Advanced Navigation Appoints New Head of Product
Advanced Navigation appointed Maximilian Doemling as Head of Product Management. Advanced Navigation Chief Executive Officer Chris Shaw said, “Max’s arrival comes at a pivotal time for Advanced Navigation. His strategic direction and extensive experience in shaping product ecosystems are the exact skillset required to expand our portfolio and meet the demands of the growing autonomous systems market. We’re excited to have him on board as we continue to push the boundaries of what’s possible in navigation and robotics.”Maximilian brings over 15 years of
Reducing Complexity in Marine Winches with Powertrain Solutions
The ChallengeAn international engineering technology company that strives to develop unique, innovative, sustainable products for their customers needed assistance with designing a marine winch, which is a critical component in the marine industry. This component is used for the control, lifting, and retrieval of remote operated vehicles (ROVs) on sea/ocean fairing vessels.The winch needed to lift a type of ROV called a hull cleaner, which is designed to remove fouling on the ship hull. This reduces the risk of transporting biological contamination across different zones, and improves fuel efficiency
Kraken Robotics Appoints Adu as Head of Services Business
Kraken, Hogan served as the Commercial Sales Manager – North America for Klein Marine Systems from 2019 to 2023. Specifically, he handled sonar sales and account management for commercial, defense, and law enforcement clients. Prior to that position, Mr. Hogan had held positions in product management, marketing, and technical sales for marine electronics manufacturers Navico and Raymarine. Hogan has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from Rivier University and is a United States Coast Guard veteran; having served tours on an 82-foot patrol boat and the USCGC Eagle
Smedley Named President, COO at Deepsea Technologies Inc.
Blasting and Coating.Smedley's career spans over 34 years in the upstream oil and gas industry. He has an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M university and an MBA from Southern Methodist University. He brings to DTI us considerable expertise in engineering, product management, sales, business development and executive management
RE2 Robotics wins US Navy ROV Manipulation Deal
inspection and maintenance tasks, such as the oil and gas and renewable energy industries.“The goal of CLAMS is to improve control of our RE2 Sapien Sea Class arms mounted on the VideoRay Defender ROV by addressing the two components as a unified system,” stated David Lee, director of product management at RE2. “This will allow topside operators to have more control over semi-autonomous operations while the integrated system is working underwater.”RE2 Robotics senior leadership. Image courtesy RE2 Robotic
Teledyne Marine Strengthens its Product Management Team
Teledyne Marine announced it has appointed Pim Kuus to the newly created role of Senior Hydrographer & Product Manager for Teledyne RESON’s echosounders. Based out of the U.K., Pim rejoins Teledyne Marine having previously spent seven years working for Teledyne RESON as a hydrographic specialist, site engineering manager and global training manager. Having spent the past two years working as a Project Surveyor for Fugro in Aberdeen, Pim also has valuable overseas experience working for Van Oord, Rijkswaterstaat, C&C Technologies (now Oceaneering) and for Geological Survey of Canada
MacArtney Launches NEXUS 8 Multiplexer
held October 12-14 in Southampton, U.K.Continuing MacArtney's long tradition of developing products in consultation with the marketplace, the NEXUS 8 is the result of considerable customer and end-user input to ensure the product will fit the need, as explained by Lars Jørgensen, Head of Product Management: "Naturally, we have our own opinion on what a multiplexer should be able to do, but what's more important is what the customer and end-user expects and needs. We specifically wanted customer input on what they wanted from a new generation multiplexer and their requirements for new
Craigmile Joins Teledyne Marine Sales Team
and technical liaison for customers in the US and Canada that integrate Teledyne Marine’s technology into their own products.Craigmile is a graduate of James Madison University, and has spent the majority of his career at Hilti Inc., where he served in a number of advancing roles spanning product management, sales, business development and strategic planning.Matt Burdyny, Vice President Strategy & Business Development, said, “Teledyne Marine’s products have long been the technology of choice for integration into vehicles and other marine platforms. With our expanding portfolio
Coda Octopus Names CEO of U.S. Subsidiary Colmek
development, for the L3Harris Technologies’ Communications Systems segment," Coda Octopus said.Prior to the merger of L3 Technologies and Harris Corporation, Kane led international business development for L3 Technologies’ Communications and Networked Systems segment, after leading product management at the L3 Technologies’ Broadband Communications sector for several years. "Because of his wealth of experience and expansive network within the defense industry, Mr. Kane will be a key strategic addition to Coda’s current management team. Coda’s Board of Directors
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