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78Maritime Reporter & Engineering News NEWSPEOPLE & COMPANIES Cropper Efstathiou (right)HatleyABSCropper New President of Cal Maritime The California State University Board of Trustees named Thomas A. Cropper, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy, as president of California Maritime Academy. Cropper was among the finalists for the position to succeed retiring President William B. Eisenhardt, who has served as president since 2001. He is expected to begin in his new role as president on July 1 fol- lowing retirement from active duty. For the past two years, Cropper has di- rected education and at-sea training forships and aviation squadrons deploying to the western Pacific and the Middle East. From 2008 to 2010, Cropper ledand managed 24,000 people in combatoperations as the deputy commander ofthe U.S. Fifth Fleet in Bahrain. He alsoserved on the Joint Chiefs of Staff Strat- egy Working Group at the Pentagon where he headed a select senior officer team working with representatives of each U.S. armed forces chief, the JointStaff, the State Department and agencies within the cabinet. Cropper earned a bachelor's degree in Engineering Operations from Iowa State, and three master's degrees in Aviation Systems (University of Tennessee), Na- tional Security and Strategic Studies (U.S. Naval War College) and World Pol- itics (Catholic University). Efstathiou Joins SpecTec Americas SpecTec has appointed Evan Efstathiou as Executive Director of SpecTec Amer- icas. Efstathiou worked in Veson Nautical as the Director of Client Services formore than years. Efstathiou graduatedfrom MIT and Harvard School of man- agement and worked the last 11 years in the Maritime and Oil & Gas worlds. INTERTANKO: New MD, 5-Year Plan INTERTANKO?s Council unanimously confirmed the appointment of its current Deputy Managing Director, Katharina Stanzel, as Managing Director of IN-TERTANKO effective July 1, 2012. The Council noted that Joe Angelo will return to his previous position of Deputy Man- aging Director and Director for Regula- tory Affairs and the Americas. INTERTANKO is in the process of fi- nalizing a five year strategic plan, whose main objectives are to look ahead and en- sure that, given the realities of today?s regulatory and economic climate, the As- sociation is well-positioned to face the challenges expected. The Council agreed that the most likely scenario the tanker industry would face in the coming five years would be one of strong environmental concern within an unstable geopolitical state, and that themajor issues confronting our Membersduring this period would be: 1.Sustainability of the tanker industry; 2.Human element 3.Tanker safety and performance 4.Global maritime security threats 5.Greenhouse gas emission reductions 6.Air emission reductions 7.Ballast water management Wärtsilä's Hatley Honored by SNAME In a reception hosted by The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME), John Hatley, Americas Vice President Ship Power, Wärtsilä North America, was announced as the 1st place author in ?The Winning Authors of Best Papers Presented at 2012 Offshore Tech- nology Conference (OTC).? Hatley?s paper titled, ?New Marine Era for Gas?, was presented during the technical pro- gram at OTC. Kriner Joins Resource Power Group Engine sales and service company, Re- source Power Group (RPG) has ap- pointed Michael Kriner as the company?s Houston Branch Manager. The focus of the Houston branch of the MaK and large bore engine business will be Texas and the Gulf of Mexico territories. Kriner is a graduate of the US Merchant MarineAcademy. New MD at Imtech Marine Singapore As of May 21, 2012 Imtech Marine hasappointed Gennaro Pipoli in the positionof Managing Director of Imtech MarineSingapore, a further step in realizing the global ambitions of Imtech Marine andmore specifically in the Asia region. Webb: $100k in Scholarships from ABS Presentation of the check to Webb, pic- tured left to right are Chairman of theWebb Board of Trustees R. Keith Michel, Webb President RADM (Ret) Robert C. Olsen, the first ABS Scholar Jonathan Soja Webb Class of 2013, ABS CEO Christopher J. Wiernicki, and Dean of Webb Richard P. Neilson. Webb Institute received $100,000 in annual scholarships from the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS). The ABS Scholarship Program provides financial support to deserving engineering andnaval architecture students based on GPA, class rank, leadership ability and recommendations.Webb presented the first $50,000 schol- arship on May 10, 2012. The presentation of this scholarship preceded a special lec-ture entitled ?Titanic Revisited, 1912- 2012,?given by Dr. Stephen M. Payne. The second scholarship will be awarded in the fall of 2012 for the 2012-13 aca- demic year. The first ABS scholar, Jonathan Soja ?13, was announced by Christopher J. Wiernicki at a reception hosted on the campus of Webb Institute in Glen Cove, NY. ClassNK: First in Class to Hit 200mgt Mark ClassNK announced that its register had passed the 200mgt mark on May 28,2012. ClassNK Chairman and PresidentNoboru Ueda announced the historicachievement at a party celebrating the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the London office, which was attended by many of the leaders of the maritime community, including IMO Secretary General Koji Sekimizu and IMIF Chair- man Jim Davis CBE. Founded in 1899, the growth of ClassNK?s register has steadily acceler- ated over the years. ClassNK broke the 100 million gross ton mark in 1997, be-fore becoming the world?s largest classi- fication society in 1999. Just 10 years later, ClassNK became the first class so- ciety to exceed 150 million gross tons on its register in 2007. As of 31 May 2012, the ClassNK register accounts for 7,847 ships totaling 200,804,781 gross tons. As ClassNK?s register surpassed more than 190 million gross tons at the end of Sep-tember 2011, some 10 million gross tonshave joined the Tokyo-based class soci- ety?s register in just the past eight months.ObituaryIdarUlsteinIdar Ulstein, who was CEO and Chairman of the board of ULSTEINfor many years, passed away April 29, 2012. Ulstein entered the company first as a 14-year-old in 1948, when his father died. After completing naval ar- chitect studies in 1962, he reenteredthe company as head of design. The company was growing, and when Molde yard was purchased in 1964, he became manager of the new compa- nies. In 1974, after the merger with Hatlø mechanical workshop, he be- came CEO of Ulstein Hatlø. In 1985,the holding company Ulstein Holding was founded and he became CEO. In 2007 he resigned as CEO and becamechairman. He was chairman until sum- mer 2011.Idar developed a relatively small company to a large international group, which at the end of the 1990s had4,500 employees in more than 30 countries. The company, which started business with insertion of engines and repair of fishing boats, eventually, de- veloped its own ship design, divided into series. Equipment and equipmentpackages were also an important partof the activities. The company was listed on the stock exchange in 1997, and all activities except for shipbuild- ing, was acquired by Vickers and later Rolls-Royce in 1999. Idar continued as chairman of the new Ulstein Group, and two of his children became man- agers. The company of today employs about 800 employees in several coun- tries and has activities within ship- building, design and solutions, power and control and shipping.MR June12 # 10 (74-80):MR Template 6/12/2012 10:27 AM Page 78