Sean S. Fitzgerald will take over as Chief Executive Officer of Maersk Container Industry (MCI) on 1 January 2018. Maersk’s Transport & Logistics division, has appointed Fitzgerald, who comes to the container industry from the mining equipment business, as its new CEO. “We are very pleased to welcome Sean S. Fitzgerald to lead Maersk Container Industry in its next level of development.” said Soren Toft, Chairman of the MCI Advisory Board.
Fitzgerald has over 20 years of broad expertise across management, manufacturing, product management and marketing. Since 2014, he has acted as President at Joy Global China, which has eight plants in China and in 2016 was acquired by the Japanese manufacturing company Komatsu Mining Corp. Prior to this, he was Regional Vice President of Joy Mining Machinery, responsible for 13 plants in the Americas. He has also held executive positions over the course of almost 10 years at General Electric.