Tiara Yachts’ Michelle Seneca Named a 2024 “Women Making Waves” Recipient by Boating Industry
HOLLAND, Mich., June 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tiara Yachts, a family-owned manufacturer of American-made luxury watercrafts celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2024, today announced that Director of IT, Michelle Seneca, has been selected as a winner of the 2024 Boating Industry’s Women Making Waves award.
As a valued member of the Tiara Yachts team for more than three decades, Michelle began her career as executive assistant to David Slikkers, president and eventual CEO of S2 Yachts. As her reach into the organization grew, she found a passion for technology, continued her college education, received a leadership role within the team’s IT department, and ultimately became the first woman to join the Senior Leadership team.
“When I first came to work at Tiara, I took notes at the Senior Leadership meetings. Today, I’m a member of the Senior Leadership team and I’m able to influence and contribute in a greater way to the success of the company,” said Seneca.
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In her role, Seneca successfully implemented an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, making Tiara Yachts one of the first marine industry manufacturers to integrate automation technologies to boat production lines. In return, Tiara Yachts has increased production efficiencies, empowered marine industry craftsman to focus on the art of the build, and strengthen customer satisfaction.
However, one of the things she’s most passionate about is mentoring other young women to pursue an education in the male-dominated IT field.
As of 2022, women held only 28% of computing and mathematical roles in the US (Zippia). Furthermore, women accounted for only 18% of computer science degrees (Bureau of Labor Statistics) and half of women pursuing tech industry positions drop out by the age of 35 (Accenture). Seneca feels privileged to have grown Tiara Yachts’ IT department with nearly half the team being females.
“Being able to shape and inspire young women in technology and the marine world is really rewarding. I'm grateful to be a part of Tiara’s team and I look forward to witnessing the future of women in the marine industry,” continued Seneca.
The Women Making Waves award honors the women in the industry who have and continue to contribute to its success, propel its growth and lead their individual organizations to success. Tiara Yachts’ Quality Manager Fawn Filley-Myers received the recognition in 2023.
“Michelle’s dedication to Tiara and to uplifting women in the marine industry is truly inspiring,” said Tom Slikkers, CEO and President of Tiara Yachts. “Her efforts and implementations have propelled Tiara’s practices to a new level of performance, streamlining the way we do things without compromising quality, creativity, or craftsmanship. I look forward to watching her continue to grow in her career and to witnessing how she continues to shape the future generation of women in the marine industry.”
The full list of 2024 recipients can be viewed on Boating Industry ’s website and within the latest print issue. To learn more about Tiara Yachts, please visit tiarayachts.com.
About Tiara Yachts
Tiara Yachts, headquartered in Holland, Michigan, is one of the oldest privately held boat manufacturers in the United States and celebrates their 50 th Anniversary in 2024. The Tiara Yachts model line includes inboard vessels from 39 to 60 feet in the Coupe and EX lines. Outboard powered Tiara Yachts models range from 34 to 48 feet in three distinct Series: Luxury Sport (LS), Luxury Crossover (LX), and Luxury Express (LE). For more information, please visit tiarayachts.com.
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Tiara Yachts’ Michelle Seneca Named a 2024 “Women Making Waves” Recipient by Boating Industry
HOLLAND, Mich., June 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Tiara Yachts, a family-owned manufacturer of American-made luxury watercrafts celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2024, today announced that Director of IT, Michelle Seneca, has been selected as a winner of the 2024 Boating Industry’s Women Making Waves award.
As a valued member of the Tiara Yachts team for more than three decades, Michelle began her career as executive assistant to David Slikkers, president and eventual CEO of S2 Yachts. As her reach into the organization grew, she found a passion for technology, continued her college education, received a leadership role within the team’s IT department, and ultimately became the first woman to join the Senior Leadership team.
“When I first came to work at Tiara, I took notes at the Senior Leadership meetings. Today, I’m a member of the Senior Leadership team and I’m able to influence and contribute in a greater way to the success of the company,” said Seneca.
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In her role, Seneca successfully implemented an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, making Tiara Yachts one of the first marine industry manufacturers to integrate automation technologies to boat production lines. In return, Tiara Yachts has increased production efficiencies, empowered marine industry craftsman to focus on the art of the build, and strengthen customer satisfaction.
