Anthony Argyropoulos
Managing Director in the Investment Banking Group
Cantor Fitzgerald & Co.
Mr. Argyropoulos is a Managing Director in the Investment Banking group of Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. He has direct responsibility for the maritime sector with extensive investment banking expertise developed since early 1999 in the seaborne transportation industry. From 1999 through early 2004 he was a Senior Vice President with Jefferies & Company, Inc. where he was instrumental in developing their maritime investment banking practice. He has been involved with raising $1.7 billion in public equity securities,...more

Nicholas J. Bailey
Director
Howe Robinson
Mr. Bailey joined Howe Robinson Shipbrokers in 2003 as a member of the Newbuildings and Sale & Purchase team. In 2005 Mr Bailey co-opened the Hamburg office for Howe Robinson which focuses on the sale and purchase of modern containerships, newbuildings and long period time charter broking. Prior to Howe Robinson, Mr. Bailey worked for Theisen Securities Limited, a corporate finance advisory boutique specialising in the shipping industry...more

Nicolas Bornozis
President
Capital Link
As of 1996, founder, President and CEO of Capital Link, Inc., an international investor relations and financial advisory group. It assists listed companies and capital markets related organizations to develop and maintain access to European and North American investors. He also established and managed, Alexander Capital, L.P, a US broker-dealer firm, which developed brokerage and investment banking business in North America with the Greek, Egyptian and Russian markets...more

Jonathan Chappell, CFA
Vice President, Equity Research
J.P. Morgan Securities
Jonathan Chappell, CFA, a senior equity research analyst at J.P. Morgan Securities, provides research coverage of small- and mid-cap transportation stocks, with a coverage universe that includes international oil tanker companies, offshore supply vessel companies, U.S.-listed container shipping companies, U.S. inland barge companies, and fuel resellers. Jon has been an equity research analyst since 1996...more

Dr. John Coustas
President & CEO
Danaos Corporation
Dr. John Coustas is our President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors. Dr. Coustas has over 25 years of experience in the shipping industry and assumed management of our company in 1987 from his father, Dimitris Coustas, who founded Danaos Shipping in 1972. John is also a member of the board of directors of Danaos Management Consultants and The Swedish Club....more

Antony S Crawford
President, Director & Executive Officer
MC Shipping
Antony S Crawford was appointed Chief Executive Officer, President and a director of MC Shipping in August 2004. Prior to that he was a director and a founder of V Holdings Limited and Chief Executive of V Investments Limited. From 1983 to 2005 Mr Crawford was a director and finally Chief Executive Officer of V Ships PLC which he joined in 1983 as a shipbroker when this Group was associated with the Vlasov Group...more

J. Michael Drickamer
Vice President
Morgan Keegan
J. Michael Drickamer, CFA, joined Morgan Keegan in 2005 as an oilfield services and equipment analyst. Prior to joining the firm, he worked in a similar capacity at Hibernia Southcoast Capital from 2000 to 2005, and also has experience with Dent Asset Management, a Louisiana- based wealth management company...more

Urs Dür
Vice President, Equity Research
Lazard Capital Markets
Urs Dür, a Vice President and shipping & logistics analyst, joined Lazard Capital Markets in May 2006. Before joining LCM, Urs was a relationship manager for DVB Bank AG of Frankfurt in New York, where he specialized in commercial lending to marine shipping companies, structuring products to meet their needs. Prior to DVB, he was the Editor and Publisher of Marine Money International, which publishes Marine Money a monthly marine shipping finance magazine, and Freshly Minted, a weekly online publication which supplements the monthly publication...more

George Economou
Chairman, President and CEO
DryShips Inc.
George Economou has been actively involved in the shipping industry for over 25 years. After graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976 with a B.A. and an M.S. in "Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering" and an M.S. in "Shipping and Shipbuilding Management," George Economou commenced working as a Superintendent Engineer in Thenamaris Ship Management in Greece...more

Andrew Garcia
Event Driven & BCC Specialist
Maxim Group LLC
Andrew Garcia is the Event-Driven and BCC Specialist in Maxim Group's Capital Markets group. In this capacity he is responsible for advising Maxim Group's institutional clients regarding opportunities in the event-driven and BCC space and publishes the firm's weekly blank check survey, Carte Blanche. Prior to joining Maxim Group, Andrew was Director of Trading at Laterman & Co., a private investment partnership in Manhattan, where he co-managed the firm's event-driven portfolio...more

Christopher Georgakis
Chief Executive Officer
Excel Maritime Carriers Ltd.
Christopher Georgakis has two decades of dry bulk shipping experience and joined Excel Maritime following 6 years as a partner with privately owned, London-based Sea Challenger Maritime Ltd, a subsidiary of Belmont Shipping Ltd. While he was with Sea Challenger, Mr. Georgakis managed all aspects of shipping operations and contracted for transportation of cargoes such as steels, grains, fertilizers and cement in amounts exceeding 2.5 million dwt annually...more

George Kassiotis
President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Omega Navigation Enterprises, Inc.
Mr. George Kassiotis has served as our President, Chief Executive Officer and Director since our inception in February 2005. Prior to joining us, since 1996 Mr. Kassiotis was the commercial director of our Drybulk Manager and since 1999 he led, as a senior executive director, the development of our Drybulk Manager's business and oversaw its growth and expansion. In this capacity Mr. Kassiotis has been responsible for vessel sale and purchase, project development, financing and other transactions effected by other shipowning affiliates...more

