Christos Papanicolaou Senior Vice President / Business Development USA SIMPSON | SPENCE | YOUNG Christos Papanicolaou is currently Senior Vice President at SSY USA and Head of Business Development. Christos is a senior maritime executive with proven ability to handle, construct and execute structures in challenging environments. Strong management skills, team leader, analytical, strategic planning and proven negotiating skills, combined with discipline to track and manage the important details. As Senior Manager his experience includes start-ups, new ventures, and mergers and acquisitions. Currently working on structured finance deals with alternative and senior lenders within all shipping markets. Christos’ experience includes ship owning, brokerage, public markets and finance. Graduated Hofstra University I 1990 and fluent in Greek.