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Sing the engineering prose of Elaine Maslin, our

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CEO has moved on to a full-time position outside of b2b media

John C. O’Malley jomalley@marinelink.com and maritime/offshore energy/subsea, but I’m happy to say that while she no longer makes my life easy with timely, topical and valuable content, she pings me with regularity on the

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Gregory R. Trauthwein interesting things she continues to see in this fascinating subsea market. With that loss, trauthwein@marinelink.com

I’ve decided to start – for the ? rst time in my 30-year career – an MTR Editorial Board. In doing so I’m not looking to simply stick a bunch of high-pro? le names on the masthead

Contributing Writers

Kevin Hardy simply for the sake of sticking a bunch of high-pro? le names on the masthead. Instead,

Celia Konowe

I’ve opted to slow-roll this to start, with the ? rst two members being Tim Gallaudet and

Edward Lundquist

David Strachan

Kevin Hardy, both whom I thoroughly respect and have long, distinguished careers and a palpable passion for this industry and all that it entails. As the year progresses, I’ll broaden

Production Manager this board to include key contributors in various sectors, including academia, offshore

Irina Vasilets vasilets@marinelink.com energy and defense.

With that, 2023 is shaping to be another banner year in our sector, as there are a num-

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Nicole Ventimiglia ber of high-level technological evolutions happening simultaneously. Energy transition is nicole@marinelink.com real, it’s here to stay and the path is clear; but your guess is as good as mine regarding the pace, as the divorce from fossil fuels will not be short, cheap or easy.

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Autonomy is another obvious topic, and in this regard the subsea sector has a sig-

Manager, Marketing ni? cant lead on the greater maritime industry. But in this regard, I’m talking about true

Mark O’Malley momalley@marinelink.com integrated multi-domain marine autonomy and all that it entails, from seamlessly stitching

Accounting together disparate platforms and systems to deploying AI and machine learning to have a

Esther Rothenberger variety of robots working together, to change their mission as information changes. I and rothenberger@marinelink.com the entire MTR team look forward to working with you to bring these tech challenges and

Manager, IT Services

Vladimir Bibik triumphs to light in 2023 and beyond.

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