Mr George J. Procopiou was born in Athens in 1946 and is a civil engineer by education. He entered into the shipping segment in 1971 and has since then founded and built up a large shipping group consisting of Dynacom Tankers Management Ltd, Sea Traders S.A., Dynagas Ltd and Dynagas LNG Partners LP. Each company in the group is a standalone unit and is involved in the following sectors; crude oil and products, dry bulk and LNG.

The majority of the group is privately held apart from Dynagas LNG Partners LP which is listed on Nasdaq. The group has a reputation for high technical and operational performance. The group in aggregate is currently counting above 90 large commercial vessels.