Edward J. Saade, PGP

Bio

Mr. Edward Saade has 48 years of hydrographic, coastal zone management, geospatial survey, and ocean engineering experience. Currently, he is president of EJS Solutions, providing consultancy services in ocean sciences and technology.

From 2014 to 2022, Mr. Saade served sequentially as Americas Regional Director for the Fugro Marine Division, President of Fugro (USA) Inc., and by mid-2018 included all of the Americas Region activities, including both land and marine, when he joined the corporate global Executive Leadership Team until his retirement in early 2022. He managed the second largest of Fugro’s regional divisions, overseeing a staff of 2,000, operating from 11 primary offices located from Alaska and Canada to Brazil and Chile, with multiple offices in the U.S., Mexico, Colombia, and Trinidad and Tobago; operating in virtually every country in the region. His duties ultimately included all of both land and marine activities:  mapping, geotechnical and geoengineering analysis, and asset integrity measuring and assessment. These techniques have been directly applied to the offshore windfarm, oil and gas, other construction industries, and a broad number of national hydrographic offices. By 2022, Fugro was the leading provider for offshore windfarm site characterization projects in all U.S. waters.

From 2008 to 2013, he led Fugro’s geospatial (terrestrial) mapping group for the Americas Region, overseeing offices in Maryland, South Dakota, North Carolina, Florida, Canada, and Chile. From 2003 to 2008, he led the hydrographic operations for Fugro in the Americas, based in San Diego, California. He oversaw the expansion of Fugro’s capabilities to become the world leader in hydrographic light detection and ranging (LiDAR), multibeam and backscatter data acquisition, and mapping techniques for charting, coastal resilience, and essential fish habitat analysis.

As a member of Fugro global vessel management team, Steerco Committee, and global innovation teams, he contributed to hydrographic, geospatial, autonomous vehicles and vessels, LiDAR systems for marine/topography/scanning, data processing, and digital storage, including the development and application of Gaia.Hub—a large scale interactive data repository for marine and land site characterization studies and applications. These applications and techniques have been directly applied to the offshore oil and gas and construction industries and a wide variety of national hydrographic offices including NOAA, UKHO, CHS (Canada), GCS (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia), RAN (Australia), and SHOM (France), as well as World Bank and Interdevelopment Bank (Americas). Mr. Saade has been actively involved in high-resolution geophysical survey data acquisition and interpretation programs, both domestically and overseas.