Chairman
John Dane III, Ph.D. is Chairman of the Board of Southampton Development Company and a Director of TECHNE Properties, LLC. He advises TECHNE on corporate strategy, finance, and construction, and operational logistics.
Dr. Dane is Chairman of United States Marine, Inc. and U.S. Shipbuilding International based in Gulfport, Mississippi with two shipyards in operation, building offshore supply vessels, patrol craft, tug boats, oil skimmers, and inland oil tank barges. Additionally, Dr. Dane is past President and CEO of Trinity Yachts, LLC, which was one of the world’s leading builders of mega-yachts. Dr. Dane and his company had extensive experience in designing, constructing, and marketing large ocean-going ships to clients in the Middle East. Dr. Dane is past president and CEO of Halter Marine where he managed multiple shipyards and over 11,000 employees.
Dr. Dane is a member of the Navy League, the Society of Naval Architects, the World President‘s Organization, and the Advisory Counsel of the American Bureau of Shipping. He recently retired from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, the Tulane University‘s Presidents’ Counsel, the advisory board to the Tulane School of Engineering and as a member of the Ocean Research Advisory Panel for the National Oceanographic Partnership Program. Dr. Dane was selected as the Propeller Club-Port of New Orleans “Maritime Man of the Year” for 1998 and Tulane University Engineering School’s “Outstanding Alumni of the Year” for 2004.
Dr. Dane holds a B.S. and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Tulane University in New Orleans, where he was a three-time All-American Sailor, Intercollegiate Sailor of the Year in 1968 and was inducted into the Tulane Athletic Hall of Fame. Dr. Dane has also won numerous National and International sailing championships and recently represented the United States in the 2008 China Olympic Games in the Star class sailboat.