Howard H. Hoege III

Howard H. Hoege III has served as the President and CEO of The Mariners’ Museum and Park since 2016. After graduating from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1994, Howard served as an infantry officer and later a JAG officer in the Army. During his service, Howard graduated from U.S. Army’s Ranger School in 1995 and served with the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) in Iraq from 2003-2004. After he left military service in 2008, Howard served as an investigative Counsel on the Senate Armed Services Committee, as an Assistant Dean at the University of Virginia’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, and ultimately founded 3H3 Leadership, a leadership and strategy consulting firm, before joining the Mariners’ Team. He currently serves on a number of civic and not-for-profit boards, including service on the Hampton Roads Workforce Council Board of Directors and as Vice Chair of Greater Peninsula Now.

Howard and his wife, Cinda, have two adult children and reside in Newport News, Virginia. Archer and Anna Hyatt Huntington and Newport News Ship building founded The Mariners’ Museum and Park in 1930. The U.S. Congress later designated The Mariners’ Museum as one of the two maritime museums that comprise America’s National Maritime Museum. Today, the Mariners’ Park is one of the largest privately owned and operated parks that is free and open to the public in the United States. The Mariners’ Museum boasts the largest maritime library and archival collection in the Western Hemisphere, and the Museum’s Batten Conservation Complex is the largest and most advanced conservation lab of any maritime museum in the world