Dimitri Andritsoyiannis is the Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Danaos Corporation. Mr. Andritsoyiannis has over 15 years of experience in finance and banking. Prior to joining us, Dimitri served as director of investment banking and as a member of the board of Alpha Finance, the investment banking arm of ALPHA BANK. During his years with Alpha Finance, he led a variety of financings, mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, privatizations and public offerings both in Greece and abroad. He holds a degree in Economics and Political Science from the Economic University of Athens, an MBA in finance from Columbia University, as well as a post-graduate diploma...more Harris Antoniou is globally responsible for Energy, Commodities & Transportation (ECT), and a member of the Merchant Banking Management Team of Fortis Bank Nederland NV. Harris was previously CEO of ECT within Fortis, a global leading player in several ECT industries. Prior to that Harris was Managing Director of Fortis' Transportation group based in Rotterdam, following different positions within Fortis in Greece, the UK and the Netherlands. Before joining Fortis Harris worked for a short period with ABN AMRO, global clients unit in Amsterdam. He is a graduate of Piraeus University in Greece, holder of a MBA from Erasmus University in the Netherlands, and has completed the General Management Program of Harvard Business School. Harris is married, has four children...more Dr. Loukas Barmparis is our President and a member of our board of directors. From 1999 to 2005 and from 1993 to 1995, Dr. Barmparis was employed at N. Daskalantonakis Group, Grecotel, one of the largest hotel chains in Greece, as technical manager and project development general manager. During the interim period between 1995 and 1999, Dr. Barmparis was employed at Exergia S.A. as an energy consultant. Dr. Barmparis holds a master of business administration from the Athens Laboratory of Business Administration, a doctorate from the Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, a master of applied science from the University of Toronto and a diploma in mechanical engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki...more 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. Capital Link has offices in New York, London and Athens and is a leader in investor relations for listed shipping companies, U.S. Closed-End Funds and ETFs and international companies accessing the U.S. and European markets. 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. Sold the company at the end of 2003 to a group of US investors representing Russian interests....more Robert Bugbee is the President of the Scorpio Group, a privately held shipping company. Prior to his current position he was a partner at Ospraie Management, President and Chief Operating Officer of OMI, and Head of Business Development at Gotaas-Larsen...more Scott Burk is an Executive Director and senior analyst at Oppenheimer covering the ocean shipping industry, focusing on the tanker, dry bulk and container leasing sectors. Before joining Oppenheimer in 2008, he covered ocean shipping at Bear Stearns. He was recognized as the top stock picker in industrial transportation by the Wall Street Journal's "Best on the Street" report for 2007. Previously, Scott covered oil and gas exploration and production stocks at Bear Stearns and at Frost Securities. He began his career as a petroleum engineer with Shell Oil Co. with responsibility for several large Gulf of Mexico oil and gas fields. He earned a B.S. in chemical engineering from Brigham Young University and an M.B.A...more Robin Das has two roles within HSH Nordbank's shipping team. He is Deputy Head of Shipping and Head of International Clients II (the latter comprises the shipping business in Asia, Nordic, Western Europe and North America as well as the Specialised Finance team). He joined HSH Nordbank in 2005. Before joining HSH Nordbank Mr Das was Head of Shipping at WestLB and prior to this he was joint Head of European shipping for J.P. Morgan. Mr Das commenced his banking career in 1994 as a graduate trainee with Chemical Bank, one of the J.P. Morgan predecessor organisations...more John was appointed as the Commercial Director of the Company on Admission. Prior to that John has been the Commercial Director of Goldenport Shipmanagement Ltd. for three years and has been employed by them for a total of five years. In the last five years he has also been involved in setting up and managing a yachting management and chartering business. He holds a degree in Business Administration and a Masters degree in Shipping Trade and Finance from City Business School (City University), London....more Marco