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Rick Perry Michael Pentony Galal Hamdy technologies. In addition to this $18.5 droid Inc. as vice president of engineer-

U.S. Invests $18.5m in million funding opportunity announce- ing, responsible for leading all engineer-

Offshore Wind Research

U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry ment, $2 million will also be allocated ing and program management activities announced $18.5 million in new De- to research at DOE’s national laborato- at the Kongsberg Maritime subsidiary, partment of Energy (DOE) funding for ries to support consortium R&D activi- including R&D, new product develop- a consortium that will conduct research ties. ment, program planning and execution aimed at reducing the cost of offshore and product support.

NOAA Names Pentony wind in the U.S. As it seeks to capitalize Dr. Rogers brings to the role more on momentum in the offshore wind mar- NOAA has named Michael Pentony than 28 years of experience that spans ket, the U.S. still faces several challeng- as the new Regional Administrator for a broad range of technologies and mar- es, such as deep water requiring ? oating the Greater Atlantic Regional Fisher- kets. Dr. Rogers holds Ph.D. and M.S. foundations, the need for models pre- ies Of? ce in Gloucester, Mass. He will degrees in applied marine physics from dicting how Atlantic hurricanes will im- assume his new duties on January 22, the University of Miami and a B.S. in pact offshore turbines, and supply chain 2018. Pentony has been with the agency physics from Siena College. He re- and operations and maintenance solu- since 2002, serving in a series of posi- ceived an executive education from the tions to address the challenges of build- tions including as the Assistant Regional Advanced Management Program, Har- ing and maintaining turbines at sea. Administrator for the Sustainable Fish- vard Business School; the Sloan Busi-

Setting out to tackle these challenges eries Division since 2014. He succeeds ness School, Massachusetts Institute of and more, the new offshore wind re- retiring Regional Administrator John Technology; and the Scheller College of search and development (R&D) consor- Bullard who had been in the position Business, Georgia Institute of Technol- tium will be a cooperative private-public since 2012. ogy. innovation hub addressing wind plant

Greensea Names Hamdy VP Siegel Joins RBR technology advancement, resource and physical site characterization, installa- Greensea hired Galal Hamdy in the RBR hired Eric Siegel as its new sales tion, operations and maintenance and newly created position of Vice Presi- director. In his new role, Siegel will supply chain technology solutions. dent, Business Development and Part- focus on enhancing the sales and rep-

Under the competitive funding op- nerships. Hamdy has spent the past resentative network to enable RBR to portunity announcement, DOE said it eight years working for Cox Automotive continue its global market growth with intends to select an administrator to co- leading business development for the new products , as well as customer ser- ordinate the collaborative R&D activi- company’s digital marketing business vice and support. Siegel joins RBR with ties conducted by the consortium. The unit. Greensea has increased its staff by 20 years of experience in oceanographic consortium will include members of the 40 percent in the past six months and subsea technology, measurements offshore wind industry, who will con- and science, and has been involved in

Hydroid Names Rogers VP tribute funds to the consortium and use academia, government and private in- the research ? ndings to further advance Dr. Andrew K. Rogers has joined Hy- dustry.

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