Our Team

 

Decades of Relevant Experience

 

Although Bartlett Maritime Corporation is only a few years old, each of our key personnel has decades of highly relevant experience in their fields. In most cases this experience includes both military and civilian key positions related to nuclear powered U.S. Navy ship and submarine design, construction, operation and maintenance.

Original Bartlett Maritime Corporation key personnel each have a years-long working relationship with our Founder; recently added key personnel have common backgrounds and share our commitment to successfully executing our mission in support of the submarine force. In several cases, our key personnel have worked collaboratively on significant relevant projects such as the Virginia Class design project or the turnaround and return to excellence of the once-financially-failed but still-then largest supplier to NAVSEA 08K.

Additional highly-qualified key staff, each with the appropriate experience and background, have been identified and are ready to join Bartlett Maritime Corporation as The Bartlett Maritime Plan™ is implemented.

 

CAPT Edward L. Bartlett, Jr., USMM
Founder, Chairman CEO
Ed Bartlett | LinkedIn

  • Cold War Submarine Veteran on (3) SSNs and (1) Submarine Tender; Nuclear Power School Instructor

  • First President, DRS Power Systems

  • Engineering Manager, Electric Boat – Virginia & Seawolf Class Designs

CAPT David McCall, USN (Ret)
President & COO

  • Former Director of Submarine Test and of Waterfront and Offsite Operations & Non-Nuclear Test at General Dynamics Electric Boat

  • Former Commander, Submarine Squadron 1, Former Commanding Officer, USS Providence (SSN 719) & USS Seawolf (SSN 21)

  • As the first Seawolf Class Commanding Officer, led the lead ship through construction testing, sea trials, commissioning and initial operations

Admiral Frank L. Bowman, USN (Ret)
Senior Advisory Board Member

  • Former Director, Naval Reactors Program

  • Cold War SSN and Submarine Tender Commands

  • Board of Directors, Morgan Stanley Mutual Funds; Retired Board Member BP

Mr. John W. (Bill) Shirley
Senior Advisory Board Member

  • Retired from Naval Reactors as 08E Section Head –Program Manager for Virginia Class and Seawolf Class

  • Member, JF Lehman & Company Operating Executive Board

Ms. Karen Henneberger
Senior Advisory Board Member

· Retired from Naval Reactors as Section Head Responsible for new ship designs

· Led design for GERALD R FORD Class CVN and COLUMBIA Class SSBN Propulsion Plants

· Chief Executive Officer, Seven Rules Consulting, LLC

Mr. Richard R. Burkhart,
Senior Advisory Board Member

  • Metals and Capital Goods Market Entrepreneur

  • Expertise in all forms of metals processing – from steel mills to all types of foundries, forges and other processes including additive manufacturing (i.e. 3-D Printing)

  • Expertise in the northern Ohio skilled trades labor market

Mr. Bob Hogue
Senior Advisory Board Member

  • Chief Executive Officer, In-Depth Engineering, a small business provider of combat systems solutions, development, integration and test services, and waterfront support to the United States Navy

  • Cold War Submarine Veteran on (2) SSNs

  • Member, Naval Submarine League Board of Directors

Peter Stamatopoulos USN(Ret)
Senior Advisory Board Member

  • Navy's 49th Chief of Supply Corps and Commander of Naval Supply Systems Command

  • Led Navy's global end-to-end supply chain strategy

  • More than 35 years of experience in Navy Supply Corps, deploying in submarines, aircraft carriers and other operational assignments

Mr. Renold D. Thompson, Jr.,
Senior Advisory Board Member
Chief Financial Officer, American Naval Shipyard, LLC

  • More than three decades of capital markets experience in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Cleveland

  • Long term capital markets focus in the areas of mining, manufacturing and energy – all capital intense enterprises which have financial similarities to our proposed facilities and business

  • More than a decade of experience as an entrepreneur in the aerospace and defense market

 
 

Mr. Stuart S. Dye, Esq.
General Counsel Emeritus
Stuart S. Dye, Esq. | LinkedIn

  • Retired Partner, Holland & Knight LLP

  • More than 50 years of Maritime & Government Affairs Practice in Washington, D.C.

  • Cold War Naval Officer - SECNAV Deep Submergence Systems Review Group

William J. Cassidy, Jr., Esq.
General Counsel

  • Former DASN (Conversion & Repair)

  • Selected by NASA to lead team to review installations nationwide to support future NASA missions.

  • Former Partner, Hogan& Hartson

  • Served as Asst U.S. Attorney in D.C and as line officer in U.S. Navy

Theodore J. Dalheim, Jr., J.D.
Chief Financial Officer

  • More than 25 years of financial management experience in the Naval Nuclear Power Program industrial base; former member Ohio State Bar Association

  • Former Vice President, Finance, BWX Technologies, Inc. and former Director, Centrus Energy, Inc.

  • Former Chief Financial Officer, Marine Mechanical Corporation (acquired by BWX Technologies)

CAPT Frank A. Simei, Jr., USN (Ret)
Executive Vice President, Operations

  • Retired from NAVSEA, formerly PMS 312 and Engineer Officer on a CVN

  • Former Program Director, Arctic Offshore Patrol Ship, Irving Shipbuilding, Halifax, N.S.; starting up a newly modernized shipyard

Ms. Melanie D. Lewis, SPHR
Chief Human Resources Officer

  • Senior Human Resources Executive with International Experience

  • As HR Manager at Eaton Navy Controls, worked with CAPT Bartlett to turn around a failed key supplier to the Naval Reactors Program

  • Cold War Military Officer

RDML Charles W. Brown, USN(Ret),
Executive Vice President, Strategic Communications

Charles Brown, APR M | LinkedIn

  • Former Navy Chief of Information (CHINFO)

  • First flag officer Accredited in Public Relations + Military Communication

  • Former special assistant (public affairs) to CNO and PAO for Pacific Fleet

RDML Robert E. Frick, USN (Ret)
Vice President, Planning; Board of Directors

  • Former SEA 92 & PEO Submarines

  • Delivered Seawolf Class and Established Virginia Class Teaming Program

  • Former Commanding Officer, USS Birmingham (SSN 695); Completed 4 Major Submarine Overhauls as Ships Force

Mr. John Alden, Jr., PE
Vice President, Engineering

  • Retired Engineering Manager, General Dynamics Electric Boat

  • Virginia and Ohio Class Design Projects

  • Operates Alden & Associates, LLC, providing shipyard-related technical services

CDR Robert A. Rankin, CEC, USN(Ret)

Vice President, Facilities

  • Experienced in the US Navy Civil Engineering Corps

  • Qualified Seabee Combat Warfare Officer with combat service in Iraq

  • More than 25 years industry experience, recently managing a nationwide portfolio of 28 locations with more that 14 million square feet of space

MMCM (SW) Robert Elwood
Planning Manager

  • Plankowner first 3 Nimitz Class Aircraft Carriers

  • First enlisted Propulsion Plant Watch Officer in the US Navy

  • Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Reactor Officer on 3 CVNs

Ms. Melissa Booth
Digital Communications Manager

  • 5 years as a communication specialist for companies & nonprofits

  • Graduated from Waynesburg University with a BA in International Cultural Studies, History, and Spanish

 

Our Team Also Includes

  • A Vice President, Programs with decades of experience in multiple shipyards building US Navy vessels, leading many complex, technically challenging programs.

  • A Vice President, Facilities who is a retired US Navy Civil Engineering Corps officer and extensive commercial experience developing and managing a wide variety of complex facility projects.

  • Our team has a broad, extensive network of contacts with key individuals with appropriate background and experience for this project.