New faces at Marine South East
There are a couple of new faces at Marine South East. Howard Holt joined the MSE Board towards the end of last year and Christopher Keegan joined the Chilworth team in January working on skills and training issues alongside David Rea.
A new role has been established at Marine South East to design, develop, co-ordinate and implement a range of skills projects and associated activities focused on addressing the current and future skills needs and priorities of the local marine sector.
The contract which runs to the end of October 2009 has been funded by SEEDA in response to the recently published Solent Waterfront Strategy which provided evidence of the significant economic contribution the marine sector is making to the sub-regional economy. It is important, therefore, to understand how marine sector growth would impose demands on workforce development.
Christopher Keegan has been appointed to the new role and has spent the past seven years working for the boating industry down under in Victoria.
English by birth Christopher has lived in Australia for the past 27 years. With a business development and training background he has worked on a variety of Australian Government funded projects in Melbourne for the peak is this the right word? industry body Boating Industry Association of Victoria. These include:
- developing educational events at boat shows
- researching a marine manufacturing precinct for the Victorian Government
- conducting a Training Needs Analysis
- facilitating two business marine clusters
- writing a national guide and presenting workshops on the training system for the marine industry.
If you would like to contact Christopher email ck@marinesoutheast.co.uk
Howard Holt joined the Marine South East Board towards the end of last year. He will be bringing a Kent perspective to the Board, which meets four times a year to review and guide our activity and strategy.
Howard is Head of Corporate Affairs at the Port of Dover and will also be bringing his expertise as a professionally qualified Chartered Civil Engineer to the MSE Board. He worked for a development corporation and then the wider water industry managing multi-million pound projects in sea defence, flood alleviation, water supply and waste water reclamation.
Howard joined the Port of Dover in 1985 to carry out major port-related civil engineering works and has since held a number of senior positions at the port. In recent years he has developed the area of liaison with external stakeholders and the wider community, and heads up a team whose work this is.
Howard has a particular responsibility for matters related to informing and influencing Westminster and Brussels. He is also currently Vice President of the Federation of Regional and Local Channel Ports (French and English).
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