Terminal operator GCT names new president and CEO

Global Container Terminals, which operates facilities in the ports of New York/New Jersey and Vancouver, Canada, appointed Doron Grosman president and chief executive officer, replacing Stephen Edwards, who served in the position since September 2012.    Vancouver, British Columbia-based privately owned terminal operator GCT Global Container Terminals Inc. (GCT) has appointed Doron Grosman as president and chief executive officer, effective immediately, the company said.
   With over 30 years of leadership experience, Grosman has experience in a variety of C-suite roles at global Fortune 1000 companies as well as middle market private equity owned companies.
   Most recently, he was an operating partner at New York-based private equity firm Court Square Capital Partners from 2010 until 2017.
   Grosman has replaced Stephen Edwards as president and CEO of GCT, who served in the position since September 2012.
   From 2006 to 2010, Edwards spent four years as president and CEO of Ports America, and from early 2005 to mid-2006, he was chief operating officer for P&O Ports North America.
   GCT operates four marine container terminals, including GCT New York in New York Harbor; GCT Bayonne in the Upper New York Bay in New Jersey; and GCT Deltaport and GCT Vanterm at the Port of Vancouver, British Columbia.
   The terminal operator has been owned by Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan since 2007, when it was purchased from Orient Overseas International Ltd. (OOIL) for $2.4 billion.