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VT Halter Appoints Laborde as

Board Director

VT Halter Marine, Inc., a sub- sidiary of VT Systems, Inc., appoint- ed Cliffe F. Laborde to its Board of

Directors. Laborde is owner and co- manager of Laborde Marine Services,

LLC and Laborde Brothers

Crewboats, LLC. Laborde previously held the position of Executive VP,

General Counsel, and Secretary to

Tidewater, Inc. until June 2007.

Grove Appointed Chief Technology

Officer, ABS

ABS appointed Todd Grove as

Chief Technology Officer (CTO).

Grove will report to ABS President and COO Christopher J. Wiernicki and be based in the society’s head- quarters in Houston. Grove, a 28- year veteran of ABS, has served as

President and COO of three ABS operating divisions — Europe, Pacific and Americas. He also has served as

Director, Energy Project

Development and Manager, Offshore

Engineering.

Gilliam VP Sales & Chartering,

Crowley Petroleum Services

Crowley Maritime Corporation has promoted Tucker Gilliam to vice president of sales and chartering for

Crowley's petroleum services team.

Gilliam joined Crowley in 1998.

Most recently he worked in the com- pany's labor relations department as director of marine crewing and devel- opment, and from 2009 to the pres- ent, served as general manager,

Dominican Republic/Haiti, for

Crowley's liner services team.

Nickless VP Finance & Planning,

Crowley Shipping & Logistics

Crowley Maritime Corporation promoted David Nickless to vice president of finance and planning for

Crowley's shipping and logistics busi- ness line. Nickless joined Crowley more than 20 years ago and since then has held various positions in trucking, finance and management reporting, including manager of busi- ness planning, and most recently, director of corporate planning.

Anderson Director of

SSQE at Crowley

Crowley Maritime Corporation named Ketra Anderson director of safety, security, quality and environ- mental (SSQE). Anderson began working with Crowley when she served as a freight traffic manager/office manager for the

Bethel, Alaska-based Kuskokwim

Transportation Co., which had joint business ventures with Crowley. Most recently, she held the position of manager of SSQE for Crowley.

Jensen Maritime Changes

Jensen Maritime has appointed

Johan Sperling vice president respon- sible for profit and loss, operations and personnel of the company and

Jonathan Parrot as vice president of new design development.

Both will remain domiciled at

Jensen's headquarters in Seattle.

Sperling is a nine-year Jensen veteran and one of the company's former owners.

Mustang Survival Names CEO

Jim Hartt, former Mustang Survival

Chief Operating Officer, is now the company’s CEO. Bob Askew, former

Mustang Survival President and Chief

Executive Officer will become

Mustang’s Chairman to its newly formed advisory board.

Juettner Ops Manager Alaska,

Global Diving & Salvage

Global Diving & Salvage, Inc. announced the advancement of John

Juettner to Operations Manager,

Alaska Region.

Juettner has been in the commercial diving industry, in Alaska for the past 17 years. He has worked in opera- tional support and as a Dive

Supervisor, for the past seven years.

Jennifer Kuhn joins CBMM

Jennifer Kuhn of Seattle, Wash. has joined the Chesapeake Bay Maritime

Museum (CBMM) in St. Michaels,

Md. as a shipwright apprentice.

During her one-year apprenticeship,

Kuhn will primarily work on the restoration of the Museum’s bugeye, the Edna E. Lockwood.

Laborde

Grove

Gilliam

Nickless

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