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54MNMay 2012PEOPLE & COMPANY NEWS Tidewater: Changes at the Top Tidewater Inc. has announced that Dean Taylor, its President and Chief Executive Officer, will retire as an executive officer of the company effective May 31, 2012, after a 34- year career with Tidewater. Mr. Taylor will remain on the Board of Directors, and serve as Tidewater?s non-executive Chairman of the Board. Mr. Jeffrey M. Platt will become Tidewater?s new President and Chief Executive Officer effective June 1, 2012. Mr. Platt has been Tidewater?s Chief Operating Officer, overseeing Tidewater?s domestic and international marine operations, sinceJuly 2006. Mr. Platt joined Tidewater in 1996 as General Manager of its Brazilian operations following a 12-year career at Schlumberger. Jeffrey A. Gorski will succeed Mr. Platt as Tidewater?s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Gorski joined Tidewater in January of this year after a 28-year career at Schlumberger. Tidewater Inc. owns 342 vessels, the world's largest fleet of vessels serving the global offshore energy industry. Idar Ulstein Passes Away Idar Ulstein, CEO and Chairman of the board of ULSTEIN for many years, passed away Sunday night. Ulstein entered the company first as a 14 year old in 1948, and after com- pleting naval architect studies in 1962, he became the company?s head of design. He developed a relatively small company to a large internation-al group, which at the end of the 1990s had 4,500 employees in more than 30 countries. The company eventually developed their own ship design, divided into series. The com- pany was listed on the stock exchange in 1997, and all activities except for shipbuilding, was acquired by Vickers and later Rolls-Royce in 1999. The company of today employs about 800 employees in several countries and has activities within shipbuilding,design and solutions, power and con- trol and shipping. Idar had cancer and died peacefully with his familyaround him at the age of 78. Stork Technical Services Announces Senior AppointmentsStork Technical Services, a global provider of knowledge-based asset integrity management services for the oil and gas, chemical and power sec- tors, has strengthened its senior man- agement team with two key appoint-ments. Dave Workman has been appointed to the new position of Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Erik-Jan Bijvank as Senior Vice President (SVP) UK and Africa. Workman and Bijvank will both be based in Aberdeen, UK, which is the operational hub for the company?s upstream oil & gas business, and take on their respective roles with immedi- ate effect.Crowley Scholarships Awarded Crowley recently awarded Thomas B. Crowley Sr. Memorial Scholarships to Ariel Zhou and CaitiCampbell, who are taking part in the Maritime Studies Program of Williams College and Mystic Seaport this spring. They were chosen for their strong academic records, interest in maritime studies and financialneed. Zhou, a native of Nanjing, China, is studying biology at Bryn Mawr College. She joined the Williams-Mystic Maritime Studies Program to gain a broader perspective of all aspects of marine science andmaritime history. Campbell, a native of New Jersey?s Barnegat Bay, is pur- suing a bachelor?s degree in environ- mental communications with aminor in maritime studies atPennsylvania?s Moravian College of Bethlehem. Recently, Zhou and Campbell went on a harbor tour of Seattle onboard Crowley?s tug, Guardsman, as part of their Pacific Coast field trip. Crowley offers schol- arship opportunities for two students per semester who otherwise wouldn't be able to afford tuition for the pro- gram. The Thomas B. Crowley Sr. Memorial Scholarship program: www.crowley.com/scholarships Crowley Scholarship Winners GorskiTaylorStork ManagementUlsteinMN#5 (50-59):MN 2011 Layouts 5/7/2012 10:20 AM Page 54