Great Lakes appoints two board members

OAK BROOK - Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corp. announced Lawrence R. Dickerson and D. Michael Steuert have been appointed to the board of director's 2019 director class.

Dickerson has been appointed to the compensation committee, and Steuert has been appointed to the audit committee. With the addition of Dickerson and Steuert, the board will expand to nine members. The board is expected to be reduced to eight members as of the 2017 annual meeting.

Dickerson spent 34 years at Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. (NYSE: DO), a deepwater oil and gas drilling contractor, where he served as President and Chief Executive Officer from 2008 until his retirement in 2014. Prior to his service as President and Chief Executive Officer, Dickerson served as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), during which he helped take the company public, and Chief Operating Officer, during which he gained substantial operating and commercial experience.

Steuert served as senior vice president and CFO of Fluor Corp. a global, publicly traded engineering, procurement, construction, maintenance, and project management company, from 2001 until his retirement in 2012. Prior to his service at Fluor, Steuert served as SVP and CFO of Litton Industries Inc., a defense contractor acquired by Northrop Grumman Corporation in 2001, and as SVP and CFO of GenCorp Inc., now Aerojet Rocketdyne, a technology-based aerospace and defense company, from 1990 to 1999. Mr. Steuert started his career at TRW Inc.

The company also announced board member Peter Deutsch has elected to withdraw his name from consideration for the 2017 slate of nominees. Deutsch is a member of the audit committee and a member of the nominating and corporate governance committee.