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Authors Contributors &

Steve Candito is the CEO of Eco- two decades of maritime industry chlor, Inc. Prior to joining Ecochlor, experience, including more than

Steve was Founder, President and 14 years in environmental and

CEO of Foresea Consulting where planning positions at the Port of he provided various advisory ser- Long Beach, the nation’s second

MarineNews vices including strategic planning, busiest seaport, and senior man-

April 2018 regulatory compliance and cri- agement roles in private consult-

Volume 29 Number 4 sis management to the maritime ing and logistics development.

and environmental communities.

Before Foresea, he was President Robert Kunkel, President of Al- Jelenic and CEO of National Response ternative Marine Technologies,

Corporation (NRC). During his 20+ previously served as the Federal years at NRC he grew the busi- Chairman of the Short Sea Ship- ness from a start-up to a leading ping Cooperative Program under global emergency response and the Maritime Administration and environmental services f rm. Steve the USDOT from 2003 until 2008. graduated from Hofstra Univer- A past Vice President of the Con- sity School of Law and the United necticut Maritime Association, he

States Merchant Marine Academy. is a contributing writer for Marine-

News. A graduate of the Mas-

Tom Ewing is a freelance writer sachusetts Maritime Academy, specializing in energy and envi- Kunkel sailed as a licensed engi- ronmental issues. neer and continued his career in ship construction at NASSCO and

Candito Kunkel

Rick Gallenberger is Great Lakes Hyundai Heavy Industries, among

Regional Marine Specialist for Sher- others. He is a senior member of win-Williams Protective & Marine the Special Committee on Ship

Coatings. He is NACE Level I Certi- Operation with ABS and an elect- f ed and has been with Sherwin- ed member of the NCB.

Williams for 29 years, including the last six years as a dedicated marine Andrew Pfaller is a Product Man- representative. He works with f eet ager at Miller Electric Mfg. LLC, a and vessel owners to help protect global provider of welding equip- their assets, along with servicing ment and manufacturing. Based on shipyards and contractors to pro- a foundation of real-world welding, mote ef ciencies with their coating Pfaller achieved a BS in Welding procedures. He can be reached at Engineering Technology prior to

[email protected]. starting his career as a Welding En-

Ewing Pfaller gineer at Miller in 2012. Andrew is

Thomas A. Jelenic is Vice Presi- an AWS CWI and manages the cur- dent for Pacif c Merchant Shipping rent portfolio and leads customer-

Association (PMSA). Mr. Jelenic back new product development works with policy makers, regula- for the TIG Solutions Division.

tors, industry leaders and other entities to help ensure that sound Steve Zakula is an electrical en- science and industry issues are gineer who has been in the drives part of the discussion as California industry for 25 years. He has fo- continues to call for the increased cused on applications, sales and use of zero and near-zero emis- marketing. He is a Senior Product sions equipment at California’s Marketing Manager for Danfoss ports and throughout the goods Drives. Reach him at steve.zaku-

Gallenberger Zakula movement industry. Jelenic has [email protected].

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