New Board members at Marine South East
Marine South East recently appointed two new board members Konrad Aspinall and Keith Read.
Konrad Aspinall is the VT Group Strategy and Business Development Director. His primary responsibilities are developing Group Strategy and indentifying and expoiting new market opportunities as VT diversifies it's activities from ship building into broader support services. Formerly Konrad a business development director in Costain Investments, specialising in structured finance opportunities. Konrad started his career as a transport economist with WS Atkins, moving into WS Atkins investments with the emergence of the Governments PFI initiative. Konrad is also a keen sailor and keeps his Hallberg Rassy 31 at Haslar Marina in Gosport.
Keith Read served as an engineer in the Royal Navy for thirty three years. His appointments included Senior Engineer of the Polaris Submarine HMS REPULSE, Executive Officer of the Clyde Submarine Base, Deputy Director of Logistic Plans, Captain Surface Ship Acceptance and British Naval Attaché in Italy and Defence Attaché in Albania throughout the Bosnia crisis. He attended the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1990 and was appointed CBE in 1997. On leaving the Royal Navy in 1996 he managed the development of investment opportunities in Croatia and Albania for a small finance company, and then set up an engineering consultancy.
He was appointed Director General (now Chief Executive) of the Institute of Marine Engineers in January 1999 and has driven through the Institute's move to its new headquarters and emergence as the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST) with a revised Royal Charter. IMarEST is licensed to award Chartered Engineering and Science status to appropriately qualified engineers and scientists. Keith Read was a founding Member of the ETB; sits on the Science Council and is a member of the Technical Committee of the RNLI. He chairs the Engineering Institutions Chief Executives' Committee (G15). He is a Member of The US Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers and a Fellow of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology, the IET and the Royal Society of Arts.
Konrad and Keith will be joining the team of six non-Executive Directors who sit on the Marine South East Board. For further information go to http://www.marinesoutheast.co.uk/about_us/ and click on Company Structure.
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