People & Company NewsMorozov Obenour Olender Jenkinsvices headquartered in Houston, Texas. Decom North Sea Appoints Obenour Joins Horizon MarineHorizon Marine, Inc., an oceanographic He also serves on the company’s board New Chief Executiveservices company specializing in envi- of directors, and served as NOIA Vice The Board of Directors at Decom North ronmental and operational marine data Chairman for the 2013 -2014 term. Tay-Sea (DNS), the offshore oil and gas de-collection and analysis around the world, lor has been President and CEO of Oil commissioning forum, announced the States International, Inc., since 2007. She continues to expand with the recent hire of appointment of Nigel Jenkins as its new also serves on the company’s board of di-Kelsey Obenour. This follows the opening chief executive to lead the organization rectors. Oil States International is a pub-of the Brazilian of? ce in Rio and doubling as it further strengthens its position as the licly traded diversi? ed oil? eld services of space at the Offshore Division in Rich- representative body for the decommission-company, also based in Houston. mond, Texas, to accommodate two ocean- ing industry. Jenkins will take up the post ographers, drifting buoy production and a on July 1, 2014, and replaces Brian Nixon, new laboratory for underwater gliders. who is retiring. Jenkins’ previous roles AML Appoints Olender Obenour graduated from Valparaiso include board leadership positions with Director of EngineeringUniversity with a B.S. in Meteorology Olender earned his PhD in Mechanical AMEC and AECOM and most recently and Geography and a minor in Math- as board director with KDC Contractors, Engineering from the University of Vic-ematics. Following her undergraduate toria, after which he worked for several which has a long and successful track studies, Obenour received her M.S. in years designing instruments and sensors record of working on decommissioning physical oceanography from the Univer- projects on and offshore. He also served as in the forestry sector for FP Innovations. sity of Rhode Island – Graduate School Olender joined AML in October of a director with DNS from 2011 to 2013.of Oceanography. For her thesis, Oben-2011, and after two and a half years as our used 30 years of sea surface temper-Mechanical Designer of AML’s oceano-Harkand Names Brown to ature (SST) AVHRR Path? nder satellite graphic instrumentation, he now takes GOM Teamdata to analyze ocean fronts on global the helm of the entire Engineering team.Global inspection, repair, maintenance and regional scales to observe decadal (IRM) and light construction company and global climate trends since 1982.Harkand appointed Mike Brown as gen-Morozov Earns IEEE eral manager of diving services in North Senior Member StatusNOIA Elects Rynd, Taylor America. A U.S. Navy veteran, Brown Teledyne Marine Systems said that An-The National Ocean Industries Associa- drey K. Morozov, Senior Scientist at has considerable experience of commer-tion (NOIA) Board of Directors elected Teledyne MarineSystems has been el-cial diving in the offshore oil and gas sec-John T. Rynd as Chairman of NOIA and evated to the grade of Senior Member of tor having held number of senior positions Cindy B. Taylor as Vice Chair of NOIA the IEEE. Senior Member is the highest in a career spanning more than 35 years.for the upcoming 2014-2015 term. Rynd professional grade of the IEEE for which He was most recently working with Chet and Taylor assumed their positions at a member may apply. The member status Morrison Contractors as general manager the recent NOIA Annual Meeting. Since requires experience and re? ects profes-of the offshore construction division. Pri-2008, Rynd has been the Chief Executive sional accomplishment and maturity. or to CMC, he worked as vice president Of? cer and President, Hercules Offshore, and general manager with EPIC Divers Only seven percent of the 431,000 mem-Inc., a publicly traded global provider of bers of the IEEE have achieved this level.& Marine Contractors, a subsidiary of offshore contract drilling and liftboat ser- Tetra Technologies; and worked across 36 May 201452 MTRMTR #4 (50-64).indd 52 MTR #4 (50-64).indd 52 5/12/2014 10:21:50 AM5/12/2014 10:21:50 AM