Fiori joined COGEMA S.A.M. in 1996 as managing director and since that time has held many other executive positions in d'Amico Group companies Mr. Fiori is currently the chief executive officer of the Company. Prior to joining the d'Amico Group, Mr. Fiori was employed in the New York branch of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura. He was initially responsible for the loan portfolio and business development of Fortune 100 companies based on the U.S. West Coast and later, for overseeing and managing the entire U.S. business development market. From 1990 to 1994, he held the position of head of credit and in 1994 was promoted to the position of senior vice-president and deputy general manager of the New York branch...more Polys Hajioannou, Safe Bulkers, is our Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of our board of directors. Mr. Hajioannou was elected as a member of the board of directors of the Union of Greek Shipowners in 2005 and has served on the board since that time. Mr. Hajioannou is also a founding member of the Union of Cyprus Shipowners. Mr. Hajioannou holds a Bachelor of Science degree in nautical studies from Sunderland University....more Ken Hoexter has served as Banc of America Securities-Merrill Lynch's senior Airfreight & Surface Transportation analyst since January 2002. He has been in equity research for 16 years, covering telecom stocks for nine years before switching to Transportation. In 2008, Ken was named as an All-Star Analyst for the Transportation industry in the Institutional Investor Magazine's annual research poll, his fourth consecutive year ranked in Transportation, and becoming one of the rare analysts to be named in two completely different sectors in the II Magazine's research poll. Ken had previously been ranked for three consecutive years in Telecom Services before switching to Transportation. In the 2008 Financial Times/Starmine poll, Ken ranked as the #2 stock picker in the Road & Rail category....more Anthony Kandylidis started his career at OMI Corporation's commercial department. During his tenure at OMI Corporation he gained significant experience in the tanker vessel business and held various positions with responsibilities spanning Sale and Purchase, Time Charters, FFA Trading, Corporate Finance and Strategic Planning. In the spring of 2006, he returned to Greece where he provided consultancy services to companies affiliated with shipowner Mr. George Economou. In September of 2006, Mr. Kandylidis founded OceanFreight Inc. and in April of 2007 he took the Company public. Mr. Kandylidis graduated Magna Cum Laude from Brown University and continued his studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...more George Kassiotis (President, Chief Executive Officer and Director) 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 of our Drybulk Manager, including the development of Horizon Tankers Ltd., which contracted twelve newbuilding product tankers since 2002. Mr. Kassiotis comes from a shipping family and has been involved in various sectors of the shipping industry...more Mr. Lazaridis has served as the Chief Executive and Chief Financial Officer of our general partner since its formation in January 2007 and joined our Board of Directors in March 2007. Mr. Lazaridis has served as Capital Maritime's Chief Financial Officer and as a Director since its incorporation in March 2005. From 2004 to March 2005, Mr. Lazaridis was employed by our predecessor companies in the same capacity. From 1990 to 2004, Mr. Lazaridis served in various positions in the financial industry in the UK....more Michael E. McClure was appointed our Chief Financial Officer in August 2007. Mr. McClure has been Senior Vice President-Corporate Affairs of Navios Maritime Holdings since April 12, 2007. Prior to that date, Mr. McClure was Chief Financial Officer of Navios Maritime Holdings from October 1, 2005 to April 12, 2007. Mr. McClure joined Navios Maritime in 1978, at which time he served as Manager of Financial Analysis and then Director of South American Transportation Projects, which included Navios Maritime's owned port facility in Uruguay and its commercial leads in Venezuela and Columbia. He is a board member of The Baltic Exchange and the prior chairman of the Baltic Exchange Freight Market Indices Committee, which is the organization responsible for all freight indices utilized for freight derivative trading by the industry....more Gregory A. McGrath (Chief Financial Officer) has served as Omega Navigation's Chief Financial Officer since June 2005. He previously served as Vice President of Finance and Administration at American Eagle Tankers, Inc., Ltd., an Aframax and VLCC owner and operator, from 1995 to 2004 