Brigham McCown

Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. said Dec. 23 2019 that Brigham A. McCown will become the next president of the company in January 2020, a selection announced by the TAPS Owners Committee. McCown is the second company president hired as an Alyeska employee following Vice Admiral Thomas Barrett, USCG (Ret.) who joined the company in January 2011 and is retiring. Alyeska said McCown has more than three decades of executive management, legal and operational experience in the infrastructure and transportation industries. He is currently chairman and CEO of Nouveau Consulting where he advises on matters pertaining to federal security and safety regulations. He is also chairman and founder of the Alliance for Innovation and Infrastructure, a nonpartisan think tank leveraging innovation to improve infrastructure safety. McCown served in the U.S. Department of Transportation in direct reporting positions to both Democratic and Republican secretaries of Transportation, including as first deputy administrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. He retired from the U.S. Navy in 2013 after 25 years of combined active and reserve service as a naval officer and naval aviator.