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Management President, Chief Executive Officer: Douglas A. Tilden President,
Chief Executive Officer: Douglas A. Tilden Tilden relocated overseas with U.S. Lines in 1978, where he worked nine years in various management positions in Asia, the Middle East and South America. In 1984 he was elected an officer of the company, serving as vice president of the Middle East Division and later as vice president of U.S. Lines' South American subsidiary until U.S. Lines' terminated shipping activities in 1987. Tilden joined Marine Terminals Corp. in 1987. He was appointed vice president in July of that year. His successive appointments included the newly created position of executive vice president in 1990, chief operating officer in 1992, and president on April 1, 1996. He maintains an active interest in international affairs, having extensive professional and personal contacts in many overseas locations. Chief
Financial Officer: Roger Silva Mr. Silva began his career with Price Waterhouse in Phoenix, Arizona. He is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a B.S. from Arizona State University and is a member of the Pacific Maritime Association Finance Committee. Chief People Officer: Arthur J. Reimers Mr. Reimers is responsible for proactively managing the personnel development of MTCH and its affiliates so that MTCH entities attract, retain and develop the best personnel in the industry consistent with MTCH’s service orientation and effectively managing the administrative back-office work functions for the MTCH entities. As Chief People Officer, responsible for the overall development of the “people” resources of the company in coordination with the entity Presidents, Area VPs and Corporate Department managers. Chief
Information Officer: Lawrence C. Grotte Prior to joining MTCH, Grotte’s career has spanned over 30 years serving as a CEO/C-level executive and management consultant for several Silicon Valley companies within both Fortune 500 and emerging technology/venture capital-backed sectors. Representative companies include Measurex, Four-Phase Systems, Shaklee, Local Silence, LGES and Stellar GPS. Grotte started his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers initially as part of its Business Assurance practice and later as part of its Emerging Technology practice. Grotte has served as Chairman of the Inc® CEO Council of Growing Companies, Chairman of the ASTD® Silicon Valley Total Quality Management Task Force, and as Group Chairman for TEC International, a CEO leadership development organization. He was appointed by the White House to serve on a twelve-member U.S. business leaders’ delegation to Japan. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Visual Harmonics, a digital-imaging software company and is an active member of the BPM Institute, a business process management professional organization. Executive
Vice President - Corporate Development: Steven G. Lautsch MTC Holdings is part of AIG Investment’s portfolio of terminal operating companies in the Americas which includes Marine Terminals Corp., Ports Americas and Amports. In 2006, the combined company handled more than 10 million land and sea containers and well more than one million automobiles. MTCH’s customer base controls the largest market share of international containers in the Trans-Pacific trade. Of additional significance in this transaction, Highstar’s companies have a strong foothold in México, with operations at Lázaro Cárdenas, Mazatlán, Altamira and elsewhere in México. Prior to joining MTC Holdings, Lautsch was senior V.P. for Embarcadero Systems Corporation’s worldwide commercial operations. Preceding ESC, Lautsch was the president and founding partner of The Kingsley Group, an international consulting firm specializing in strategic planning, mergers and acquisition execution. Through the establishment of Transporté Internacional, Lautsch was a key figure in creating dialogue, debate and thought leadership between government and private stakeholders. Throughout the 1990s, Kingsley was heavily involved in cross-border transportation and business privatization initiatives for both the buy and sell sides. Lautsch has also held a number of high-level operating and commercial positions in the railroad industry. Lautsch is a member of the American Association of Port Authorities, Council of Logistics Management and the Intermodal Association of North America. He has keynoted and addressed many trade conferences, industry organizations, government and legislative bodies. Executive
Vice President of Operations Services: David F. Adam In 1991 Adam moved to Oakland to manage the reopening of Oakland’s Seventh Street Public Container Terminal after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. He returned to Southern California in June of that year to serve as terminal manager in Los Angeles for Yang Ming Line’s the first dedicated container terminal on the West Coast. Adam’s responsibilities increased rapidly during the next few years. He returned to Northern California in 1992 to assume the position of general manager for MTC’s Northern California container business. By 1993 he was appointed general manager for all MTC’s business in Northern California. In 1994 Adam was promoted to area vice president for Northern California and then to senior vice president for the entire California region in 1996. He was appointed to his current position as executive vice president for all MTC operations on the West Coast in 1997. Adam is active in the Pacific Transportation Association and serves as an MTC alternate representative for the Pacific Maritime Association’s board of directors. He has served on the P.M.A. steering committees in both Northern and Southern California and is currently serving on the Coast Steering Committee as the 1999 contract negotiations representative. Executive
Vice President, Container Operations: Walter J. Romanowski In 1985, Romanowski joined Ducal Ltd., a terminal and general stevedoring operator, as a Superintendent / Port Captain. After 3 years of working domestically and internationally, Romanowski was promoted to General Manager responsible for operation, sales, administration and accounting in Long Beach. In 1989 Ducal Ltd. was merged into California United Terminals. Romanowski worked a variety of positions, using his operations and sales experience until he was promoted to President / COO in 1995. He was responsible for all activities at CUT, including Port of Long Beach lease negotiations, customer negotiations, IT enhancements, labor relations, finance and operations. Romanowski joined MTC in the capacity of Vice President, Southern California on April 15, 1999. In November of 2002, Romanowski was promoted to Executive Vice President of the Joint Venture Container LOB for MTC. Romanowski still maintains the many contacts he has made both domestically as well as internationally to keep apprised of the many fast changing issues in our industry. Executive
Vice President, General Stevedoring Operations: Donald F. Wylie Wylie rejoined MTC following 13 years at the Port of Long Beach, eight years as trade and maritime services director and the last five years as managing director of maritime services. Wylie's industry experience began with Cooper Stevedoring Co. in Mobile, Ala., (now Cooper/T. Smith Corp.), starting as a ship superintendent and later opening a branch for Cooper in the Port of Norfolk, Virginia. In 1976, he moved with Cooper to Long Beach, Calif. Wylie was promoted to vice president in 1984, overseeing Cooper's operations on the West Coast. Later, he managed the Husky Container Terminal in Tacoma, Wash., helping to design and operate the first West Coast on-dock container intermodal rail yard. After 15 years with Cooper, Wylie left in 1988 and relocated to Oakland as the vice president and general manager in charge of container operations at Transbay Container Terminal. Wylie subsequently moved to Marine Terminals Corp., in Oakland, as Northern California general manager. A native of Decatur County, Tenn., Wylie attended Union University in Jackson, Tenn., where he majored in psychology. He subsequently earned a Bachelor's Degree from Thomas Edison State College. Wylie has served on the boards of directors of the Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce, the Propeller Club's Los Angeles/Long Beach chapter, and the Board of Trustees of Long Beach Memorial Medical Center. He is a past president of the Rotary Club of Long Beach and the International Business Association of Southern Calif., and is past chair of the Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce. Wylie also has been a member of the advisory board for the School of Business at California State University, Long Beach, and the Long Beach Mayor's Economic Development Council. President-MTC East: Alfred
C. Giannetti In 1989, Giannetti joined Marine Terminals Corp. as terminal manager and was later promoted to general manager of the Hanjin Terminal at Long Beach. His successive appointments within MTC have been: Vice President Southern California, 1993; Senior Vice President Sales East Coast, 1996; and Executive Vice President Sales & Marketing, 1998. In 2002, Al was appointed President of East Coast Holdings and MTC East and is also responsible for all east coast and gulf business development.
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