Less than two weeks after announcing that four vacant
executive positions had been filled, the Port of Long Beach has now named four
more people to upper management roles.
The four professionals all have long experience in the fields
of engineering, maintenance and finance, and come from outside the Port of Long
Beach. Two of the positions are newly created and two were vacated earlier this
year.
Duane Kenagy has been appointed to the new position of
Capital Programs Executive to oversee the port’s capital improvement program.
He’ll report directly to the port’s chief executive, Jon Slangerup. Kenagy has
30 years of experience in engineering and management and had been with the
Moffatt & Nichol engineering consulting firm since 1994, where he rose to
Senior Vice President.
Also appointed to a newly created engineering leadership
position is Diane Pierson, the new Director of Project Controls. The port says
the new Project Controls Division is part of Engineering’s Program Delivery Group,
and will focus on cost and schedule oversight of development programs.
Pierson comes to the port from City of Hope medical center
in Duarte, Calif., where she was Project Controls Manager from 2011 to 2014. Previously,
she was Chief of Project Controls for the Los Angeles District of the US Army
Corps of Engineers from 2000-2011, where her work included oversight of project
controls for Army Corps dredging projects at the Port of Long Beach.
Betsy Christie, who was Chief Financial Officer for
container terminal company NYK Terminals from 2008 to 2013, has been appointed
the port’s new Director of Finance. Before NYK, Christie worked for LifeMasters
Supported SelfCare, where she held various positions – CEO, VP Finance/Controller,
and Accounting Manager.
The port’s new Director of Maintenance, Fred Greco, has 29
years of maintenance management experience with airports, cargo operations,
surface transportation, rail and public works. He has been the Public Works
Operations Superintendent with the City of Anaheim since February 2013 and prior
to that, he was the Deputy Director of Operations and Maintenance for the
Sacramento County Airport System from 2002-2012.
In mid-October, the port announced it had appointed people
to four other executive positions: Managing Director of Commercial
Operations/Chief Commercial Officer, Chief Harbor Engineer, Assistant Director
of Business Development and Assistant Director of Real Estate.
The new appointments have largely filled a leadership void that
emerged at the port after 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.
