Mike has extensive experience in both public and private companies in multiple executive and ownership positions. In addition to being a resource for institutional parties studying, operating or investing in shipbuilding, or other related operations. Mike has been on the executive end of both acquiring and selling businesses. For decades, Mike has been in leadership positions with companies servicing the most demanding clients in the world, including the US Navy.
From 2000 until 2022, Mike served as President and CEO of International Marine and Industrial Applicators (“IMIA”), – where he led it to become a powerful provider of critical vessel preservation services to the U.S. Navy (“USN”) and commercial maintenance, repair, and overhaul and new construction markets. With a national footprint, IMIA is a market leader in the surface preservation of hulls, tanks and other critical coated areas on USN submarines, aircraft carriers, surface combatants and auxiliaries as well as commercial vessels.
Under Mike’s leadership and strategic plan, IMIA grew organically and through acquisition into a multi-discipline marine contractor, with a primary focus in the defense sector. Now, under Armada, Inc., this Company has undergone ownership changes, each time advancing the interests of its owners. Today the Company is owned by the investment firms The Carlyle Group and Stellex Capital Management. It was previously owned by JF Lehman & Company.
Mr. Keenan began his career in shipbuilding and ship repair in 1966, working for Newport News Shipbuilding (“NNS”) for 30 years in various capacities, including Hull Outfitting Foreman, Blast and Coat Superintendent, Director of Manufacturing, Director of Commercial Construction, and Plant Manager of Asheville Industries, Inc. (a wholly owned subsidiary of NNS). He subsequently served as President of Tampa Bay Shipbuilding & Repair from 1996 to 1999. Mr. Keenan served in the U.S. Marine Corps, and he earned a Hull Outfitting Apprenticeship degree, while with NNS, a Bachelor of Science degree from Old Dominion University’ and an MBA from William & Mary (‘92).
Mike has extensive experience in both public and private companies in multiple executive and ownership positions. In addition to being a resource for institutional parties studying, operating or investing in shipbuilding, or other related operations. Mike has been on the executive end of both acquiring and selling businesses. For decades, Mike has been in leadership positions with companies servicing the most demanding clients in the world, including the US Navy.
From 2000 until 2022, Mike served as President and CEO of International Marine and Industrial Applicators (“IMIA”), – where he led it to become a powerful provider of critical vessel preservation services to the U.S. Navy (“USN”) and commercial maintenance, repair, and overhaul and new construction markets. With a national footprint, IMIA is a market leader in the surface preservation of hulls, tanks and other critical coated areas on USN submarines, aircraft carriers, surface combatants and auxiliaries as well as commercial vessels.
Under Mike’s leadership and strategic plan, IMIA grew organically and through acquisition into a multi-discipline marine contractor, with a primary focus in the defense sector. Now, under Armada, Inc., this Company has undergone ownership changes, each time advancing the interests of its owners. Today the Company is owned by the investment firms The Carlyle Group and Stellex Capital Management. It was previously owned by JF Lehman & Company.
Mr. Keenan began his career in shipbuilding and ship repair in 1966, working for Newport News Shipbuilding (“NNS”) for 30 years in various capacities, including Hull Outfitting Foreman, Blast and Coat Superintendent, Director of Manufacturing, Director of Commercial Construction, and Plant Manager of Asheville Industries, Inc. (a wholly owned subsidiary of NNS). He subsequently served as President of Tampa Bay Shipbuilding & Repair from 1996 to 1999. Mr. Keenan served in the U.S. Marine Corps, and he earned a Hull Outfitting Apprenticeship degree, while with NNS, a Bachelor of Science degree from Old Dominion University’ and an MBA from William & Mary (‘92).
