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PEOPLE & COMPANY NEWS

Volvo Penta Port of Oakland

Bjuve Lytle Huibers Wan Calhoun Tomley tors and today, serves as Secretary of

Changes to Volvo Penta the National Waterways Foundation.

Executive Group

After 26 years with Volvo and 7 as Pres-

Port of Oakland names ident of Volvo Penta Americas, Ron

Wan Executive Director

Huibers will retire from his current role and move to another role within Danny Wan, who has been serving as

Fair Winds and following

Volvo Penta. Succeeding Ron will be the Port of Oakland’s interim Executive

Seas for Dredging Pioneer

Martin Bjuve, currently CFO and Director since last summer, and was Port

William Gahagan

SVP Business Of? ce Volvo Penta. The Attorney for six years before that, has been named permanent Port Executive

William G. Gahagan, P.E. planned transition date will be Janu- passed away on November 14, ary 1, 2020. Martin Bjuve has been Director. He replaces Chris Lytle who 2019. He was 89 years old. A with Volvo Penta for 17 years and is a retired in July after six years at the helm graduate of Yale University and the member of the Volvo Penta Executive in Oakland. From 1996 to 2000, Wan graduate engineering program at represented Oakland, Alameda and San

Group. As SVP & CFO, his responsi-

Stanford University, he served in Leandro on the EBMUD Board. He bilities included overall strategy devel- the U.S. Marine Corps during the opment, as well as process and IT. The brings more than two decades of experi- time between graduating from Yale recruitment of a new CFO and SVP, ence in public agency law, ? nance and and entering Stanford. A dedicated Business Of? ce Volvo Penta is initiated environmental policy, community rela- lifelong pioneer and leader in the and will be announced at a later stage. tions and strategic planning. dredging industry; he was an engi- neer by schooling and trade. Bill’s

WCI SVP Debra Calhoun Harbor Commission family started Gahagan Overseas

Honored by NRHOF Elevates Tomley to Top

Environmental Role

Construction Company (later the Waterways Council, Inc. and its Se-

Gahagan Dredging Corporation), nior Vice President, Debra (Colbert) The Long Beach Board of Harbor becoming a leading international Calhoun, were honored in November Commissioners has voted to promote dredging contractor from its origin with National Rivers Hall of Fame Heather Tomley to Managing Direc- in 1898. Gahagan Dredging devel- (NRHOF) Achievement Awards. tor of Planning and Environmental oped and pioneered the use of spi- Helping move the needle at WCI Affairs for the Harbor Department. der barges and hydraulic unloaders and within the industry, Calhoun was Tomley, with the Department since and was known for innovations also honored by the NRHOF for her 2005, has served as the Acting Man- aging Director for the past 12 months in equipment and dredging tech- nearly 25 years of serving as an effec- niques for dif? cult projects. Bill tive voice on behalf of America’s river while the Port conducted a nation- became a consultant to Great Lakes transportation industry. In addition to wide search for candidates for the

Dredge & Dock in 1972. Within her impact at WCI, Calhoun served a executive position. Tomley now leads

GBA and throughout the dredg- variety of maritime industry clients as the Port’s Environmental Planning, ing industry, countless stakeholders the former President/CEO of Colbert Transportation Planning and Master bene? ted from Gahagan’s unsel? sh Communications. She also served in Planning divisions. She earned her BS sharing of knowledge – an inspira- public affairs and communications in Chemistry from California Poly- technic State University and her Mas- tion to the best of the best. for the American Waterways Opera- 51 www.marinelink.com MN