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The Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners oversee the management and operation of the Port of Los Angeles. Harbor commissioners are appointed by the Mayor of Los Angeles and confirmed by the Los Angeles City Council. They serve five-year terms.

Port of Los Angeles Senior Executives.

Jaime L. Lee was appointed to the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners by Mayor Eric Garcetti and confirmed by the Los Angeles City Council on April 13, 2018. She was elected president of the Los Angeles Harbor Commission on April 19, 2018.

Edward R. Renwick became VP of the Los Angeles Harbor Commission on Oct 8, 2019. Renwick served as Senior VP of Strategy and Business Development at the Chongqing Wanli Storage Battery Company in China, and worked as an analyst in the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs.

Eugene Seroka—Executive Director if the Port of Los Angeles—lived in China during the 2002-2004 SARS epidemic.
In March 2020, Mayor Garcetti named Seroka the Chief Logistics Officer for the City of Los Angeles, while concurrently serving as the Port’s Executive Director.

The executive director of the port of Los Angeles lived in China and held several key positions in China.

David Libatique is Deputy Executive Director of Stakeholder Engagement for the Port of Los Angeles, he oversees and manages all comms w/

•org labor
•beneficial cargo owners
•terminal operators
•int’l customers
•shipping/cruise lines
•railroads
•trucking industry
•media

Libatique has extensive experience in economic research, including working as a Research Analyst at the WHO in Geneva, Switzerland.

Janna Sidley serves as General Counsel overseeing all litigation involving the Port of LA.

Sidley supervises attorneys who provide general legal advice to the:
• Board of Harbor Commissioners
• Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority
•Intermodal Container Transfer Facility.

The Harbor Division attorneys draft contracts, review projects and advise the Harbor Commission and Port senior management on:

• property management
• marketing
• international trade
• maritime, fishing, environmental, and railroad operating matters.

She has worked at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., Department of the Interior, and The White House. 

Appointed by Governor Jerry Brown in 2016 and reappointed by Governor Gavin Newsom in 2020.

Marla Bleavins is Deputy Executive Director, Finance and Administration 
Chief Financial Officer.

Second-in-command at the Port of Los Angeles.

Thomas E. Gazsi is the deputy executive director, chief of public safety and emergency management for the Port of Los Angeles, the busiest container port in North America.

He’s also been active in supporting a number of nonprofit endeavors and has served on a variety of Boards.

Executive Director of The Port of Los Angeles, EUGENE SEROKA, WORK
EXPERIENCE CONTINUED:

APL (CHINA) Co, LTD, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China
NPRC Director, Sales and Marketing.

Developed and managed a $500 million international sales region in North and Central China.

Closed Session - Port of Los Angeles Permit 999 with CHINA Shipping Holding Company portoflosangeles.org/commission/age…

kentico.portoflosangeles.org/getmedia/b54c5…

kentico.portoflosangeles.org/getmedia/ea7f9…

China Shipping adopted 52 mitigation measures and lease measures in 2008 alone, just for the Port of Los Angeles.

2007-2045 Port of Los Angeles and China Shipping kentico.portoflosangeles.org/getmedia/c9c2d…

FRIENDSHIP PORT AGREEMENTS

— Guangzhou Port, People's Republic of China
— Shanghai Port Authority, People’s Republic of China 
— Port of Dalian, People's Republic of China

portoflosangeles.org/about/history/…

In 2003 the Port of Los Angeles committed $50 million over five years to mitigate a China Shipping terminal project.

“China Shipping appreciates the fact that the Port of L.A. is helping to promote our expansion in Los Angeles,” says Lisa Wang, a spokesperson for China Shipping. 

portoflosangeles.org/references/new…

North America’s leading seaport by container volume and cargo value, the Port of Los Angeles, facilitated $276 billion in trade during 2019.

2021 Port of Los Angeles Container Statistics portoflosangeles.org/business/stati…

BEIJING – July 10, 2014 – The Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Shanghai signed a formal agreement to exchange information, technical expertise and best practices to expand use of shore power at the Port of Shanghai.

That signing ceremony concluded the sixth meeting of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue co-chaired by then U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, China’s Vice Premier Wang Yang and State Councilor Yang Jiechi.

CAPA - California Association of Port Authorities calsta.ca.gov/-/media/calsta…

• Gene Seroka - President
-> Danny Wan - Vice President
-> Wei Chi - Treasurer
• Martha Miller - Executive Director

The China Investment Monitor, shows Chinese direct investment in the US by year, industry, sector, deal type, and government ownership. us-china-investment.org

Executive Director of Stakeholder Engagement for the Port of Los Angeles, David John Libatique talks about how valuable (heavy emphasis) collecting data is IRT ports/supply chain.

Executive Director of the Port of Los Angeles, Gene Seroka, was asked what keeps him up at night - this was his answer. labusinessjournal.com/news/2020/jun/…

2014: In China, Gene Seroka picked up Mandarin. “I have been out of practice for a little while,” he said, “but I hope to brush up on that in the not-too-distant future.” … google.com/amp/s/www.lati…

Seroka grew up in Slidell, La. His parents worked in the airline industry, his father in marketing for American Airlines and his mother as a flight attendant.

His first overseas posting was in China from 1999-2003, before LA Mayor Garcetti tapped him to lead the L.A. port.

In 2014 Gene’s goals were to “maintain the port’s premier position in the US, while ɢʀᴏᴡɪɴɢ ᴄᴀʀɢᴏ ᴛʀᴀꜰꜰɪᴄ.

#Seroka said other goals are to ꜰɪx ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴏɴɢᴇꜱᴛɪᴏɴ ᴄᴜʀʀᴇɴᴛʟʏ ᴘʟᴀɢᴜɪɴɢ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴏᴍᴘʟᴇx and ready the port to handle ever-larger container ships.