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MTR100, the 14 annual reporting on 100 leaders, innovators and technologies

John C. O’Malley [email protected] serving the subsea industry. Generally, you would expect the more times that

Ayou do something it becomes easier, but that certainly is not the case in regards

Associate Publisher & Editor to the MTR100. This year we saw a record number of applications from around the globe,

Gregory R. Trauthwein [email protected] and paring the ? nal list to 100 was no small task. Again, this year we offer a feature focus on ? ve prominent leaders, led in 2019 by our cover subject and chosen “Number One”

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Wendy Schmidt and the Schmidt Ocean Institute

Justin Manley, U.S.

Elaine Maslin, Aberdeen

As many of you already know, Mrs. Schmidt is part of an interesting movement of phil-

Tom Mulligan, Ireland anthropic oceanic investment. Philanthropy in this space is certainly now new, but Wendy

Claudio Paschoa, Brazil

William Stoichevski, Oslo and her husband Eric Schmidt have kicked this to a new plateau, led by Schmidt Ocean

Institute’s mobile research platform Falkor, the only international philanthropically-funded

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