The Long Beach City Council voted Nov. 3 former Long Beach Chief Financial Officer Lori Ann Farrell to the Board of Harbor Commissioners, "which oversees the Port of Long Beach and the staff of the City’s Harbor Department," the port said in a press release.
Teresa Rea, previously acting director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, joined Crowell & Moring as a partner in the Intellectual Property Group and as an international trade consultant, the firm said.
Promotions at the American Association of Airport Executives: Steve Gironda to vice president-finance; Jeff Holman to vice president-information services; Pat Raker to senior vice president-training and technology services; Melissa Sabatine to senior vice president-regulatory affairs; Brad Van Dam to senior vice president-government affairs.
Online freight marketplace uShip hired Dick Metzler, ex-XPO Logistics, as chief marketing officer.
Daniel Pearson, ex-chairman of the International Trade Commission, joined the Cato Institute as a senior fellow in trade policy studies.
Frank Hamons, former Maryland Ports Administration deputy director, has joined Gahagan & Bryant Associates, Inc. of Baltimore.
Raymond Atkins, former Surface Transportation Board general counsel, has joined Sidley Austin LLP in Washington, D.C. as a partner and member of its transportation practice.
The Export-Import Bank of the U.S. named Charles "CJ" Hall, ex-Envirotrade Group, executive vice president and chief risk officer.
Canadian Pacific names Bart Demosky, ex-Suncor Energy, executive vice-president and chief financial officer, effective Dec. 28.
Newly elected officers of the International Maritime Organization Assembly, elected at the meeting that continues until Dec. 4 at IMO headquarters: Assembly President Ünal Çeviköz, Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey to the United Kingdom; First Vice-President Dalhatu Tafida, High Commissioner for the Federal Republic of Nigeria in the U.K.; Second Vice-President Ana Irene Delgado, Ambassador of the Republic of Panama to the U.K.