Overview
Marte Greefs is a co-founder of Go Ocean, where she has been Sea-EO since February 2025. She is based in Brussels, and states her expertise as social entrepreneurship and corporate social responsibility.
Greefs co-founded Go Ocean in January 2024 and served as its operations manager until February 2025. In parallel she worked at Go Forest, which she joined as a junior project manager in February 2022 before becoming operations manager in August 2022, a role she held until June 2025. Earlier she interned at Responsum in 2021, took part in Academics for Development as a project student during the 2020 to 2021 academic year, and interned in internationalisation at POM Limburg (Provinciale Ontwikkelingsmaatschappij Limburg) in 2020.
She studied Chinese Studies at KU Leuven, completing a bachelor's degree in 2018 and a master's degree in 2020, with a year as a visiting student in Chinese language at Peking University in between. She followed this with a master's degree in International Business Economics and Management at KU Leuven, completed in 2022.
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In the news
- 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐢𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐬 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠? This question that I received during Brussels Climate Week raised a fair point, and it was the perfect topic for a fireside chat. Thanks, Tobias Troll. Go Ocean focuses on active restoration because that’s where our years of expertise lie. We’re grateful that so many other organisations tackle the rest: conservation, marine debris cleanup, prevention, pressure reduction. 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮, 𝘰𝘶𝘳
- Proud to welcome Go Ocean as a new SpeakSoon customer! They have a beautiful mission: restoring coastlines and marine ecosystems worldwide, from coral reefs and seagrass meadows to mangroves and oyster reefs. It’s a privilege to support this team. Building the partnerships that make this work possible starts with real conversations at network events, conferences and fairs, where a good talk is easy to start and just as easy to lose track of. That’s where we come in. The team can now capture everyone they meet on the spot through
- Representing Go Ocean at Brussels Climate Week on Thursday 🌊 Tomorrow, at #BrusselsClimateWeek Nature Day, I’m joining María Isabel Salinas and Tobias Troll for a fireside chat: "Turning the Tide on Ocean Health". 15 minutes, no slides, just an honest conversation about our ocean's health from two completely different but highly interlinked viewpoints. ⏱️ Thursday 15 October, 16:10–16:25 📍 Maritime Room, Maison de la Poste (1st floor) Are you attending? Come say hi afterwards! #oceanhealth #generationrestoration
- Rough days ask for safety nets 🌊🛟 Go Ocean is flowing. We're going full force ahead, overcoming obstacles, and making positive impact! Sometimes it's not the business that is rough. What if your energy as a person is challenged and "going full force ahead" is not within your capacity? Well, I'm super grateful to be part of NOA, where a community of entrepreneurs and visionaries are all great listeners, honest advisors, very human, and always ready when you need them. On Monday, I participated in a NOA Founder Room (in my
- 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬 𝐚𝐭 Go Ocean: 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭? 🦪 We're looking for our final oyster pioneers: partners to join our 2027 oyster reef restoration installation in the Belgian North Sea. A handful of spots are left for businesses who want their name on real, tangible impact. 🌱 Preparation deadlines are also closing on two other limited projects: seagrass restoration in Corsica and mangrove restoration in Ecuador. Our maximum capacity is not yet reached, so every new supporting partner counts. 🗺️
- Enthousiast om dit jaar deel uit te maken van de sprekers van Leading From Within. Mijn insteek? Het ontstaan van een impactorganisatie heeft maar één startpunt, en dat ligt heel zeker binnenin 🫶 Inschrijven kan nog tot 20 september! #impactentrepreneurship #leadership
- Super grateful for this collaboration between Go Ocean and #BELREEFS, and even more grateful for the amazing ocean pioneers turning oyster dreams into reality: Naiad Foundation, Gieskes-Strijbis Fonds, ZOUTMAN, KPMG, GEOxyz, Mantis Consulting, Golazo Group, PANELTIM nv, Compass Group BELGIUM, etc. 🦪🌊 Who's pioneering with us for next year's oysters? #generationrestoration
- Planet Earth or planet Ocean? 🌎 Last week, Go Ocean got 3 minutes on stage at the Love Tomorrow Summit (Startups of Tomorrow, hosted by Start it Accelerate | @KBC - thank you 🙏) to make the case: we need a healthy ocean to support life on Earth as we know it, but her health has been degrading fast. With our ocean pioneers, we're turning that urgency into action globally, from tropical mangrove forest restoration to bringing back North Sea oyster reefs 🌱🦪 Planet Earth or planet Ocean? Either way, she's (literally) on fire. Join
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