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JOHN ECKSTEIN, CHAIRMAN,

PRESIDENT & CEO,

MARQUETTE MARINE TRANSPORTATION

John P. Eckstein serves as Marquette Transportation

Company Holdings, LLC’s Chairman of the Board of

Directors, President and CEO. He joined the company in 1990. Marquette Transportation operates 116 tow and tug boats and approximately 800 barges through three pri- mary segments: river, gulf-inland and offshore.

JOHN ARNOLD WITTE, JR.,

EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, DONJON

John A. Witte, Jr. is Executive Vice President of Donjon

Marine Co., Inc., provider of marine services including marine salvage, heavy lift, dredging and related emergency response services since 1982. Witte also served as

President of the American Salvage Association (ASA) from 2007-2009.

CHARLES JONES, CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD,

AMHERSTMADISON

After serving in the Navy during World War II Charles

Jones went back to work for a U.S. mining company that shipped coal by barges. From there he becames part of the creation of a river transportation company that bought its first barge in 1948. AmherstMadison is a direct successor of a coal company Jones’ grandfather started in 1893 in

Red Star, W.Va. Today AmherstMadison operates 30 tow- boats, 11 floating cranes and 30 construction barges and related equipment.

Leadership Edition

Chairman, Waterways Council, Inc.

Rick Calhoun “As WCI Chairman, I would say the biggest ongoing challenge for our association is always to convince decision-makers in Congress about the critical importance of the nation's water- ways and all that they provide to the nation in terms of exports, jobs, energy efficiency, traffic congestion relief and protection of the environ- ment.”