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turing and facilities, responsible for all

Kitamura to Lead Yanmar Marine manufacturing and facilities operations. Yanmar announced that Taro Kitamura has

She has more than 22 years of shipbuild- been appointed as the new President of ing experience. Gary Fuller was promoted Yanmar Marine International and head of to vice president of feet support programs. YANMAR’s Recreational Marine Business

He brings 38 years of in-depth experience. Unit, effective April 1, 2020. Marcel Bors- boom has been named General Onboard

FSL Trust Appoints Wenker

System Business Director of YMI. As

FSL Trust Management appointed Markus the Managing Director of VETUS since

Wenker as Chief Financial Offcer Desig- 2009, he will retain this position and will nate of FSLTM. Wenker will take over the also oversee management of additional role and responsibilities as Chief Financial YANMAR companies Flexofold and

Offcer on May 4, 2020, following a thor- Smartgyro. ough handover process with the current

Yara

Chief Financial Offcer, Mr Alan Mitchell,

C-Job Opens Athens Offce

Yara Appoints Askeland as New CSO who is retiring. C-Job Naval Architects is set to open an offce this spring in Athens, Greece, with

Kuosa Named CEO of NAPA

C-Job veteran Nikos Papapanagiotou tak-

NAPA appointed Mikko Kuosa as Chief ing on the role of General Manager and

Executive Offcer. Kuosa assumes the will lead the new offce in Athens. position from Ilmo Kuutti, who served as CEO of NAPA Group for three years.

Motor-Services Hugo Stamp

Kuosa holds a master’s degree in Naval

Acquires TurboUSA, Inc.

Architecture from Helsinki University of Motor-Services Hugo Stamp, Inc. (MSHS)

Technology, Finland. a premier provider of diesel engine prod- ucts and services, entered into a defnitive

Yara Appoints Askeland as New CSO acquisition agreement with TurboUSA,

Yara Marine Technologies has appointed Inc., a provider of maintenance and repair

Aleksander Askeland as Chief Sales Of- services for turbochargers. The acquisition fcer, effective March 1, 2020. Askeland became effective on February 20, 2020. has worked for the broader Yara group Under the acquisition, leadership and staff since 2016, starting in the Industrial seg- of TurboUSA, Inc. will join the MSHS ment for the Environmental Solutions team and the TurboUSA brand will be

Kitamura to Lead Yanmar Marine business unit, then managing the Animal retired.

Nutrition Business unit.

NAPA

C-Job Yanmar

FSL Trust

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