and as Vice President of Public Affairs from 2004 to 2005. Mr. McGrath served as Vice President, Finance and Administration with Marine Transport Lines, Inc. from 1990 to 1995...more David Mullen joined Ocean Rig in 2008. He comes from the position as Senior Vice President of Transocean Inc. with responsibility for all world wide marketing, corporate strategy and M&A activities. Prior to this position he was Vice President of the North & South America business unit for Transocean, with responsibility for directing operations and strategic direction of business operations. Between 2001 and 2004 David Mullen was president of Schlumberger Oilfield Services, North & South America. Based in Sugar Land, Texas, he was responsible for strategic direction of business operations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America...more Demetris Nenes, OceanFreight, is our Vice President of Business Development. Mr. Nenes began his professional career working at Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation as a Design Engineer working in various posts with the most significant being Head of the Trasmission Design Team for the Navy version of the S92. Mr. Nenes began his shipping carrer in 2005 joining OMI Corporation's Vetting / Safety & Quality department. During his career at OMI he moved in the commercial side of the business being involved in FFA Trading and Sales and Purchase. After the sale of OMI to TK and Torm, Mr. Nenes joined Ospraie Management LLC. Ospraie is a commodity hedge fund based in New York. At Ospraie Mr. Nenes was involved in both FFA trading and Market Research and Intelligence...more Eleftherios A. Papatrifon was appointed Chief Financial Officer on January 1, 2005. Mr Papatrifon joins the Company from Geniki Bank of Greece, a subsidiary of Societe Generale, where he served as Head of Investment Banking. He brings fifteen years of experience in Corporate Finance and Asset Management, having previously served as a portfolio manager for The Prudential Insurance Company of America, as well as increasingly responsible positions in the banking and financial services sectors in Greece. He holds both a BBA and an MBA from Baruch College of the City University of New York and is a member of the CFA Institute...more Jeff Parry has over 24 years of experience in the shipping industry. He was the President of Mystic Marine Advisors, a Connecticut-based advisory services firm for international ship owners, which he founded in 1998. Mystic Marine specializes in the development and structuring of private investments in dry bulk and tanker assets, and recently advised on the re-structuring of A.G. Pappadakis & Co., Ltd. From 2003 to 2007, he was a Managing Director of Poten Capital Services (PCS), a division of Poten & Partners, Inc. PCS, which was co-founded by Mr. Parry, is a FINRA registered broker-dealer specializing in M&A and commercial advisory services to major participants in the international energy and maritime sectors. Prior to co-founding PCS, Mr. Parry was a Senior Advisor...more Jeremy Penn was appointed Chief Executive of the Baltic Exchange in 2003, following 20 years with Reuters Group PLC where he held a wide range of positions specialising in technology and marketing related to financial information. He was Managing Director of Reuters Asia and was appointed to Reuters Executive Committee in 1996. He has lived and worked in France, Zimbabwe, Morocco, Hong Kong, Australia, Singapore and the USA as well as the UK. He was educated at Warwick School and Corpus Christ College, Oxford and later took the Advanced Management Programme at Harvard Business School. ...more Mr. Petrone became a director in May 2007 having become President of Navios Corporation in October 2006. He heads Navios' worldwide commercial operations. Mr. Petrone served in the Maritime Industry for 30 years, of which 27 were with Navios. After joining Navios as an assistant vessel operator, Mr. Petrone worked in various operational and commercial positions. For the last fifteen years, Mr. Petrone was responsible for all the aspects of the daily commercial Panamax activity, encompassing the trading of tonnage, derivative hedge positions and cargoes. Mr. Petrone graduated from New York Maritime College at Fort Schuyler with a B.S. in Maritime Transportation. He served as a third Mate aboard...more Aristides J. Pittas has been a member of our board of directors and our Chairman and CEO 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. Since January 1995, Mr. Pittas has been the President and Managing Director of Eurobulk Ltd., our affiliate. He resigned as Managing Director in June 2005. Eurobulk is a ship management company that provides ocean transportation