Captain Walter P. Purio serves as the newly branded Pelican Technologies LLC Chief Executive Officer, supporting Emerging Solutions Commercial Company - Saudi Arabia and uODS Marine and Power - UAE, whose goal is to commercialise King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) acoustic cavitation (sonication) technology. Prior to his role as CEO, Walter served as the marine advisor to the Clean Combustion Research Center at KAUST in the in KSA. He currently serves on the advisory board to the Centre for Business Data Analytics at the University of Western Australia and has served as a Director of the Pilbara Port Authority in Australia, and as Non Executive Chairman of rise-x.io, a global blockchain native, cloud based, low code multi party workflow ecosystem orchestration platform company where he contributed as an advisor to the board of ADP Clear, a blockchain native multiparty workflow digital bunkering company (eBDN) in Singapore. Captain Purio was the inaugural CEO and founding director of the non profit LNG Marine Fuel Institute. In 2021 he was elected Chair of the Asia Pacific committee for the Society for Gas as a Marine Fuel, a non governmental organisation (NGO) with consultative status to the UN’s International Maritime Organisation, and was a member of the SGMF board. Captain Purio served as the Chair of Governors for the non profit Leeuwin Ocean Adventures Foundation, which provides at sea team building, collaborative learning and personal development onboard the sail training vessel Leeuwin for the youth of Western Australia.