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People & Company News Brown Relieves White Rear Adm.(lower half) Brian B. Brown relieved Rear Adm. Jonathan W. White as commander of the Naval Meteo- rology and Oceanography Command (NAVMETOCCOM) in a traditional Navy change of command ceremony on Aug. 3 at Stennis Space Center. For the past year, Brown has been the Ex- ecutive Assistant to the Oceanographer and Navigator of the Navy in Washing- ton, but he previously served at Stennis as commanding ofÞ cer and executive ofÞ cer of the Naval Oceanographic Of- Þ ce (NAVOCEANO) and on the NAV- METOCCOM staff. NAVOCEANO is NAVMETOCCOMÕs largest subordi- nate command.Ng to Head LITELouisiana Im-mersive Tech- nologies Enter- priseÕs (LITE) newly appointed chief executive ofÞ cer (CEO), Dr. Kam Ng, has ofÞ cially ar- rived and is ac- tive in his new position. Ng was selected in April of this year and is joining the LITE team after retiring from the OfÞ ce of Naval Research (ONR) as the deputy director for research. Ng is relieving Dr. Robert Twilley who has served as the interim CEO for LITE since November 2010. Twilley took the position of interim CEO while also serv-ing as the vice president of research at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and left in August to head up the Loui- siana Sea Grant Program at Louisiana State University (LSU). Ng received his Ph.D. in mechani- cal engineering and applied mechanics from the University of Rhode Island in 1988. He also received an MBA from the Marymount University in 2005, a Master of Arts in international com- merce and policy from George Mason University in 2008, and completed the Senior Executive Fellow Program from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 2002, and the Se- nior Executive Program at the Federal Executive Institute in 2004. FMC: Change at the Top FMC Technologies said that Rob- ert L. Potter has been appointed Presi-dent of the company. Potter assumes this responsibility from John T. Gremp who remains Chairman and CEO. Pot-ter previously served as Executive Vice President of Energy Systems with re- sponsibility for the Subsea Technolo- gies, Surface Technologies and Energy Infrastructure business segments, in ad- dition to several support functions. He has been with the company since 1973. Douglas J. Pferdehirt has joined the company as EVP and COO. WHOI Names New CFO The Woods Hole Oceanographic In- stitution (WHOI) appointed Jeffrey Fernandez to the position of Chief Fi-nancial OfÞ cer and Vice President of Finance. Fernandez joins WHOI after nearly 30 years with the University of California. CTG: New Board Named Channel Technologies Group (CTG) named Ret. Vice Adm. John J. Don- nelly, Ret. Rear Adm. Nevin P. Carr and Ret. Rear Adm. Winford (Jerry) Ellis to the companyÕs Þ rst Strategic Advisory Board (Board). Hydroid Hires Five Hydroid, Inc., a Pocasset-based manu-facturer of Autonomous Underwater Ve- hicles (AUVs), announced several staff changes. Rich Amirault has joined, as Manufacturing Manager; Robert Mur- ray has joined as Customer Service Manager; Libby Signell has joined as Program Manager; Jim McKay has joined as Technical Documentation Product Manager; and Timothy Stam- NOAA Names Glang Nation?s HydrographerGerd Glang was named as director of the NOAA OfÞ ce of Coast Survey and the nationÕs chief hydrographer, respon- sible for mapping and chart-ing of all U.S. coastal waters. The U.S. Senate conÞ rmed his nomination by President Obama to the rank of rear ad-miral (lower half), a prerequi- site for the position. Glang will be responsible for overseeing NOAAÕs hydrographic servic- es, and he succeeds Capt. John E. Lowell, who retired after 29-year career in the NOAA Corps. Glang has spent the past two years as the co-deputy lead of NOAAÕs planning efforts to make AmericaÕs coastal com- munities resilient.A NOAA Corps ofÞ cer since 1989, Glang has a strong back-ground in the hydrographic surveying and seaß oor map- ping science. Glang is a 1984 graduate of the SUNY Mari-time College with a bachelorÕs degree in engineering, He received a graduate certiÞ cate in ocean mapping from the University of New Hampshire Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, and is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School Senior Executive Fellows program. 52 MTRSeptember 2012MTR #7 (50-64).indd 52MTR #7 (50-64).indd 529/10/2012 10:36:30 AM9/10/2012 10:36:30 AM