Top Gun

Des FitzGerald was born in Washington DC in 1951. Des graduated from Harvard University in 1975 and attended a year of graduate school at the University of Washington in Seattle. He moved to Maine in 1978 and founded Ducktrap River Fish Farm the following year. In 1999 Des sold his company to Continental Grain and a year later was named CEO of ContiSea a holding company made up of Ducktrap River Fish Farm and Atlantic Salmon of Maine. ContiSea had 200 +/- employees with over 50 million in annual sales. Des left the company in 2002 and worked as a management consultant with Brimstone Consulting for 2 years and co-taught a class on “Leadership for the 21st Century” at the University of Maine, Orono Business School through 2007. In 2006 he co-founded Dirigo Wind, a regional land based wind development company, along with 4 other partners and was also the co-founder and CEO of BlueMarvel Inc., an HD video company. In December of 2008, Des became the VP of Business Development for Principle Power Inc. a deep-water wind technology company based in Seattle Washington.