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Bajpaee Honored

Rajaish Bajpaee, CEO of Bernhard

Schulte Shipmanagement, received the Tanker Shipping & Trade Lifetime

Achievement Award. As head of Bern- hard Schulte Shipmanagement, Bajpaee has overall responsibility for a fl eet of more than 600 ships of various types, 20,000 employees and maritime service, crew management and training centers in over 30 locations around the world.

Fireman Wins David W. Taylor Medal

SNAME awarded its highest technical honor, the David W. Taylor Medal for notable achievement in naval architec- ture or marine engineering, to Howard

Fireman, ABS Senior Vice President,

Asset Performance Management (APM).

After serving 35 years in the U.S. Navy,

Fireman joined ABS in 2013, taking re- sponsibility for the ABS APM group, which helps the marine and offshore in- dustries meet environmental regulatory requirements and assess the operational performance, energy effi ciency and fuel consumption of new and existing vessel designs.

Tsakos to Lead INTERTANKO

INTERTANKO announced that when its Council of Members met this week in Dubai it elected Nikolas Tsakos –

President and Chief Executive of Tsakos

Energy Navigation – as Chairman, suc- ceeding Graham Westgarth who steps down after fi ve years in post.

LR CEO Richard Sadler Honored

Richard Sadler, CEO of Lloyd’s Reg- ister Group Ltd (LR), was honored with the Maritime Fellowship Award at the

Maritime Foundation’s Maritime Me- dia Awards. The Maritime Fellowship

Award is the highest honor bestowed by the Maritime Foundation to an indi- vidual who has made a truly outstand- ing contribution to stimulating public engagement in maritime issues.

Northrop Grumman Names Leavitt

Northrop Grumman Corporation named

Todd Leavitt, vice president of the com- pany’s Maritime Systems business unit, effective immediately. Leavitt will have executive responsibility for all Maritime

Systems programs and products.

Atteridge Retires from Furuno USA

After 30 years of service to Furuno

USA, Inc., Jim Atteridge is retiring as

President and assuming a new role, as

Director and Corporate Advisor. Effec- tive December 1, 2014, Brad Reents will assume the role of President and CFO of

Furuno USA, Inc. In addition: • Dean Kurutz has been promoted to the new position of Vice President of Sales,

Marketing and Product Planning; • Francine Murphy has been appointed to Director of Human Resources; • Rick Walls assumes the new position of General Manager; • Matt Wood has been promoted to the position of National Sales Manager.

WQIS President Hobbie to Retire

WQIS said that Richard Hobbie III will retire from his position as President & CEO of the Water Quality Insurance

Syndicate (WQIS) after four decades as underwriter, claims manager and board member. Hobbie and the board of managers have agreed upon January 1, 2015 as his offi cial retirement date, and he will be available as a consultant to WQIS until Dec. 31, 2017 under the agreement. John Ryszetnyk III, SVP, will be promoted to President of WQIS.

Andy Garger, VP & General Counsel, will be promoted to Senior Vice Presi- dent & General Counsel. John Moy,

VP, Underwriting, will be promoted to

Senior Vice President & Chief Under- writing Offi cer.

Genco Names Wobensmith President

Genco Shipping & Trading Limited said that John C. Wobensmith, the company’s CFO has been appointed as

President effective December 19, 2014.

He succeeds Robert Gerald Buchan- an, who will retire as of the same date.

Buchanan has served as President of

Genco since June 2005. The company also announced that Apostolos Zafolias has been appointed as CFO and Joseph

Adamo has been appointed as Chief Ac- counting Offi cer.

Langh Ship Elects New MD

Oy Langh Ship Ab will receive a new managing director at the beginning of 2015, when the current managing direc- tor, Hans Langh, takes over as Chair- man of the Board for the shipping com- pany. Laura Langh-Lagerlöf, 33, has been elected as the company’s new man- aging director, effective January 1, 2015. “Laura has essentially been part of run- ning the company for a long time al- ready, but now she will be assuming the full responsibility of managing director.

My focus now will be on introducing scrubbers in ships,” said Hans Langh.

The shipping company has fi ve multi- purpose vessels, three of which are used to transport Outokumpu’s steel products and two for the container-shipping ser- vices of Containerships Ltd. The com- pany additionally has roughly 1,000 in-house-designed special containers, mostly for transporting steel.

Keenan Named VP at Gibbs & Cox

Gibbs & Cox, Inc. appointed Patrick J.

Keenan as Vice President, Platform So- lutions Group. In this role, Keenan will have responsibility for leadership and management of the company’s govern- ment and commercial ship design so- lutions across the Gibbs & Cox global portfolio. Prior to joining Gibbs & Cox,

Inc., Pat served as Global Operations Di- rector for Crowley/Titan Salvage.

Laborde Hires Dugas

Laborde Products hired Bobby Dugas as its general service manager, company president Brian Laborde announced.

Dugas has more than 25 years of experi- ence in the engine service business.

SUNY Maritime Inaugurates Alfultis

SUNY Maritime College inaugurated

Rear Adm. Michael A. Alfultis, Ph.D. as its 11th president in early November .

The campus celebrated the investiture of

Dr. Alfultis with a variety of eactivities, which embraced the time-honored tradi- tions of learning and leadership.

Bagley Named VP at Newport News

Ray Bagley has been appointed by Hun- tington Ingalls Industries (HII) as the company’s new vice president of trades operations for its Newport News Ship- building division. Bagley, who earned the distinction of “Master Shipbuilder” for 40 years of continuous service, began his career at The Apprentice School as a painter.

PEOPLE & COMPANY NEWS

Bajpaee Tsakos

Sadler

Atteridge

LeavittFireman

Photo: ABS

Langh-Lagerlöf Dugas

Alfultis Bagley

Wilson

Hobbie III

Photo: WQIS

Photo: Langh Ship

Photo: SUNY Maritime (Photo by Chris Oxley/HII)

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