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38Maritime Reporter & Engineering News NEWSPEOPLE & COMPANIES SalernoTonon DiakunVAdm Brian Salerno USCG to be BIMCO?s US Liaison Officer BIMCO said that the organization?s new US Liaison Officer is to be Vice Ad- miral Brian Salerno, who has retiredfrom the United States Coast Guard as itsDeputy Commandant for Operations inUSCG Headquarters, Washington DC. He will join BIMCO on 1 August 2012. Vice Admiral Salerno took up his final USCG appointment in May 2010, fol-lowing assignments as the Assistant Commandant for Marine Safety, Security and Stewardship. He has also served as the Assistant Commandant for Policy and Planning, and as the Director of Inspec-tions and Compliance at Coast GuardHeadquarters. Tonon Appointed VP, R&D in Wärtsilä Paolo Tonon, MSc (Eng), 42, has been appointed Vice President, R&D of Wärt- silä Industrial Operations as of June 1,2012. He will be responsible for the Researchand Development of Wärtsilä products. Tonon, who joined Wärtsilä in 1998, has held several leading strategic, operational and technology positions. Prior to thiscurrent appointment he has, since 2009,been Vice President, Product Centre Au- tomation, based in Norway, with respon- sibility for overall development and production of the Wärtsilä electrical & automation portfolio. Tonon is a member of the Wärtsilä In- dustrial Operations management teamand reports to Lars Hellberg, Group Vice President, Wärtsilä Industrial Operations. Newport News Shipbuilding Appoints Diakun Huntington Ingalls Industries said that Peter Diakun, vice president and chieftechnology officer of its Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division, has been appointed to vice president of energy pro- grams. Diakun, a 26-year veteran of the ship- yard, will assume responsibility for en-ergy programs while maintaining certain aspects of his current position. In addi-tion to leading NNS' Department of En-ergy programs, he will continue to oversee Virginia Advanced Shipbuilding and CarrierNew CEO at OSX OSX said that Carlos Eduardo Sarden- berg Bellot, current Operations, Engi- neering, Leasing and Developing Officer of OSX assumes the position of CEO ofOSX. Bellot has been an officer (COO) of the company during the last two years. Bellot worked at Petrobras for more than 30 years, where he held several manage- rial positions, including GM of the Cam-pos Basin Business Unit. Bellot replacesLuiz Eduardo Guimarães Carneiro who,after having headed the Company for the past two years, renounced on this date to become the CEO of OGX.New MD for Damen Shiprepair Götaverken Damen Shiprepair Götaverken aims to be the best within the Nordic countries,according to its new strategy. As part of this focus, Monica Svenner has been ap- pointed as the new MD. Svenner has wide industrial experience as MD for several international companies, such as Stena Recycling and Atlas Copco. She is the first woman to take an MD post within the ship repair industry and as aGothenburger she has a burning ambition for her new company. Offshore Inland Marine Promotes McClure Offshore Inland Marine, Industrial, Oil- field Services (OIS) announced James McClure as Production Manager. Mr. McClure joined Offshore Inland in 2010 to direct structural steel projects and off- shore activities. McClure develops and maintains strong relationships with thepeople he supervises and with the cus-tomers served. OIMO is currently oper- ating service centers in Pensacola, FL;Mobile, AL; New Iberia, LA; Galveston, TX; Dos Bocas, MX; and Doula,Cameroon, West Africa. Barnes Appointed at GE Marine?s Commercial Marine Marketing Director GE Marine announces it has appointedJeremy Barnes as the Commercial Ma-rine Marketing Director. In this role, Barnes is responsible forglobal commercial market development activities for GE?s full line of LM marine aeroderivative gas turbines, including in- dustry analysis, strategic planning, cus- tomer education, and channel develop- ment. He is based at GE Marine?s Evendale, Ohio, headquarters. Isolde Liebherr Honored On June 8, 2012, Dipl.-Kfm. IsoldeLiebherr, Vice-President of the Supervi- sory Board of Liebherr-International AG of Bulle, Switzerland, the parent com-pany of the Liebherr Group, was awarded an honorary doctorate of Laws (LLD honoris causa) by the National University of Ireland in Cork, Ireland. In his laudation, J. Philip O'Kane,Emeritus Professor and former Dean ofthe Faculty of Engineering, paid tribute to the outstanding achievements and suc- cesses of Isolde Liebherr. Following the death of Dr.-Ing. E.h. Hans Liebherr in 1993, she and herbrother Dr. h.c. Dipl.-Ing. (ETH) Willi Liebherr successfully continued her fa- ther's legacy, tripling the size of the glob- ally operating family business. At the same time, O'Kane stressed the close tiesthat Isolde Liebherr has maintained withIreland for many years, in particular with the region of Killarney. The Group has operated a production site and a numberof hotels in Killarney for more than 50 years. He used the opportunity to thankIsolde Liebherr for her support for Irishcharitable organizations such as the "Kerry Parents and Friends Association", which provides support for disabled per- sons and their families. Trinity Offshore Rebrands to TY Offshore The re-branding of the company from Trinity Offshore to TY Offshore, accord- ing to John Dane III, is intended to pro-vide clear market positioning for the leading Mississippi-based designer andbuilder of commercial tugs, offshore barges, oil spill response, patrol and oil field support vessels from 10 to 95m (33 to 312 ft.) in length. The name change is also intended todelineate the company from Dallas, Texas-based Trinity Industries, Inc. TY Offshore is currently building four Har- vey Gulf International 302 ft. Dual Fuel Supply Vessels and ten 30,000 Barrel, 297.5 ft. Fuel Barges for FMT. USMMACol (ret.) JamesHELISColonel (ret.) James Helis, Ph.D.,was named as the new superinten- dent for the U.S. Merchant MarineAcademy. Helis, a 30-year Army veteran, will begin work at the Acad- emy next month after spending the past eight years as a department chairat the United States War College. Since 2004, Colonel Helis has led theDepartment of National Security andStrategy at the U.S. Army War Col- lege in Pennsylvania. During his 30 years in the U.S. Army, Colonel Helis served as an Army Ranger and master parachutist and was a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, where he served as Chief of Plans for the NATO International Security Assis- tance Force. His professional for- eign travel includes Belgium, Canada, Estonia, France, Germany, Haiti, Japan, Korea, Kuwait, Kyr- gyzstan, Saudi Arabia, and Sweden. Helis received his Doctorate of Philosophy in International Relations from Tufts University?s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He holds masters degrees from both the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the University of Pennsylvania, and he earned his Bachelor of Science from the U.S.Military Academy in West Point, New York. Colonel Helis and his wife, Jan, have two sons, Corbin, 22, a 2011 West Point graduate, and Ian, 18, who joins the Kings Point Classof 2016 this summer. (Photo: USCG)SvennerLiebherrMR#7 (34-41):MR Template 7/6/2012 10:33 AM Page 38