Shail Barthwal commanded ships before he led the businesses that run them.
A Master Mariner turned maritime corporate leader, he held strategy, commercial and innovation portfolios at Maersk, Teekay and Wilhelmsen, followed by a decade in technology commercial leadership and strategy consulting with Bain & Company, alongside mentoring early-stage tech founders.
He now leads Nexus Ocean AI, building pioneering agentic AI personas for the industry that carries around 90% of world trade. His work centres on two questions every sector is running out of time to answer: "how do you hold on to expertise when the experts retire, and pass it to the people who come next?" And “How to leverage AI to optimise your business, without risking to lose years of expertise in the AI FOMO race?"