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PEOPLE & COMPANY NEWS

Stewart Brewster Bass Thibert Skeeter Crenshaw barges and vessels, as well as its barge and vessel repair capabilities. Brewster brings over forty years of experience in the marine construction industry, both in sales and in project management.

GLS Adds Skeeter to

Management Team

The Great Lakes Towing Company has named Nikita Skeeter, a maritime professional with over 25 years of ex- perience in shipbuilding and produc- tion management, as General Manag- er of Great Lakes Shipyard. Previously,

Skeeter spent seven years working at shipyards in the Middle East and previously worked for Newport News

Shipbuilding and NORSHIPCO. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Florida International University and a Master of Science in Electro- mechanical Engineering Technology from University of Miami.

Mercury Marine Taps Bass to Head EMEA Operations

Marty Bass has been appointed Presi- dent - EMEA Mercury Marine. Bass, who previously was vice president of

Mercury’s product category manage- ment group based at Mercury head- quarters in Fond du Lac, succeeds Mike

Shedivy, who has lead EMEA – Mer- cury Marine since 2013. Bass holds a

BS in electrical engineering from the

University of Illinois; a master’s de- gree in mechanical engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy’s postgradu- ate school as well as an MBA from the

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