Dr. Kevin Lopes

Kevin’s portfolio at ThayerMahan includes mission planning, logistics, testing, and staffing and analysis of our marine operations.

During his successful 27-year career in the U.S. Coast Guard, Kevin held numerous operational, organizational and governance positions, including: command of a USCG cutter; Chief of Planning at Sector New Orleans; Chief of Response at Sector New Orleans; Incident Commander for oil spill and HAZMAT response; Operations Section Chief for the DM-932 barge spill response; and Finance Section Chief for the Deepwater Horizon unified response. His wide-ranging responsibilities have included: port/waterway/coastal security, maritime commerce, incident response, search and rescue, marine environmental response, drug interdiction, law enforcement, living marine resources enforcement, migrant interdiction, defense readiness and hurricane response.

As a Certified Defense Financial Manager, Kevin oversaw the Coast Guard’s enterprise financial policy as a time when the Department of Homeland Security earned its first clean audit opinion. In the academic realm, he is also a Professor of Management and has lectured on leadership, organizational development, change management, consulting, negotiations and conflict management.

Kevin, his wife Wendy and son Ethan live in Mystic, Connecticut.

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