RAdm John Nadeau

President and CEO at Nadeau Maritime

Speaker

As President and CEO of Nadeau Maritime, John serves as a senior strategic advisor to owners and operators of U.S. and foreign flag vessels, facilities, ports, and other maritime stakeholders. He uses his extensive experience and technical expertise to help his clients overcome hurdles, solve problems, identify opportunities, and achieve success. An accomplished senior leader and U.S. Coast Guard veteran, he successfully led diverse organizations conducting all aspects of marine safety, maritime security, and environmental compliance. He was entrusted with positions of continuously increasing levels of responsibility, authority and complexity during his 32 years of service. John led 4,500 personnel and was responsible for all Coast Guard operations in a large region spanning 26 U.S. states, including the ports of Houston, New Orleans, Corpus Christi, Port Arthur, Mobile and waterways from the Florida panhandle to the Texas/Mexico border, the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and Outer Continental Shelf, and the Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, and other western rivers. He was the Coast Guard’s Senior Executive for all international and national policy, standards, and programs to promote marine safety and maritime security and he has accumulated deep technical experience in commercial vessel design, compliance inspections, safety management systems, port state control, casualty investigations, navigation safety, port & facility security, and crisis response. He spearheaded development and implementation of national regulations and policy and, as the Head of the United States’ delegation to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Maritime Safety Committee, he advanced the US position on updates to SOLAS & MARPOL instruments and major challenges impacting the global maritime community. He’s testified before Congressional committees to inform national legislation and priorities and led national compliance initiatives, major marine casualty investigations, significant regulatory equivalency determinations, and evaluation and approval of novel approaches to regulatory compliance. In doing so, he has worked closely with many different U.S. and foreign government agencies, classification societies, and other leaders from all segments of the maritime industry. In his current capacity, he leverages his experience and relationships to generate and implement solutions to his clients’ most pressing challenges. Clients include cruise lines, global container shipping and logistics companies, operators of LPG and LNG carriers and tankships, U.S. flag Jones Act operators, and offshore energy production and port facilities. Areas of emphasis often include regulatory compliance strategies, company safety culture assessment and improvement, and Board advisory services.