massachusetts where he was part of a team that devised a unique hatchery and growout protocol for culturing the bay scallop (Argopecten irradians) on a commercial scale.

From there, Chris has focused primarily on the production of various bivalves that include the American oyster (Crassostrea virginica), the hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria), and the surf clam (Spisula solidissima), among others. In addition to his work with shellfish, Chris has been working with companies focusing on large scale production of microalgae utilizing various cultivation platforms (photosynthetic, mixotrophic, heterotrophic) for fuel, feed, and nutraceuticals.

Chris has been in directorial positions for various companies in operational as well as research and development capacities and has been part of two significant Department of Energy projects looking at the production of microalgae for CO2 mitigation, as well as fuel and feed applications.

Chris has designed and managed aquaculture operations domestically and internationally, which includes co-owning and directing two companies of his own. Aside from various US domestic locales, international project locations include South Africa, New Zealand, North Cyprus, Spain, Tunisia, and Israel.