VOICES FROM THE MARITIME INDUSTRY

Captain Kate McCue, Celebrity Equinox, Celebrity Cruises

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Meet Captain Kate McCue, currently Captain of the CELEBRITY EQUINOX and a role model for many young people in the world.

Captain Kate was the first American woman in command of a “mega” cruise ship, which happened in 2015 but listen to her story about how she applied to work in the bar onboard when she first tried out to be a seafarer as she didn’t get hired otherwise. 19 years later she is the Captain of the ship and today she is in command of 1,200+ people onboard her cruise ship.Continue Reading …

Joanne Kelleher, Corporate Communications Advisor at Jumbo

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Time to Rock the Boat? Leadership in the maritime industry – what dominates, what is desired?

Joanne Kelleher studied at the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers and in her Master’s degree study she asked 37 Maritime Professionals what they want from their industry leaders and got some interesting results. Joanne shared her insights in an article on LinkedIn, which I found very interesting, so I decided to try and meet Joanne for an interview and she agreed and that is what we speak about in this episode, the 104th. Continue Reading …

Harald Huso, CEO and Founder of Huso

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Meet Harald Huso, a developer of new media with a background of twenty years in Norwegian media, advertising, and new media. He even started a maritime tv channel some ten years ago, unfortunately, the financial crisis made it impossible to continue with that, but Harald has the experience and the knowledge about how to use digital media for branding and communication.Continue Reading …

Lindsay Malen, Director of Business Development, Future Care Inc.

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Meet Lindsay Malen, Director of Business Development, Future Care Inc. a young woman who entered the maritime industry as a first response call line operator, engaging with Captains and Chief Engineers, who needed telemedical advice and got to understand the industry that she knew nothing about, and is now the business develop director of the same company.Continue Reading …

Alisdair Pettigrew, Managing Director and Co-Founder of BLUE Communications

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Alisdair Pettigrew has 15 years experience of working in the markets where marine, energy and environment meet. He is co-founder of BLUE, a communications’ consultancy, whose mission is to bring new strategic intelligence to reputation management in industries that must alter perceptions of their economic and social value. He came to communications from a successful decade in journalism and as publisher with Informa and Petromedia.Continue Reading …

Per Erling Evensen, former Marketing Manager, Destination Gotland

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Per Erling Evensen just retired from the duty as Marketing Manager at Destination Gotland and has left for an around the world sailing tour for the coming years. Prior to him leaving, he took the time for a chat about how the concept of Destination Gotland was developed and what that has meant to the people of Gotland.Continue Reading …

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