OCTOBER 2018 • FOGHORN 37 MEMBERNEWS Trusted to deliver excellence rolls-royce.com Kamewa Waterjets from Rolls-Royce Manoeuvrability and Efficiency Unchallenged Highly Functional, Galley and Foodservice Environments New Builds, Remodels and Retrofits Galley Design and Sales 22125 17th Ave SE Suite F-113 Bothell,WA 98021 p: 425.881.1010 www.galleydesignandsales.com G•D•S Ron Wille Joins All American Marine All American Marine President Matt Mullett recently announced that Ron Wille has joined the Bellingham, WA, shipbuilder as business development manager. Wille has 25 years of maritime industry experience. Before joining AAM, he spent 15 years at Kenai Fjords Tours in Seward, AK as operations manager and general manager. “We are pleased to bring such an outstanding person with an ‘owners’ perspective’ to our company,” said Mullett.” Wille joins recent hire Bronson Lamb, marketing manager, at All American Marine. n the US,” said Kenneth Svendsen, CEO of Entertainment Cruises. “Both companies share a commitment to ex- cellence and are deeply rooted in the guest experience, and together they will be better able to achieve their combined vision in the Canadian market.” Recognized as a large hospital- ity cruise operator, Mariposa Cruises has served Toronto’s city’s waterfront and Lake Ontario with dining cruises, sightseeing and private charters since 1987. Given its longstanding repu- tation, the business will continue to operate under the Mariposa Cruises brand and will remain headquartered at its home base in the heart of the Toronto Harbourfront at the Queen’s Quay Terminal Building. Kenneth Svendsen will lead the newly merged company. Mariposa Cruises President and CEO Jim Nicholson has stepped down and Cindi Vanden Heuvel is the Vice President/General Manager. With 128 full-time and seasonal employees joining Entertainment Cruises, the company intends to maximize benefits for both operations and leverage the significant expertise across the whole business. Entertainment Cruises operates a portfolio of seven distinctive cruise brands in Alexandria VA, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, National Harbor, Norfolk VA, Philadelphia, New York, Weehawken NJ and the wider Washington D.C. area. In 2016, the company acquired Virginia-based Potomac Riverboat Co., and has since added four new high-speed, low wake, environmentally friendly water taxis to service the DC metro area. Entertainment Cruises is part of the PPC Partners group of companies. n