Consul to the US Navy

This is the Web Page for the office of the Consul and Deputy Consul to the US Navy. The purpose of the office is to maintain and strengthen the ties between Whitehaven and the Navy of the United States and to ensure that the terms of the Freedom of the Harbour which was granted to the Navy in 1999 are honoured.
A secondary purpose is to enhance trade links between the Borough of Copeland and the United States of America by using the office of the Consul to assist in networking and the promotion of opportunities in the Borough.

The Consul is Rear Admiral US Navy retired, Steve Morgan and the Deputy Consul is Mr. Rob Romano, former Chairman of the Chamber of Trade for Whitehaven.

Consul Steve Morgan
Steve Morgan is the commercial director for Sellafield and is responsible
for subcontracts valued at more than £1.2 billion as well as the
procurement, legal, communications, sales contract management and
socio-economic programs.  he came to the UK from the BNFL American
subsidiary in 2004 where he was also head of commercial.  steve is a
retired U.S. Navy rear admiral (reserve) specialising in nuclear,
logistics, and acquisition and has been appointed consul for the cumbrian
town of Whitehaven to the U.S. Navy.  as a civilian, he has been chief
financial officer of a shipbuilding company, swiftships, and executive vice
president for united nuclear corporation where he was directly involved in
submarine nuclear fuel fabrication and operation of a U.S. department of
energy production reactor at Hanford.  he finished his unc career as
president of unc reclamation, a spin-off environmental restoration company.
in addition to unc and swiftships, he was worked with westinghouse and
fluor helping them reengineer their organisations and install innovative
contract models and with the U.S. department of energy as a director within
the acquisition directorate.  his last military active duty assignment was
as executive director for logistics management for the U.S. Department of
Defense at the defense logistics agency.  he holds an mba degree from
George Washington university in contract and project management.

Deputy Consul, Rob Romano
Rob Romano

London born, Rob left to join the Royal Air Force spending his last two and a half years in Singapore. After leaving the RAF he went into civil aviation and spent a few years in Libya, north africa, helping to service air transport for the oil exploration industries. Returning to england in mid-1960 he married whitehaven girl, Valerie Watson resulting in two sons, stephen and graeme.  eight years at luton airport with one of the largest charter airlines - court line aviation - helping to fly millions of holiday makers all over the world, visiting many foreign parts as part of the job. He came to live and work in Whitehaven as a travel agent manager in 1974. Over the intervening years Rob was an active member and president of the whitehaven & district chamber of trade and commerce. As president he became involved with the Whitehaven Maritime festival and becoming, privately, a founder director of the festival in 1998. He was BBC radio cumbria's ‘travel consultant' for a number of years.

Rob retired in 2000 but got involved, part time, with the local tourist attraction, the rum story.

Although retired as a festival director, he is still a part time volunteer, helping out when needed and talent spotting for future festivals. In 2002  became the whitehaven town crier.

In 2005 Rob became the leader of the whitehaven time gun crew.

He believes strongly that when you live and work in a place you should try and put something back into the community - hence a reluctance to say no to anyone who comes up with a good idea!