services. From September 1991 to December 1994, Mr.Pittas was the Vice President of Oceanbulk Maritime SA, a ship management company...more Dale Ploughman has served as a member of our board of directors and our chief executive officer since May 20, 2008. He has over 43 years of shipping industry experience. Since 1999, Mr. Ploughman has been the chairman of South African Marine Corporation (Pty) Ltd., a dry bulk shipping company based in South Africa and affiliate to members of the Restis family, and the chairman of the Bahamas Ship Owners Association. In addition, Mr. Ploughman has served as president, chief executive officer and a director of Golden Energy Marine Corp. since February 2005. Mr. Ploughman also serves as president and chief executive officer of numerous private shipping companies controlled by members of the Restis family. From 1989 to 1999, Mr. Ploughman was the president of Great White Fleet, a fleet owned by Chiquita Brands International Inc...more Jeffrey D. Pribor joined General Maritime Corporation as our Chief Financial Officer in September 2004. Mr. Pribor has over 20 years of banking, capital markets, shipping and legal experience. Mr. Pribor most recently served as Managing Director and President of DnB Nor Markets Inc., the US investment banking division of DnB Nor ASA., where he was responsible for mergers and acquisitions, strategic advisory services and US capital market activities for the bank's shipping, offshore, logistics and energy clients. Prior to this, Mr. Pribor was Managing Director and Group Head of Transportation Banking at ABN AMRO Inc. where he was responsible for all commercial and investment banking activities for shipping and other transportation companies in North America. Prior to that, Mr. Pribor was Managing Director and Sector Head of Transportation and Logistics Investment Banking for ING Barings....more Chris Randall is a corporate finance partner in Norton Rose LLP's London office focussing on the transport sector in general and shipping in particular. Chris is experienced in both Equity Capital Markets and M&A work. In 2007, Chris advised on the listing of two shipping companies on the London Stock Exchange's AIM market, Globus Maritime and Hellenic Carriers and continues to advise these companies. Chris has also advised a number of US listed shipping companies on M&A activity in the shipping sector. Chris' clients outside of shipping include easyJet, Carlsberg and HSBC. Chris is dual UK and Hong Kong qualified having worked in Norton Rose's Hong Kong office from 2002 to 2005...more Dan's practice involves a broad range of finance work, including bank and structured financings, restructurings and US capital markets transactions. He advises financial institutions, participants in lease financings, and issuers of debt and public and private equity. In particular, Dan focuses on transactions involving shipping...more Charles Rupinski covers maritime, transportation, and energy companies as a Senior Vice President of Equity Research at Maxim Group. He has more than 10 years of investment experience, on both the buy and sell side. Previous to Maxim, he was a Director, Analyst and Portfolio Manager at Forstmann-Leff, a mid-sized money management firm. Prior to joining Forstmann-Leff, he worked at Morgan Stanley as a Senior Research Analyst covering a number of freight transportation industries, including railroads and logistics companies. While at Morgan Stanley, he developed the firm's maritime transportation research product out of its London office...more Kevin joined Stephens Inc. in April 2005 as part of the transportation equity research team, focusing on maritime and airfreight and logistics. Kevin was promoted to Research Analyst in July 2007 and will focus on shippers, maritime, & rail car suppliers. Prior to joining Stephens, Kevin was employed by Wachovia Corporation, BB&T Corporation, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. He holds a B.A. in business and economics from Randolph-Macon College and an M.B.A. with a concentration in management science from the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. In 2001, Kevin was awarded the Chartered Financial Analyst designation....more Dr. Peter Swift was appointed Managing Director of INTERTANKO (The International Association of Independent Tanker Owners) in 2001. INTERTANKO's members are committed to lead the continuous improvement of the Tanker Industry in striving to achieve the goals of zero fatalities, zero pollution and zero detentions. Peter Swift is a Director of the Maritime Industry Foundation, is on the Committee (Advisory Board) of the Green Award, Rotterdam, is Chairman of the European Committee of the Korean Register, and is a member