Inside ICI
Commander Kirk Lippold to Open Institute’s Annual Spring Management Meeting
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egistration is now open for the Investment Casting Institute’s annual Spring Management Meeting. The event is scheduled for April 30 - May 3, 2017 at The
Mills House Wyndham Grand Hotel in Charleston, SC. Institute Executive Director Joseph Fritz stated, “Over
the past several years, we have worked very hard to identify keynote speakers for our conferences, and have had some tremendous success with the likes of Dennis Snow, former Disney University executive, Commander Fred Haise, Apollo 13 Lunar Module Pilot, and most recently Keni Thomas, US Army Ranger – Blackhawk Down. At this year’s Spring Management Meeting, we have the good fortune of hearing from renowned leader, Commander Kirk Lippold, who was the Commanding Officer of the USS Cole when the ship came under attack by Al-Qaeda terrorists during a refueling stop in the Yemen port of Aden on October 12, 2000. We are very excited to have Commander Lippold join us, and look forward to hearing his message: Leadership and Accountability When it Matters..”
About Commander Lippold Commander Kirk Lippold, USN (Ret.) was the Commanding Officer of the USS Cole when it came under a suicide terrorist attack by Al-Qaeda in the port of Aden, Yemen. This event is widely recognized as one of the most brazen acts of terrorism by Al-Qaeda prior to September 11, 2001. With this unique and invaluable experience, Commander Lippold has briefed over 6,000 military officers, 2,000 federal and state law enforcement officers, and has given over 300 presentations on this seminal event in the war on terrorism. Lippold’s assignments prior to the USS Cole included
Executive Officer of USS SHILOH, an Aegis-class guided missile cruiser. His department head tour was unique in his assignment to the crew that commissioned USS Arleigh Burke, the Navy’s first Aegis guided missile destroyer where he served as the Operations Officer responsible for the training and combat readiness of a next generation $1 billion warship with a crew of over 300 Sailors. He had two division officer assignments, which included a tour on USS Yorktown, an Aegis class guided missile cruiser. There, he completed a lengthy
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seven and a half month deployment to the Mediterranean, where he participated in the Achille Lauro aircraft seizure, Black Sea Freedom of Navigation operations against the Soviet Union, and Attain III combat operations in the Gulf of Sidra off Libya that followed several Libyan sponsored terrorist attacks in Europe. His initial division officer tour was in USS Fairfax County, a tank landing ship, where he completed a deployment to Beirut, Lebanon, in support of the US Marine Corps and the Multinational Peacekeeping Force when terrorists attacked the American Embassy and severely damaged it. Commander Kirk Lippold is a graduate of the US Naval
Academy, and received his commission in the Navy in 1981. He attended the Navy Postgraduate School from 1987 to 1989 where he received a Master’s of Science in Systems Engineering (Joint Command, Control and Communications). He is a 1994 graduate of the United States Army Command and General Staff College and is also a 2001 graduate of the Joint Forces Staff College. Commander Kirk Lippold’s personal awards include
the Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit (three awards), Meritorious Service Medal (three awards), Combat Action Ribbon, Navy Commendation Medal (two awards), Joint Service Achievement Medal, Navy Achievement Medal (two awards), in addition to various campaign and service ribbons.
Currently, Commander Lippold is the president of Lippold
Strategies, LLC, a consulting firm specializing in executive leadership development, strategic planning and training programs, and crisis management.
Additionally, he serves
as Senior Vice President for military policy and strategic development at the public affairs firm Phillip Stutts & Co. He is the author of Front Burner – Al Qaeda’s Attack on the USS Cole, that recounts the story of Al Qaeda’s bombing of his ship and the continuing ramifications for the war on terror. He serves as a member of the Board of Advisors for Halo Maritime Defense Systems and the National Defense Roundtable. For a complete preliminary agenda of the 2017 Spring Management Meeting, see pg 8.
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