Advisory Council

Toni Alexander
Administrator, ss-united-states.com

Thomas Basile
Founder, Empire Solutions

Mark Behan
Founder, Behan Communications

Sean Connaughton
Former US Maritime Administrator

Walter Cronkite IV
Broadcast Associate, CBS News

Bill DiBenedetto
SS United States Preservation Society

H. Richard Dietrich III
The Dietrich American Foundation

Laura Franklin Dunn
Daughter of General Franklin, United States Lines

Jonathan Fanton
FDR Visiting Fellow, Roosevelt House, Hunter College, CUNY

Elizabeth Fletcher
Educator, Author

William A. Fox
Naval Architect and Maritime Historian

Albert Herberger
Former US Maritime Administrator

Noelle Hollander
Daughter of Maritime Historian Frank Braynard

Samuel A. Keesal, Jr.
Keesal, Young & Logan

Leonard Lauder
Chairman, The Estée Lauder Companies, Inc.

Joseph Lombardi
Founder, Ocean Technical Services, LLC

Mark Lupke
Founder, Trident Occidental, LLC

Alex Lyda
Columbia University Medical Center

Rosalyn McPherson
Founder, The ROZ Group, Inc.

Guy C. Maitland
International Registries, Inc.

Greg Mendenhall
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton

Bill Miller
Author, Maritime Historian

John Milligan
Marine Engineer

William Myhre
Partner, K & L Gates

Mike Novak
Principal, Novak Marine Consulting, LLC

Mary Pelzer
Seaport Museum New York

Robert Radler
Film and Television Producer

Colin Veitch
Former CEO, Norwegian Cruise Line