Business & Professional Services

• Serves as executive director of the Marine Exchange of the San Francisco Bay Region, a nonprofit membership organization that was founded in 1849 and is the second oldest corporation in California.
• Member of the first class of women to attend a service academy in 1972 and the first woman to command a United States commercial vessel.
• Served as general manager of marine operations at Matson Navigation Co. where her responsibilities included managing the safe and efficient operation of the 14 vessels owned or operated by Matson in the Pacific Basin trades.
• During her employment at Matson, she was instrumental in creating the "Zero Garbage Discharge Program" designed to avoid the overboard discharge of any solid waste into the ocean. This was the first of its kind in the world and one that significantly exceeded all government regulations.

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Notable CSU Graduates in Business & Professional Services

Mike Abary	Robert Bouttier	Kerrick W. Bubb	Sean Callahan
Dale Carlsen	JoAnn Copperud	Gary Cushing	Erik Groset
Scott Hanson	Erica Hiller Harrop	Bill Imada	Capt. Lynn D. Korwatch
Andrew Ly	Louis P. Miramontes	Tara-Nicholle Nelson	Charles Noski
Melissa Poole	Terrence J. Roberts	Elsa A. Romero	Ravi Sawhney
Eddie Scher	Victor Stenger Tanon	Jean M. Stephens	John Strisower
Bob Teague	Larry Twersky	Milton G. Valera	Mahvash Yazdi