Gregory Lewis
Senior Equity Research Analyst
Fortis Securities
Gregory Lewis, a Senior Equity Research Analyst covering Marine Transportation and Services joined Fortis Bank in 2005. Prior to joining Fortis, he worked at Wilmington Trust and Scudder Investments. Gregory also worked as an engineer for a Naval contractor and held various positions at an engineering consulting firm. He holds a BS in Ocean Engineering from the University of Rhode Island and is a Chartered Financial Analyst...more

Thor Erik Lie
Partner & Director, Gas Department
Lorentzen & Stemoco
Mr. Thor Erik Lie has 30 years of experience from shipbroking, shipfinancing and shipowning. 15 years experience from shipbroking in the gas market. Since 1999 employed in Lorentzen & Stemoco, initially in the S&P/Newbuilding department and thereafter in the gas department. Involved in LPG, Petchem Gas and LNG tonnage covering: S&P; Newbuildings; Structured transactions/Projects...more

George Margaronis
Managing Director
Clarkson Hellas Ltd.
Mr. George Margaronis is currently the Managing Director of Clarkson Hellas Ltd. Clarkson Hellas is the Greek branch of H. Clarkson & Co Ltd. (based in London), the world's largest ship broking group. He began his professional career with H. Clarkson & Co. in London as a Dry Cargo Shipbroker. He remained there for three years until he moved to Greece to join Transman Shipping Enterprises S.A., as an In-house Chartering broker...more

Doug Mavrinac
Equity Research Analyst
Jefferies & Company
Douglas Mavrinac is a Senior Equity Research Analyst leading the firm's Maritime Equity Research group. He joined the firm in May 2003 and currently focuses on shipping companies that transport crude oil, refined petroleum products, LNG, and dry bulk commodities. Prior to joining Jefferies, Mr. Mavrinac worked nine years in the energy industry most recently as a commodity analyst in the Strategic Market Analysis..more

Stamatis Molaris
President and Chief Executive Officer
Quintana
Stamatis Molaris is our Chief Executive Officer and President. Prior to this, Mr. Molaris served as Chief Financial Officer and a director of Stelmar Shipping Ltd. from August 1993 until January 2005. Prior to that, Mr. Molaris served as an audit manager for Arthur Andersen. Mr. Molaris obtained an undergraduate degree in Business Administration and Economics from Richmond College in London and a post-graduate degree in Finance from Strathclyde University of Glasgow...more

Jeremy Penn
Chief Executive
The Baltic Exchange
Born 1959 in the UK, Jeremy Penn was educated at Warwick School, at Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MA 1981) and (1999) the Advanced Management Programme at Harvard Business School. He joined Reuters (1981), and specialised in technology and marketing related to financial information. Over a period of 20 years he lived and worked in Zimbabwe, Morocco, Hong Kong,...more

Aristides J. Pittas
Chief Executive Officer
Euroseas
Aristides J. Pittas has been a member of our Board of Directors and our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since our inception on May 5, 2005. Since 1997, Mr. Pittas has also been the President of Eurochart S.A., our affiliate. Eurochart is a shipbroking company specializing in chartering and selling and purchasing ships. Since 1997, Mr. Pittas has also been the President of Eurotrade, a ship operating company and our affiliate...more

Arthur L. Regan
President & Co-Chief Executive Officer
Arlington Tankers Ltd
Arthur L. Regan, 44, has been the President and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Arlington Tankers Ltd since its incorporation and Initial Public Offering in 2004. From 2001 to 2004, Mr. Regan was Vice President of Business Development for Stena Bulk, a large privately held international shipping conglomerate. There he was responsible for shipping commercial contracts and fleet development...more

Joseph E. Royce
President, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman and Director
TBS International Limited
Mr. Royce has been president, chairman and director since the inception of TBS International, and chief executive officer since March 2005. Since 1993, Mr. Royce has served as president of TBS Shipping Services and is responsible for supervising the vessels in TBS's breakbulk, bulk and liner operations. Since 1978, Mr. Royce has organized and managed ventures engaged in ownership and operation of vessels. Between 1984 and early 1993, Mr. Royce was president of COTCO, a dry cargo pool of over 45 vessels...more

John M. Stichter
Partner
Mallory Jones Lynch Flynn and Associates
John has spent his entire shipping career with MJLF, joining the firm part time in 1983 and becoming full time in 1985 after graduating from St. Lawrence University with a B.A. in Political Science. In 1993 he became a partner. He has experience in all sizes of the tanker sector, with extensive knowledge of the product market...more

Nikolas P. Tsakos
Chief Executive Officer
Tsakos Energy Navigation
Nikolas Tsakos has been involved in ship management since 1981. Prior to that, he spent a total of two years at sea gaining on-hand experience. From 1982 to 1985, he was Shipping and Operations Manager of Tsakos Shipping & Trading Ltd in the USA. He received his BA Degree in Economics and Political Science from Columbia University in 1985 and his Masters Degree in Shipping Trade and Finance from the London City University Business School in 1987... more

Guy Verberne
Head of Economic Research
Fortis Merchant Banking
Guy Verberne studied economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam. From 1989 to 1993, he was employed at the Treasury of the Dutch Ministry of Finance as an advisor on macro-economic and budgetary policy. He then joined MeesPierson Capital Management N.V., where he worked as a senior portfolio manager on the fixed-income team... more