Admiral J. Paul Reason, U.S. Navy (Ret.) Named to Join Todd Shipyards Corporation Board of Directors.SEATTLE -- Todd Shipyards Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :TOD) ("Todd" or the "Company") announced that Admiral J. Paul Reason, U.S. Navy (Ret.) has been named to join the Board of Directors of the Company as a replacement for Admiral David E. Jeremiah
Admiral David Elmer Jeremiah, USN (Retired), (born February 25, 1934) is a former United States Navy officer, who served as Vice Chairman and also Acting , U.S. Navy (Ret.), who is retiring from the Board having reached mandatory retirement age. Admiral Reason is nominated to be elected to the Board of Directors at the Company's annual meeting of shareholders in August. Admiral Reason is a former Commander in Chief of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet and Naval Aide to the President of the United States The head of the Executive Branch, one of the three branches of the federal government. The U.S. Constitution sets relatively strict requirements about who may serve as president and for how long. and currently serves on the Board of Directors of two Fortune 500 companies, Amgen, Inc., and Norfolk Southern Corporation. Since his retirement from the Navy in 1999, Admiral Reason has held several top corporate leadership positions, including President and COO and Vice Chairman of Metro Machine Corporation, a company that conducted all manner of ship repair projects from complex overhaul of naval ships to dry-docking repairs in Virginia and Pennsylvania. Admiral Reason spent more than 34 years in the U.S. Navy, rising from Ensign to the pinnacle of leadership as a four star Admiral. His many assignments in the Navy included service as Commander of Naval Base Seattle in 1986-1988. Admiral Reason has also served on the Board of Directors of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. and is a member of the Naval Studies Board of the National Academy of Sciences. He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy with a master's degree in computer systems management. Admiral Jeremiah is a former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff The position of Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was created by the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986. The Vice Chairman is a four-star general or admiral and by law the second highest ranking member of the U.S. Armed Forces (after the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff). and Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and has been on the Todd Board of Directors since 2003. Todd performs repair and maintenance work on commercial and federal government vessels and provides new construction and industrial fabrication fabrication (fab´rikā´sh  n),n the construction or making of a restoration. services for a wide variety of customers. Its customers include the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Coast Guard, NOAA NOAA abbr. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Noun 1. NOAA - an agency in the Department of Commerce that maps the oceans and conserves their living resources; predicts changes to the earth's environment; , the Washington State Ferry system, the Alaska Marine Highway The Alaska Marine Highway or the Alaska Marine Highway System (AMHS) is a ferry service operated by the government of the U.S. state of Alaska. The Alaska Marine Highway System operates along the southcentral coast of the state, the eastern Aleutian islands and the System, and various other commercial and governmental customers. Todd has operated a shipyard in Seattle since 1916. |
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