Under a reorganization initiated by Chief Executive Jon
Slangerup, the Port of Long Beach has filled four executive posts with staff
veterans.
Dr. Noel Hacegaba, who has been serving as the Acting Deputy
Executive Director/Chief Operating Officer since June 2013, was named the new
Managing Director of Commercial Operations/Chief Commercial Officer. Prior to
the 2013 acting appointment, Hacegaba was Executive Officer to the Board of
Harbor Commissioners, a position he was appointed to in July 2010.
The newly created Commercial Operations Bureau, now overseen
by Hacegaba, includes the Business Development, Security Services, and Tenant
Services & Operations divisions. Hacegaba is responsible for all commercial
matters and serves as the primary liaison to the port’s customers.
Additionally, Sean Gamette, who has been serving as Acting
Assistant Managing Director of Engineering/Chief Harbor Engineer since July
2013, has been named the new Senior Director of Program Delivery/Chief Harbor
Engineer. Gamette, who joined the port in 2003, was promoted to Deputy Chief
Harbor Engineer in the Program Management Division in 2009.
As now organized, his part of the Engineering Bureau
includes the Program Management, Construction Management and Project Controls
divisions.
Also, Roger Wu has been promoted to the newly created
position of Assistant Director of Business Development. Before that, he’d been
Manager of Commercial Trade – Ocean Carriers since June 2014. He was hired by
the port as a marketing manager in 2007.
Eamonn Killeen, a Senior Port Leasing Officer, has been
appointed to the position of Assistant Director of Real Estate, to succeed Gail
Wasil, who retired in August. Killeen started with the port in July 2002.
The new appointments help fill a leadership void at the port
caused by the exits of more than half a dozen upper managers from mid-2013 to
mid-2014, including those in the positions of Deputy Executive Director/Chief
Operating Officer, Managing Director of Trade Development & Port
Operations, Director of Construction Management, Managing Director of
Environmental Affairs, Chief Finance Officer and Director of Information
Management.