However, one of the things she’s most passionate about is mentoring other young women to pursue an education in the male-dominated IT field.
As of 2022, women held only 28% of computing and mathematical roles in the US (Zippia). Furthermore, women accounted for only 18% of computer science degrees (Bureau of Labor Statistics) and half of women pursuing tech industry positions drop out by the age of 35 (Accenture). Seneca feels privileged to have grown Tiara Yachts’ IT department with nearly half the team being females.
“Being able to shape and inspire young women in technology and the marine world is really rewarding. I'm grateful to be a part of Tiara’s team and I look forward to witnessing the future of women in the marine industry,” continued Seneca.
The Women Making Waves award honors the women in the industry who have and continue to contribute to its success, propel its growth and lead their individual organizations to success. Tiara Yachts’ Quality Manager Fawn Filley-Myers received the recognition in 2023.
“Michelle’s dedication to Tiara and to uplifting women in the marine industry is truly inspiring,” said Tom Slikkers, CEO and President of Tiara Yachts. “Her efforts and implementations have propelled Tiara’s practices to a new level of performance, streamlining the way we do things without compromising quality, creativity, or craftsmanship. I look forward to watching her continue to grow in her career and to witnessing how she continues to shape the future generation of women in the marine industry.”
The full list of 2024 recipients can be viewed on Boating Industry ’s website and within the latest print issue. To learn more about Tiara Yachts, please visit tiarayachts.com.
About Tiara Yachts
Tiara Yachts, headquartered in Holland, Michigan, is one of the oldest privately held boat manufacturers in the United States and celebrates their 50th Anniversary in 2024. The Tiara Yachts model line includes inboard vessels from 39 to 60 feet in the Coupe and EX lines. Outboard powered Tiara Yachts models range from 34 to 48 feet in three distinct Series: Luxury Sport (LS), Luxury Crossover (LX), and Luxury Express (LE). For more information, please visit tiarayachts.com.
Media Contact
Alysa Kirn
586.354.4669
A photo accompanying this announcement is available at https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/1021adee-147a-4da9-b80e-0d3b27a57db7
Seneca is recognized as a trailblazer and one of the most impactful women in the marine industry as a 2024 “Women Making Waves” recipient by Boating Industry.
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Supreme Court rules ban on gun bump stocks is unlawful
WASHINGTON — In a loss for the Biden administration, the Supreme Court ruled Friday that a Trump-era federal ban on bump stocks, gun accessories that allow semiautomatic rifles to fire more quickly, is unlawful.
In a 6-3 ruling on ideological lines , with the court's conservatives in the majority, the court held that an almost 100-year-old law aimed at banning machine guns cannot legitimately be interpreted to include bump stocks.
The Trump administration imposed the prohibition after the Las Vegas mass shooting in 2017, in which Stephen Paddock used bump stock-equipped firearms to open fire on a country music festival, initially killing 58 people. Then-President Donald Trump personally called for the accessory to be banned.
Writing for the majority, Justice Clarence Thomas said that a firearm equipped with the accessory does not meet the definition of "machinegun" under federal law.
The ruling prompted a vigorous dissent from liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
"When I see a bird that walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck," she wrote in reference to bump stocks enabling semiautomatic rifles to operate like machine guns. Sotomayor also took the rare step of reading a summary of her dissent in court.
Even with the federal ban out of the picture, bump stocks will still not be readily available nationwide. More than a dozen states have already banned them, according to Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit gun-control group. Congress could also act.
In a statement, President Joe Biden said he had used "every tool in my administration to stamp out gun violence" and vowed to continue to do so.
"We know thoughts and prayers are not enough," Biden said. "I call on Congress to ban bump stocks, pass an assault weapon ban, and take additional action to save lives — send me a bill and I will sign it immediately."
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., echoed the point in a statement, saying "the only way to permanently close this loophole is through legislation."
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Gun control advocates decried the ruling and raised concerns that some of the state law bans could be struck down as well.
"We’ve seen bump stocks cause immense destruction and violence," said Esther Sanchez-Gomez, litigation director at Giffords Law Center. "The majority of justices today sided with the gun lobby instead of the safety of the American people. This is a shameful decision."
