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Robbie Champagne Built the Boat His Industry Kept Putting Off
He started on deck, learned the work underwater, and spent decades earning the judgment to make one expensive decision: build a saturation vessel from the keel up. In 2026, that operator’s path opened into a larger offshore platform.
Suzy DePrizio Keeps a North Star in the Boardroom
Before she led marketing at CIBC, Suzy DePrizio learned to navigate literal oceans and corporate change. Her operating system is unusually simple: serve, leave a mark, keep growing.
Joel Anderson
Joel Anderson is the founder and CEO of ZeroMark, a New York defense-technology startup building an AI-and-robotics fire control system that turns ordinary infantry rifles into auto-aiming counter-drone weapons. A U.S. Navy veteran who went on to help scale MongoDB from a small team to a public company as a senior technical and security leader, Anderson founded ZeroMark in 2022 after an 'epiphany' driving his Tesla to a shooting range: consumer machines could aim and track better than a soldier could. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz's American Dynamism fund and Ground Up Ventures, ZeroMark markets what it calls a 'handheld Iron Dome' - a motorized buttstock and sensor pod that make hitting a small drone at 200 yards, in Anderson's words, 'as easy as hitting a 60-foot-diameter circle.'