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PEOPLE & COMPANY NEWS

Billings Assumes OMSA Leadership

The Offshore Marine Service As- sociation announced that Ben Billings has offi cially assumed the position of

President and CEO. Billings comes to OMSA from Washington, D.C. where he has worked for the past nine years on maritime issues in the U.S.

Senate for Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and the Committee on

Homeland Security and Governmen- tal Affairs. Billings takes over for Jim

Adams, who leaves OMSA to manage a start-up business.

Grennan Appointed Global Diving &

Salvage CEO/President

Global Diving & Salvage, Inc. has announced Devon Grennan, Presi- dent for the past four years, will now also take on the position of Chief Ex- ecutive Offi cer.

American Club Strengthens

Management Team

Michael Hansen will join the man- agement team on a full-time basis on January 1 as vice president and global business development direc- tor. Hansen spent many years before joining SCB in various positions at

AP Moller-Maersk (APMM). Jack

O’Kane joins the fi rm as vice president and business development director for the Americas. He has worked both in underwriting and broking, having previously served in senior posts at

AIG, Reliance National, Marsh, XL

Specialty and Tower Group. Boriana

Farrar will also join the New York claims team. In addition to her na- tive language, she is fl uent in English,

Russian and German.

U.S. Superyacht Assn Names New

Board of Directors

The U.S. Superyacht Association has announced its 2013-14 board of directors. John J. Mann, III (Bluewa- ter Books and Charts) will continue his role as Chairman. He is joined on the Executive Committee by Kristina

Hebert– Vice Chairman (Ward’s Ma- rine Electric), Corey Ranslem (Inter- national Maritime Security Associ- ates, Inc.) (Advocacy Co-Chair); Tim

Davey – Immediate Past Chairman (ISS GMT), Peter Schrappen - Ad- vocacy Co-Chair (Northwest Marine

Trade Association), Marketing Chair- man, Bert Fowles from IGY Marinas,

Mark Cline – Treasurer (Cline Finan- cial Group) and Jim Perry – General

Counsel (Perry & Neblett, P.A.)

Safariland Group Appoints Kubasik to Board of Directors

Maui Acquisition Corp, the parent corporation of The Safariland Group announced the appointment of Chris- topher E. Kubasik to its Board of Di- rectors effective immediately. In addi- tion to serving on the Board, Kubasik will also serve as the Chairman of the

Company’s Audit Committee. Kuba- sik served in various senior leadership roles at Lockheed Martin Corpora- tion from 1999 to 2012.

Rolls-Royce Names

Offshore President

Rolls-Royce has appointed John

Knudsen as President - Offshore, in its Marine business. Knudsen will transition into his new role through the month of January 2014. Mr.

Ferrar Hansen O’KaneBillings Grennan

Norman N. DeJong

Norman N. DeJong passed away on November 7, 2013. Norman was one of the founding partners of DeJong & Lebet, Inc., Naval Architects. He was born in Blokker, Noord Holland, the

Netherlands, immigrating to the US after earning a BS in Naval Architecture at HTS Haarlem in 1959. He worked at Phillip F. Spaulding in Seattle, and NASSCO in San Diego before moving to

Jacksonville, FL to work at Gibbs / Aerojet General in 1963. Norman was known for his innovative designs and problem solving ability in the marine industry. His early work in tugboat and other workboat designs started in 1968 when he founded the Naval Architecture fi rm Eagle Marine, which became DeJong & Associates. This was followed by over 25 years of design and engineering work primarily in the passenger vessel industry. Norman was 75 years old at the time of his passing.

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