Although Trump imposed the ban, a spokeswoman for his campaign expressed no disappointment at the decision, saying the ruling "should be respected" and touting his support for gun rights.
The National Rifle Association, a leading gun rights group, at the time indicated it would also support a ban, although it subsequently backtracked. The group welcomed Friday's ruling, saying on X that the court had "properly restrained executive branch agencies to their role of enforcing, and not making, the law."
Sotomayor cited the Las Vegas shooting in her dissent.
"All he had to do was pull the trigger and press the gun forward. The bump stock did the rest," she wrote.
The ruling, she added, "hamstrings the government's efforts to keep machineguns from gunmen like the Las Vegas shooter."
In a concurring opinion, conservative Justice Samuel Alito, conceded that in practical terms, a weapon equipped with a bump stock is very similar to a machine gun and said Congress could act to ban the accessory.
The "horrible shooting spree" in Las Vegas showed how "a semiautomatic rifle equipped with a bump stock can have the same lethal effect as a machinegun," strengthening the case for legislative action, he added.
The Supreme Court in 2019 declined to block the regulation. The already conservative court has tilted further to the right since then, with conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a Trump appointee, replacing liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died in 2020.
Conservatives now have a 6-3 majority that has backed gun rights in previous cases.
The National Firearms Act was enacted in 1934 to regulate machine guns in response to Prohibition-era gangster violence.
The lawsuit was brought by Texas-based gun owner Michael Cargill, a licensed dealer who owned two bump stocks before the ban went into effect and later surrendered them to the government.
"Over five years ago I swore I would defend the Constitution of the United States, even if I was the only plaintiff in the case. I did just that," he said in a statement responding to the ruling.
Bump stocks use the recoil energy of a trigger pull to enable the user to fire up to hundreds of rounds with what the federal government calls “a single motion.”
Cargill’s lawyers say it is a difficult skill to master.
Some gun rights advocates, including the National Rifle Association, initially backed then-President Donald Trump’s move to regulate bump stocks after the Las Vegas shooting, but have since lined up in opposition to it.
The case does not implicate the scope of the right to bear arms under the Constitution’s Second Amendment. The challengers argue that the government does not have the authority to ban bump stocks under the 1934 law.
The 1968 Gun Control Act defined “machine gun” to include accessories “for use in converting a weapon” into a machine gun, and the ATF concluded that bump stocks meet that definition.
Much of the legal fight hinged on the definition of machine gun as a weapon that can automatically fire more than one shot “by a single function of the trigger.”
The government argued that the phrase refers to the actions of the shooter, with a single action required to fire multiple shots. Cargill’s lawyers argued that it refers to the action inside the firearm when the trigger is engaged. Because a bump stock still requires the trigger to be engaged for each shot, it is not a machine gun, they argued.
The Supreme Court embraced Cargill's argument, with Thomas writing that a firearm equipped with a bump stock does not become a machine gun because "it cannot fire more than one shot" with a single function of the trigger.
"ATF therefore exceeded its statutory authority by issuing a rule that classifies bump stocks as machineguns," he added.
Lower courts were divided over the issue, with both the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the Cincinnati-based 6th Circuit ruling that the ban was unlawful.
The Biden administration appealed in both cases, while gun rights advocates contested the ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that upheld the ban.
The Supreme Court has backed gun rights in cases directly addressing the scope of the Second Amendment, including the 2022 ruling that found there is a right to carry a handgun outside the home.
But in a case argued in November, the court indicated it might stop short of striking down some long-standing gun laws in a case involving a ban on possessing firearms by people accused of domestic violence.
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Michelle Seneca Named a 2024 “Women Making Waves” Recipient by Boating Industry
Recognized as a trailblazer and one of the most impactful women in the marine industry, Michelle Seneca becomes the second woman at Tiara Yachts recognized on Boating Industry's Women Making Waves list.
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EX 54 Named a Top Product of 2024 by Boating Industry
Tiara Yachts announced today its recently launched EX 54 has been named a 2024 Top Product by Boating Industry. The EX 54 is the third Tiara product to receive this recognition in recent years, joining the 48 LS, recognized in 2021, and the 38 LS, which landed on the marine industry’s top 50 most innovative products list in 2018.
