Brian Leathers
With no ships on its existing order publication Philly Shipyard has actually proclaimed its purposes to “go gray” as well as look for united state federal government agreements. It has actually currently been successful in turning into one of 4 shipyards granted agreements worth $2.9 million each to perform style research studies for the suggested Common Hull Auxiliary Multi-Mission Platform (CHAMP) vessel (see earlier tale).
In a stock market news today, the shipbuilder revealed that it is to designate a Chief Financial Officer with “deep government contracts experience” which Brian Leathers will certainly think the CFO placement right away complying with the 2nd quarter 2019 conference of the business’s board on July 15, 2019.
Leathers will certainly change Jan Ivar Nielsen, that is surrendering to seek one more executive duty within the Aker team: General Manager in Ghana for the freshly developed investment firm Aker Ghana Industrial Corporation (AGIC). Nielsen will certainly stay readily available to the business till August 15, 2019 to guarantee a smooth shift.
Leathers has actually worked as the business’s Strategy as well as Compliance Officer for the previous 6 months, reporting toNielsen Prior to that, Leathers was involved by the business as an expert relative to its tactical initiatives to place the shipyard as one that can carry out both federal government as well as industrial job. As the brand-new CFO, Leathers will certainly report straight to chief executive officer Steinar Nerbovik.
WAS AUSTAL United States SVP as well as CFO
Leathers formerly functioned as Senior Vice President as well as Chief Financial Officer at Austal United States. During his period, Austal United States expanded from less than 1,000 staff members to greater than 4,000 staff members, transformed from an industrial shipyard right into a federal government service provider as well as was granted over $6 billion in Navy job.
“I am delighted to welcome Brian to the senior management team as our new CFO,” statedNerbovik “His strong performance here at Philly Shipyard and his significant experience with Navy and other government shipbuilding programs shows he is well-suited for the role as we transition our shipyard into a compliant government contractor.”
Leathers holds an Executive Masters in Business Administration from Troy University, a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting from the University of West Florida as well as is a grad of the Graduate School of Banking at Louisiana State University
