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www.seadiscovery.com Marine Technology Reporter 51Kvaerner Appoints AllenExecutive VP Kvaerner appointed Tony Allen as Executive Vice President for its International business area. Allen has more than 30 years of industry expe- rience and has been part of the cor- porate management with several of the leading EPC contractors for theoil and gas industry, including SNC- Lavalin Inc., Humphries & Glasgow and Earl and Wright. He also worked as a Project Manager and Technical Director for Kvaerner in the 1990s. Eyles, Walters Appointed at 2H Offshore 2H Offshore announced twonew appointments. Tim Eyles becomes the managingdirector of the 2H Offshore group of companies. He will also continueto share the run- ning of 2HOffshore?s engi- neering office inWoking, UK. At the same time,David Walters, joint leader of thecompany?s Houston, USA, office, has been added to the 2H Offshore glob- al management team as a principaldirector. Eyles and Walters joined 2H Offshore in 1998 and 1997 respectively, both directly after gradu- ating from the University of Surrey, UK.Gosling Joins LiquidRobotics Liquid Robotics, developer of the Wave Glider unmanned ocean vehi- cle, and cloud-based data service provider, announced that James Gosling, formerly of Google, has joined the company as chief software architect. The addition of Gosling comes at a time when the company isexperiencing rapid growth in its cus- tomer base, adding strategic new hires, and expanding company opera- tions. In June, Liquid Robotics closed a Series D $22 million financing round led by VantagePoint Capital Partners, the company's first institu- tional investor, together with partici- pation by oilfield services provider Schlumberger. "Liquid Robotics tackles a rocket science problem that does good for the world and is incurably cool," saidJames Gosling. "Liquid Robotics can totally change the way we look at oceans. We'll be able to get a wide variety of detailed data more cheaply and pervasively than any other way. It involves a large data problem and a large-scale control problem, both of which are fascinating to me and have been passions of mine for years." Gosling is best known as the develop- er of the Java programming language. Febo Joins CTG-Sonatech Division CTG-Sonatech division announced the hiring of its new Director of Business Development, Brent Febo. In this capacity, Febo will be respon- sible for organizing, implementing,and accounting for all of Sonatech's business development initiatives and activities. He will be based in Washington, DC, and will continue to make that his center of operations.Febo joins CTG from ITT (former- ly EDO Electro-Ceramic Products), in Salt Lake City where as Director of Business Development he was responsible for the strategic planning, and the implementation of thoseplans with respect to business genera- tion, forecasting, establishing and maintaining good customer relation- ships. Management Changes atAker Solutions' Subsea Alan Brunnen and Tove Røskaft will both take a seat at the executive management team of Aker Solutions following a restructuring of the com- pany's business area Subsea. Mads Andersen who has headed Subsea leaves the company after eight years in the same executive team. Alan Brunnen has headed up Aker Solutions' regional subsea business in Aberdeen and the Controls segment since early 2009. He joined Aker Solutions in 2006 and has nearly 30 years experience from the oil and gas industry. He will now step up to head the new Subsea business area. In his new role, Brunnen will also be responsible for the Brazilian subsea operations of Aker Solutions, which reported significant quality issues related to its deliveries in the second quarter this year. An experienced task force headed by Chief Operating Officer Per Harald Kongelf has been mobilized to support him and the newly appointed Brazil Subsea man- ager Egil Bøyum in evaluating and addressing these issues. This work is still ongoing.The change in organizational struc- ture means that the Umbilicals seg- ment, which represents approximate- ly 20 percent of the former Subsea business area, becomes a business area in its own right. Tove Røskaft has EylesWalters MTR#8 (50-64):MTR Layouts 10/11/2011 9:08 AM Page 51