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Tiara Yachts Sees Sales Across Full Range of Inboard and Outboard Models at the Palm Beach International Boat Show
Tiara Yachts, a family-owned manufacturer of American-made luxury watercrafts, reported continued positive sales today following last month’s 2024 Palm Beach International Boat Show (PBIBS). The company sold 19 total units across the full range of its inboard and outboard offerings ranging from 34 to 60 feet.
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Tiara Yachts’ Chris Rumsey Named One of Boating Industry’s 40 Under 40
Tiara Yachts today announced that Chris Rumsey, Composite Engineering Group Leader, has been named one of Boating Industry's 40 Under 40 for 2024.
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Tiara Yachts to Attend the 2024 Palm Beach International Boat Show
Tiara Yachts, family-owned manufacturer of American-made luxury watercrafts, will be at the annual Palm Beach International Boat Show from March 21-24. Models on display at 101 S Flagler Dr., Ramps 7/8 will include the EX 60, EX 54, 48 LE, 48 LS, 43 LS, 38 LS, 34 LS and 34 LX.
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Tiara Yachts Sees Sales Success at the Miami International Boat Show
February 28, 2024 - Tiara Yachts reported another year of positive sales today following the 2024 Miami International Boat Show earlier this month. The company exceeded its goals by selling 21 units, a 10% increase compared to 2023.
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HOLLAND, Mich., June 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Tiara Yachts, a family-owned manufacturer of American-made luxury watercrafts celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2024, today announced that Director of IT, Michelle Seneca, has been selected as a winner of the 2024 Boating Industry's Women Making Waves award.. As a valued member of the Tiara Yachts team for more than three decades, Michelle ...
In a loss for the Biden administration, the Supreme Court on Friday ruled that federal ban on "bump stocks," gun accessories that allow semi-automatic rifles to fire more quickly, is unlawful.
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S2 Yachts. S2 Yachts is an American boat builder based in Holland, Michigan. From 1974 until 1989 the company specialized in the design and manufacture of fiberglass sailboats and it continues as a builder of motorboats. [1] [2] The company was founded by Leon Slikkers in 1974 and remained in business in 2019 as the parent company of Tiara Yachts.
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The company, located in Holland, Michigan, USA, was founded by boating industry legend, Leon Slikkers, after he had sold his powerboat company, Slickcraft. As part of the sales agreement, he was precluded from the powerboat market for a number of years. There were no restrictions on sailboat building. So he built a new plant which was, at the time, a model for production-line efficiency and ...
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S2 YACHTS BRINGS TIARA YACHTS AND TIARA SPORT UNDER SINGLE BRAND. Holland, Mich., (January 5, 2021) S2 Yachts is pleased to announce the consolidation of their Tiara brands (Tiara Yachts and Tiara Sport) under the Tiara Yachts banner. While this shift brings an outward and visible change to the Tiara Yachts brand, the form and functionality of every product built by S2 Yachts is ultimately ...
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Adam Quandt January 7, 2021. S2 Yachts recently announced the consolidation of its Tiara brands (Tiara Yachts and Tiara Sport) under a single Tiara Yachts banner. The boatbuilder says, while this shift brings an outward and visible change to the Tiara Yachts brand, the form and functionality of every product built by S2 Yachts is ultimately ...
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1981 S2 9.2. US$16,995. CenterPointe Yacht Sales | Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Request Info. <. 1. >. * Price displayed is based on today's currency conversion rate of the listed sales price. Boats Group does not guarantee the accuracy of conversion rates and rates may differ than those provided by financial institutions at the time of transaction.
S2 boats for sale in United States 22 Boats Available. Currency $ - USD - US Dollar Sort Sort Order List View Gallery View Submit. Advertisement. Save This Boat. S2 9.2 . Traverse City, Michigan. 1985. $14,900 Seller HarborView Yacht Sales, LLC 47. Contact. 231-867-0559. ×. Save This Boat. S2 9.2 Center Cockpit . San Diego, California ...
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So he built a new plant which was, at the time, a model for production-line efficiency and strict quality control. In the late 1970s, S2 did start building powerboats again, and soon established its Tiara line. Slikkers was later able to buy back his old powerboat line, Slickercraft. Production of sailboats ended in 1989.
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