Mr. Mackey served as Chair of the T&R Steering Committee in the 1990s and also chaired the Nominating Committee and the international Activities Committee. He was instrumental in establishing the World Maritime Technology Conference, was Chairman of WMTC 2003, hosted by SNAME in San Francisco, was the first Chairman of the World Maritime Technology Congress, and has been the SNAME representative to the Congress since 2003.
Mackey has presented many technical papers on Ballast Water Management at various symposia during the past 15 years and led the BW Management Panel Session at WMTC 2015. He was Chairman of the Control Committee and author of the Hull Machinery Chapter of the SNAME publication, "Marine Engineering" in 1992 and is Chair of the Control Committee of its revision. He has been active in the marine business for the past 50 years and has been with Hyde since it was established in Cleveland, Ohio in 1969.