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PEOPLE & COMPANY NEWS

SSI Global Diving and Salvage

Larkins Pierson Thayer Massa Dudson SUNY CMA Morais DeVilbiss papers and continues to provide in- President of Casualty and Emergency tracts Manager. Lobree has more sights on innovative solutions for the Response, David DeVilbiss has been than 25 years of military experience marine industries. elected as the new American Salvage in maritime operations, human re-

Association (ASA) Vice President. sources, information technology,

NC Ports Welcomes Director of shipbuilding and repair. He earned

Carrier & Trade Development SUNY Students Sweep CMA a degree in Economics from Florida

North Carolina Ports announced State University. He has also earned

Research Competition the addition of Benjamin M. Massa The top three prizes for Connecti- an M.S. in Information Technology as its new Director of Carrier and cut Maritime Association’s 2018 Re- Management (Naval Postgraduate

Trade Development. Previously, Mas- search Competition were awarded to School) and an M.A. in National Se- sa served as Commercial Director, SUNY Maritime College graduate curity and Strategic Studies (Naval

AVP Sales and Marketing for United students. Each year, the CMA hosts War College).

Arab Agencies. During his time with a competition sponsored by D’Amico

UAAI, Massa was responsible for all Shipping Group that awards students

SENER Names Sierra CEO of import and export Sales and Market- for maritime-themed research presen-

U.S. Operations ing activities for UASC in the Ameri- tations. This year’s winners, all SUNY The SENER engineering and tech- cas cluster. Massa also spent six years Maritime graduate students, were An- nology Group has named Mercedes with the Jacksonville Port Authority. dreas Stasinopoulos, of Greece; Tajae Sierra CEO of SENER in the United

Harripersad, of Trinidad and Tobago; States. Mercedes joined SENER in

Dudson Joins Incat Crowther and Erika Stetson, of Astoria, NY. 1985, and in 2012, she was appointed

Incat Crowther has named Ed Dud- Stasinopoulos was awarded the third- Head of Innovation at SENER, a po- son as Managing Director of its UK place prize. Stasinopoulos’ research sition she now leaves to assume the business and as a board member con- paper focused on voyage pro