The Austal USA Board of Directors has elected Michelle Kruger as Austal USA President. She has been serving as interim president since August 2023.
Kruger joined Austal USA in 2022 because the vp of world companies and help. In that function she led Austal USA’s ship restore and guarantee efforts together with the event of enterprise technique and strategic alliances. She additionally oversaw the get up of Austal USA’s San Diego restore yard together with the supply of a purpose-built 9000-tonne capability dry dock.
Kruger is a marine engineer with greater than 25 years of maritime business expertise in new development, restore, and upkeep operations.
Before becoming a member of Austal USA, she held plenty of management positions throughout General Dynamics together with Electric Boat the place she supported the Virginia-class submarine program and led strategic enterprise improvement actions. At General Dynamics NASSCO she was director of outfitting and led worldwide benchmarking efforts that contributed to facility upgrades maximizing outfitting on the bottom, and was director of restore administration. While at NASSCO she was promoted to vp, new development planning. She subsequently moved to General Dynamics Bath Iron Works (BIW) the place she was vp of operations and led a workforce of 4,000 constructing U.S. Navy DDG 51 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers.
Kruger earned a bachelor’s diploma in marine engineering from the United States Merchant Marine Academy, was commissioned into the U.S. Navy reserves in 1987, and earned a grasp’s diploma in marine engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1995.
