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H. Elder Brown, Jr.

H. Elder Brown, Jr. is President & CEO of Fidelis

Group Holdings, LLC. For the past 28 years, he has taken Continental Underwriters Ltd. from a small family business to one of the largest brown water marine underwriters in the United States.

Jeff Cowan

Captain Jeff Cowan graduated from the California

Maritime Academy in 1975, ultimately earning and sailing on his Master’s license. He remains involved in maritime issues and is a regular contributor to Mar- itime Professional and MarineNews magazine(s).

Andrew J. Garger

Andrew J. Garger is Vice President, Legal & General

Counsel at WQIS. He is a member of the Maritime

Law Association and the former chairman of the Le- gal and Liability Committee of the International Union of Marine Insurance and current member of the IUMI

Political Forum. He is a graduate of New York Univer- sity School of Law and the United States Merchant

Marine Academy. Additional contribution was pro- vided by Andrew Hoffman, Paralegal at WQIS.

Patricia Keefe

Patricia Keefe is a veteran journalist, editor and com- mentator who writes about technology, business and maritime topics.

Robert Kunkel

Robert Kunkel, President of Alternative Marine Tech- nologies, is currently serving as the technical advisor to

Coastal Connect, a U.S. company actively developing

LNG propulsion as a maritime component of short sea shipping. He is a past Vice President of the Connecti- cut Maritime Association, Past Chairman of the Federal

Short Sea Shipping Cooperative Program and a mem- ber of the ABS Special Committee on Ship Operations.

Barry Parker

Parker, bdp1 Consulting Ltd provides strategic and tactical support, including analytics and communica- tions, to businesses across the maritime spectrum. www.conconnect.com

Harry Ward

Ward leads the transportation and logistics practice at

The McLean Group, a middle-market investment bank based in the Washington, DC area. He has executive management experience in the marine industry and focuses on mergers and acquisitions for mid-sized companies. He is a US Naval Academy graduate.

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