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Aleksander Askeland Chief Sales Officer

Marc van Heyningen COO

Hiroaki Sakashita President & CEO

Suresh Kavan Strategic Advisor

appointment at YARA MARINE TECHNOLOGIES Yara Marine Technologies has appointed Aleksander Askeland as Chief Sales Officer. He has worked for the Yara group since 2016, starting in the Industrial segment for the Environmental Solutions business unit, then managing the Animal Nutrition business unit. He has worked on strategic projects in Supply Chain and Strategy & Business Development. Previously, Mr Askeland worked as Director for Sales & Business Development for Store Norske, and the Boston Consulting Group.

appointment at DAMEN SHIPYARDS GROUP Since 1 April, Marc van Heyningen is the new Chief Operations Officer of Damen Shipyards Group. This completes the Executive Board of the leading Dutch maritime solutions provider. He is a MSc in Civil Structural Engineering at Delft University and has spent most of his career working for Fluor Corporation in various general and operations management positions. His last role was Vice President of Operations based in Fluor Company Headquarters in Texas.

appointment at CLASSNK Senior Executive Vice President Hiroaki Sakashita has been appointed as President & CEO as well as a Representative Director of ClassNK. Current Senior Executive Vice Presidents Tetsuya Kinoshita, Junichiro Iida, and Dr. Toshiyuki Shigemi will continue in their present roles, joined by Hirofumi Takano and Taira Narisawa as Executive Vice President. Former President & CEO Koichi Fujiwara has been appointed as Chairman of the Board of Directors.

appointment at SONIHULL Industry leader Suresh Kavan is a new strategic advisor on the board of Sonihull. He has over 30 years’ experience in the B2B information and technology industry, holding a variety of positions in sales, marketing, research, technology, product development, business development and general management. He has served as CEO of DMG Information and DMG Events and as Chairman of risk modelling company RMS, and as President of a division of Thomson Reuters.

Taro Kitamura President

Ron Krisanda Executive Chairman

Michael Madely Vice President of Global Service

Sharon Rowlands Strategic Advisor

Taro Kitamura is the new President of Yanmar Marine International (YMI) and head of Yanmar’s Recreational Marine Business Unit. The 30-year company veteran will replace Shiori Nagata, who has been promoted within Yanmar Holdings in Japan after overseeing a strong five-year period of growth for the Netherlands-based recreational marine division. Mr Kitamura is now relocating to the Netherlands following the appointment. appointment at YANMAR MARINE INTERNATIONAL

appointment at SURVITEC Ron Krisanda has been appointed as Executive Chairman at lifesaving equipment specialist Survitec. Mr Krisanda will drive a comprehensive strategic plan to focus on customer needs and profitable growth, and both the Survitec Board of Directors and the Executive Management Team. He has extensive business experience, including the roles of Chairman, President, CEO and COO across various global manufacturing and service businesses. Ecochlor announced the addition of Michael (Mick) Madely to fill a newly created position of Vice President of Global Service. He has had a full career in the global maritime industry with over 25 years’ experience in senior management positions in both Commercial and Technical roles. Prior to joining Ecochlor, Mr Madely held the positions of General Manager and Managing Director for Goltens, firstly Vietnam and latterly China. appointment at ECOCHLOR

appointment at SONIHULL Sharon Rowlands has joined the Sonihull board as strategic advisor. She is CEO of domain name registry and web development service Web. com and on the boards of technology companies such as business software company Pegasystems and the emergency communications provider Everbridge. She has operated billionEuro companies across financial services, media, risk management and driven a number of high-profile digital transformations.