\u201cI wanted Sam to take it on while I am still here to support him. He has the board, the leadership team and the family behind him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sam Hamilton has served on the board since 2019 and is the company\u2019s technical director. <\/p>\n
\u201cHamiltonJet is a family business, and will remain that way,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cBill built this company on resourcefulness, trustworthy engineering, resilience and looking after people. <\/p>\n
\u201cThose values have carried us for more than 80 years, and can be seen in the way people here design, make and back our products every day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sam Hamilton. Photo \/ LinkedIn<\/p>\n
Sam Hamilton was grateful his father was staying on while he learned the new role.<\/p>\n
\u201cI intend to keep building on what he, the generations before him, and everyone working here today have made,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
HamiltonJet remains privately owned, mainly by the Hamilton family, and has remained in New Zealand ownership throughout its history despite interest from overseas.<\/p>\n
Managing director Ben Reed said the transition reflected the long-term thinking that sets the company apart. <\/p>\n
\u201cFour generations of family leadership is rare anywhere in the world,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
HamiltonJet’s 7500sq m factory in Christchurch.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur customers, our distributors and our people value the stability that comes with it. <\/p>\n
\u201cFamily ownership lets us plan in decades, not quarters, and that is exactly how we intend to keep operating.\u201d<\/p>\n
HamiltonJet designs and manufactures waterjets for commercial, defence, rescue and patrol vessels, supported by regional offices in Singapore, Seattle, London and Perth and a global distributor network. <\/p>\n
The company\u2019s mission is \u201cto continually optimise performance, efficiency and safety through innovation\u201d by delivering \u201cthe latest in efficient, robust, high-performance propulsion technology\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI wanted Sam to take it on while I am still here to support him. He has the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[135530,30857,806,16574,138,37462,308886,137986,1656,2109,23540,3232,308885,29163,6288,308884,29888,7240,19635,32739,111,139,69,71616,18460],"class_list":["post-629655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-135530","tag-appoints","tag-as","tag-bill","tag-business","tag-chairman","tag-chairmanship","tag-christchurchheadquartered","tag-company","tag-family","tag-founded","tag-fourth","tag-fourthgeneration","tag-generation","tag-hamilton","tag-hamiltonjet","tag-handed","tag-lead","tag-marine","tag-marking","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-propulsion","tag-sam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}