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PEOPLE & COMPANY NEWS

Ekse Ponstein Mulherin ChiarelloDavidsonWhittakerSchaller ing service as President of Maersk and Chris Brown, scienti? c program to Sea Cloud as a deck hand in 1996.

Logistics USA. Chiarello was named manager. Dr. Nick Welschmeyer, lead This ? rst position on a sailing ship a White House Champion of Change scientist, provides science testing and began her journey into securing her for his work bringing LNG to the technical methods development. captain’s license. maritime industry.

Retired President of Newport Schaller to Lead Voith Group

Ponstein Appointed to News Shipbuilding Receives Stephan Schaller has been named

NOLA PoC Navy League Award head of the Corporate Board of

Gov. John Bel Edwards has appointed Matt Mulherin, former executive Management at Voith GmbH &

Charles H. Ponstein to the Board of vice president of Huntington Ingalls Co. KGaA and will lead the interna-

Commissioners of the Port of New Industries and president of Newport tional technology company. Schaller

Orleans. Ponstein will serve a ? ve-year News Shipbuilding, was recognized has supported Voith since 2015 as term succeeding William T. Bergeron. by the United States Navy League as a member of Voith’s Shareholders’

Ponstein is a landlord and owner of a 2018 recipient of its annual Fleet Committee. Schaller has been em- several commercial and industrial Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Award. ployed in multiple management and buildings, and received his Bachelor This award honors an industry leader leadership positions at Linde, Schott of Science in Business Administration who has demonstrated the leader- and Volkswagen and was previously from the University of New Orleans. ship, statesmanship and dedication to responsible for the motorcycle divi- the nation that were exhibited by the sion of the BMW Group.

Navy League Recognizes CMA award’s namesake. Mulherin began for Scienti? c Achievement AAPA Elects Friedman as his career in 1981 working third shift

The United States Navy League has as a nuclear test engineer and over the

Board Chairman named California State University next three decades earned positions of The American Association of Port

Maritime Academy’s Golden Bear Fa- increasing responsibility. He assumed Authorities (AAPA) elected Wil- cility as the recipient of its 2018 Albert the role of president in 2011. liam D. Friedman, president and

A. Michelson award. The award rec- chief executive of? cer for Cleveland- ognizes scienti? c or technical achieve- Cuyahoga County Port Authority, to

Whittaker is First Canadian Fe- ment that results in a signi? cant serve as the association’s chairman male Passenger Ship Captain improvement in the strength of our Sea Cloud Cruises announced the of the board for the 2018-19 activ- maritime forces or the enhancement promotion of Kathryn Whittaker to ity year. He will assume the AAPA of our industrial technology base. The captain of the Sea cloud II. Whittaker chairmanship from Steve Cernak,

Golden Bear Facility is the only land- is the ? rst female Canadian captain of chief executive and port director for and sea-based facility on the West a passenger cruise ship. Whittaker’s Port Everglades, who began his one-

Coast designed to test and evaluate path to captainship is unconvention- year term on Oct. 4, 2017. Friedman ballast water treatment systems. Key al. While at university in Toronto she has worked in port authority man-

CMA personnel for the Golden Bear took time off from school and worked agement for nearly two decades. Be-

Facility include Bill Davidson, direc- on touring boats in Toronto Harbor tween 2000 and 2004, Mr. Friedman tor; Rich Muller, associate director; for 3 years, and then made her way was CEO of the Ports of Indiana. He 67 www.marinelink.com MN

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