of the American Bureau of Shipping....more George Syllantavos is Star Bulk's Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and director. He has also been Star Maritime's Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and a member of its board of directors since inception and its Secretary since December 2005. Since May 1999, he has been President and General Manager of Vortex Ltd., an aviation consulting firm specializing in strategic and fleet planning. From January 1998 to April 1999, he served as a financial advisor to Hellenic Telecommunications Organization S.A., where, on behalf of the Chief Executive Officer, he coordinated and led the company's listing on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:OTE) and where he had responsibilities for the strategic planning and implementation of multiple acquisitions of fixed-line telecommunications companies, including RomTelecom....more Mr. Tsakos has been President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of the Company since inception. Mr. Tsakos is the sole shareholder of Tsakos Energy Management Limited. He has been involved in ship management since 1981 and has seafaring experience of 36 months. He is the former President of the Hellenic Marine Environment Protection Agency (HELMEPA). Mr. Tsakos is a member of the council of the Independent Tanker Owners Association (INTERTANKO), a board member of the UK P&I Club, a board member of the Union of Greek Shipowners (UGS), a council member of the board of the Greek Shipping Co-operation Committee (GSCC) and a council member of the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), Bureau Veritas (BV) and of the Greek Committee of Det Norske Veritas (DNV). He graduated from Columbia University in New York in 1985 with a degree in Economics and Political Science and obtained....more 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. In August 1997 he became Chief Economist at MeesPierson Investment Bank. As Head of Economic Research of Fortis Bank NL, Merchant Banking - based in Amsterdam - he is presently responsible for the bank's economic forecasts for the major industrialised countries, in support of all commercial activities of its Merchant Bank....more Harry Vordokas has 35 years presence in Maritime Engineering. Born in Greece with studies in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering in Germany he spent few years behind the drawing board and in Shipyards. Before joining a Multifleet operator, he earned a Post graduate degree in Transportation Economics, gaining valuable insight into Management and Maritime Markets. His experience in Fleet Operations, Ship Conversions and Repairs as well as Owner of an Engineering and Business Consulting Company with his large network of contacts in Europe and the Americas are assets used in his present function as Business Development Manager for Germanischer Lloyd.....more Dimitris Vranopoulos has a BSC in economics of industry + trade and an MSC in investment planning from the London School of Economics. In addition he participated in the marine engineering undergraduate program of Imperial College. 1982-1985: worked for the Latsis Group in the shipping dept, purchasing dept and internal audit dept in Athens, London and Jeddah. 1985-1988: managing director of Sete Consultants, the central procurement office of the Latsis Group based in London and responsible for all group equipment supplies for shipping and construction projects in S Arabia....more Gerry Wang was appointed Chief Executive Officer and Director of Seaspan Corporation in May 2005. Mr. Wang joined the Offshore Division of Seaspan International Ltd. in early 1990 and is currently a director, Chief Executive Officer and President of Seaspan Container Lines Limited and each of its 23 subsidiaries. From 1986 to 1989, Mr. Wang was the business manager for China Merchants Group in Hong Kong. He graduated from Shanghai Maritime University in 1983 with a Bachelor's degree in Navigation, and in 1986, he earned a Master's degree in International Economics under the sponsorship program of the United Nations Economic and Social Council Asia Pacific. In 1993, he obtained his MBA degree from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, Canada....more Chris Wetherbee is the Vice President of Banc of America Securities-Merrill Lynch. He has been a member of the U.S. Transportation equity research team since April 2005, covering Rails, Trucks, Airfreight and Marine Transportation. Chris has been at Merrill Lynch since 1999 holding various positions in Research and the Office of General Counsel. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland and an MBA in Finance and Accounting from Fordham University....more