Chief Strategy Officer, XOCEAN

Biography

Duncan Mallace is the Chief Strategy Officer for XOCEAN. Duncan is a graduate of the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne with a BSc in Surveying Science. The 90s were spent offshore using early multibeam sonars and acoustic positioning. In 2002 he setup the survey company NetSurvey as a specialist high resolution survey company, which became part of MMT in 2011. In 2015 he left MMT to join QPS and in 2017 he saw that, like early multibeam, autonomous technology was the way ahead and that the technology was useable now, but no-one was actually using it so, he formed 4D Ocean. 4D Ocean needed more capable USVs so started working with XOCEAN. Due to the rapid expansion of both companies it made sense to combine the design and philosophy of XOCEAN with the hydrographic skills at 4D Ocean. So in November 2019 4D Ocean became part of XOCEAN.