Dr KIrsi Tikka
Ardmore Shipping Corporation (NYSE: ASC) has actually selectedDr Kirsi Tikka to its Board of Directors as a Class I supervisor and also plans to choose her to represent re-election at its 2020 yearly conference of investors.
Dr Tikka tipped down as Executive Vice President and also Senior Maritime Advisor at American Bureau of Shipping (ABDOMINAL) previously this year.
As we reported last month, efficient September 2, 2019 she came to be an independent non-executive supervisor of Hong Kong based Handysize and also Supramax completely dry bulker expertPacific Basin Shipping Under her solution contract with Pacific Basin, Dr.Tikka will certainly obtain HK$ 650,000 (regarding US$ 83,000) every year for that work.
No word from Ardmore on what her commission there will certainly be, however Curtis McWilliams, Chairman of the Board of Ardmore Shipping, commented,“We are pleased to welcome Dr. Tikka as a Director of Ardmore Shipping, where her specialist maritime knowledge on new technologies and sustainability, as well as her decades of shipping industry experience and guidance, will greatly benefit all shareholders as we continue to strengthen Ardmore’s position as a leading owner and operator of modern, fuel-efficient MR product and chemical tankers.”
Dr Tikka signed up with ABS in 2001 and also held placements that consisted of working as abdominal muscle Executive Vice President Global Marine, Europe Division President, and also as Vice President and also Chief Engineer,Global In latest abdominal muscle duty as Executive Vice President, Senior Maritime Advisor she was accountable for straightening ABS calculated preparation, customer advancement, and also services and product offerings with the market’s technological demands and also demands.
From 1996 to 2001,Dr Tikka was a teacher of Naval Architecture at the Webb Institute in New York, where she was additionally granted an honorary doctorate in 2018. In enhancement to training, she executed research study on vessel architectural toughness and also danger evaluation, along with being proactively associated with the united state National Research Council Marine Board research studies on dual hull vessels.
Dr Tikka additionally helped Chevron Shipping in San Francisco and also Wärtsilä Shipyards in Finland.
She holds a Doctorate in Naval Architecture and also Offshore Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and also a Master’s level in Mechanical Engineering and also Naval Architecture from the University of Technology in Helsinki.
She is a Fellow of both the Society of Naval Architects and also Marine Engineers (SNAME) and also the Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA). In 2012, she obtained SNAME’s David W. Taylor Medal, the greatest technological honor for marine design or aquatic design. In enhancement to her Pacific Basin directorship, Dr Tikka is additionally presently a Foreign Member of the UNITED STATE National Academy of Engineering and also a participant of the U.K. Women in Maritime Task Force.
