Ingalls prez to address trade show

PASCAGOULA, Miss. - Brian Cuccias, president of Ingalls Shipbuilding, will be the keynote speaker at the 29th annual Jackson County Industrial Trade Show on March 20 at the B.E. “Mac” McGinty Civic Center in Pascagoula. The event will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The show is event is open to those in the business community working in the industrial field. Additionally, Cuccias is executive vice president of Huntington Ingalls Industries, and is responsible for all programs and operations at HII-Pascagoula, including Navy destroyers, amphibious assault and surface combatant programs, and the Coast Guard cutter program. Cuccias earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of South Alabama in Mobile, and attended executive education programs at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. For more information on the industrial trade show, contact the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce at (228) 762-3391 or e-mail to JohnsonL@jcchamber.com. The chamber is located at 720 Krebs Ave. in Pascagoula and via its website at www.jcchamber.com. (Source: Jackson County Chamber of Commerce 03/06/18)