G. KIRK GREINER, Jr.

 

Kirk was born near Philadelphia and moved to Westport, Connecticut when he was 13. He worked at marinas and on yachts while in high school. Following high school graduation, he attended the U. S. Coast Guard Academy.

 

During his career in the Coast Guard, he spent five years at sea first as a deck officer and then as an engineer on steam vessels. Twenty years of his career were in the commercial vessel safety field. He retired as a Captain while in command of the U. S. Coast Guard Portland, Oregon Group which had the responsibility in three states for vessel safety, port safety, search and rescue and pollution cleanup. While in the Coast Guard, he obtained a law degree from the University of Puget Sound Law School (now Seattle University Law School) and became a member of the Virginia bar and later the Washington bar.

 

Upon retiring from the Coast Guard after 29 years commissioned service, he formed a company which became the largest marine consultant and expert witness referral company in the world. He has appeared in court in all coastal states many times as an expert witness on accident reconstruction, the most famous of which was the trial of Captain Hazelwood, master of the EXXON VALDEZ.

 

He sold his referral company in 1995 but has continued his consulting and expert witness work as a sole practitioner although he anticipates retiring in 2009-2010.

 

He has been on the Board of Directors, Fort Vancouver Seafarers’ Center, Vancouver, WA., the Board of Directors of Surfside Inn, Ocean Park, WA. (a timeshare), and was the  President of the Board of Directors, The Edmonds Rotary Club Foundation in 2007-2008..

 

He married to his wife, Jackie, January 1st, 2002. He has a son and daughter by a previous marriage.

 

His hobbies are computers, traveling and stock investing.

 

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