New ISU Secretary General appointed

Mark Hoddinott will start with ISU in April 2012 and will work closely with Mike Lacey for the rest of the year to ensure a smooth transition of responsibilities between them before he takes up the position formally in October.

Mark Hoddinott will be General Manager and will combine the role of Secretary General with that of General Manager, which will be vacated this spring on John Noble’s planned retirement. He will be responsible to the President of the ISU and its executive committee for the day to day running of the ISU and its work on relevant issues.

Mark Hoddinott is well known in the shipping sector and has extensive experience of the salvage industry. He started his career at sea and he has a Master Mariner’s Certificate. He joined the UK’s United Towing as a Salvage Officer in 1982 and subsequently has served as Salvage Master, performing a number of notable salvage operations. He later moved into senior management with Howard Smith, then Adsteam, before joining US owned Titan Salvage as its Managing Director, Europe. Mark Hoddinott has also served on the ISU’s Lloyd’s Open Form Sub-Committee since its inception in 2006 and has been the Chairman of that committee for the past three years.