2022 Look Ahead
2021 was TMB’s most successful year! Everyone’s day to day work was needed to reach these successes. Thank you! I am very humbled by the responsibilities the TMB Board of Directors has entrusted in me as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) beginning 1 January. The legacies of Pat and Bobby Bennett, Tom Dority, and every TMB employee owner and what they built at TMB will guide me through 2022.
I am optimistic about 2022 as we add more seasoned, experienced professionals to our senior management team. These people are needed so we may develop more robust and capable muscles to take on our non- Small Business Set Aside (SBSA) competitors. Our highest priority in 2022 is transitioning TMB from being a company able to bid and win SBSA contracts to one competing for non-SBSA contracts against large businesses. We are well positioned for this transition given a very healthy backlog of current contract work. The addition of Ned Sheedy as our Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Tom Ryan and Richard Parker as our two new Division General Managers (DGMs) adds 73 years of Professional Support Service experience directly related to our marketplace. Ned and Tom bring to us a combined 47 years of large business experience leading, managing, and bidding and winning work for companies that we will be competing against in a couple of years. Richard knows TMB and our customers inside and out and will be leaned upon heavily to help Ned and Tom quickly come up to speed and take on their new responsibilities. Tom will be our Warfare Systems Programs DGM with responsibility for our IWS BFM, IWS 4.0 ESS, NATO Sea Sparrow, and SEA 05 support. Richard will be our Ships Programs DGM with responsibility for all other support engagements which largely center on supporting NAVSEA Shipbuilding Program Offices. We’re lucky to have assembled such a talented group of professionals. Besides adding outstanding depth and talent to our senior management team who will take on and own our business and proposal development efforts, we will require great assistance from our Program Managers and other Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) throughout the company. We have some very important work planned for 2022. I very much look forward to tackling it with Ned, Richard and Tom.
We will continue to ensure that our employees, customers, and industry partners are provided outstanding support via safe, effective, and efficient facilities and procedures. As we continue to support our Nation’s Sailors and Marines via the support we provide our Government clients, we will make sure that we do it in a manner that protects all those that enter our facilities. A safe working environment is everyone’s responsibility and we will adjust our operating procedures as necessary to pace the COVID threat and adhere to our contractual requirements. We will do this while maintaining TMB’s reputation of being a company whose employees are committed to providing excellent services to all our Government clients, industry partners, and internal customers across TMB.
As we integrate additional senior leadership into TMB, we are also transitioning our contract financial management structure and approach. This will be achieved by having the DGMs responsible for the complete management of their contract and project “financials.” Our outstanding Project Controllers will be reporting to the DGMs which will provide the DGMs with the personnel resources and expertise needed to manage our contracts and projects to meet DGM assigned 2022 financial goals associated with revenue, direct labor costs and profit. Doing this allows us to better manage contract and project financial performance that in the end is of greatest importance to us as an Employee-Owned company whose Share Holder Value comes from the company’s annual business financial “numbers.”
Finally, 2022 is a historic year for TMB. In July, we will celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Bobby and Pat Bennett’s founding of TMB. We have a yearlong schedule of events and activities dedicated to celebrating this milestone. Our anniversary programs will re-establish a common knowledge of where we came from, who we are and pay tribute to those who have built such a successful company. I very much look forward to using our 25th Anniversary year-long plan to re-establish a TMB sense of camaraderie and collective understanding of our value and worth of ourselves and the Sailors and Marines whose National Security mission we so fervently work every day to support.
I’ve got huge shoes to fill in 2022. I know we have the talent at TMB to ensure we all continue to succeed. I so much look forward to gathering in person to contribute to and observe our great work and collegiality.
~ Dan Clague
Chief Executive Officer
