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Board of Directors |
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Georgios Feidakis, Non - Executive Chairman of the Board |
Georgios ("George") Feidakis is our founder and principal shareholder and has served as chairman of the board of directors since inception. Mr. Feidakis is also the major shareholder and Chairman of FG Europe, a company Mr, Feidakis has been involved with since 1994 and that has been listed on the Athens Stock Exchange since 1968, and acts as a director and executive for several of its subsidiaries. FG Europe is active in four lines of business and distributes well known brands in Greece, the Balkans, Turkey and Italy. FG Europe is in the air-conditioning and white/brown electric goods market in Greece and is active in power generation and mobile telephony. Mr. Feidakis is also the director and chief executive officer of R.F. Energy S.A., a company that plans, develops and controls the operation of energy projects, and acts as a director and executive for several of its subsidiaries.
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Georgios Karageorgiou, Director, President and Chief Executive Officer |
Georgios ("George") Karageorgiou is a Class I director and has served as our Chief Executive Officer since our inception and was appointed our President in 2011. Mr. Karageorgiou worked from 1992 to March 2004 as a director for Stelmar Shipping Ltd, a shipping company listed on the New York Stock Exchange between 2001 and 2004, and for a short period he also served as corporate secretary. Mr. Karageorgiou worked as a projects engineer for Kassos Maritime Enterprises from 1990 to 1992. Mr. Karageorgiou was also a director of easyGroup Ltd, easyJet Holdings Ltd, easyInternetCafe Ltd, easyCruise Ltd, Stelinvest Corp. and a number of other easyGroup subsidiaries from 1995 through March 2005. Mr. Karageorgiou holds a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering and an M.E. in Ocean Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology and an M.Sc. in Shipping Trade and Finance from City University Business School.
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Elias S.Deftereos, Director, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary |
Mr. Deftereos has served as our chief financial officer and a member of our board of directors since April 2007. Mr. Deftereos previously worked as a finance director at Astron Maritime from Mach 2005 to July 2006 and as the finance director of Konkar Shipping Agencies S.A. from January 2004 to February 2005, each of which company managed fleets of dry bulk vessels. Mr. Deftereos worked as group treasurer of Mytilineos Holdings from 1999 to 2001, a company listed on the Athens Stock Exchange, and as an investment manager for Lehman Brothers from 1997 to 1998. Mr. Deftereos worked as an account officer for ship financing for ABN AMRO Bank from 1994 to 1996, and an analyst for Olympic Maritime of the Onassis Group from 1988 to 1991. Mr. Deftereos holds a B.A. in Economics from the State University of New York at Buffalo and an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago.
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Amir Eilon, Non-Executive Director |
Mr. Eilon has served as our director since June 2007. Mr. Eilon has been a director of Eilon & Associates Limited since February 1999, which provides general corporate advice. Mr. Eilon was previously a non-executive chairman of Spring plc, listed on the London Stock Exchange from mid-2004 to August 2009 and a director of Flamingo Holdings, venture capital backed private company, from March 2007 to April 2009. Mr. Eilon was the managing director of Credit Suisse First Boston Private Equity from 1998 to 1999, the managing director of BZM from 1990 to 1998, where he has head of gobal capital markets, and managing director of Morgan Stanley, London from 1985 to 1990, where he was responsible for international equity capital markets.
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Jeffrey Owen Parry, Non-Executive Director |
Mr. Parry has served as our director since July 2010. Mr. Parry is currently the president of Mystic Marine Advisors LLC, a Connecticut-based advisory firm specializing in turnaround and emerging shipping companies, and has been affiliated with such company since August 1998. From July 2008 to October 2009, he was president and chief executive officer of NASDAQ-listed Aries Maritime Transport Limited (now NewLead Holdings Ltd.). Mr. Parry has also served as the managing director of A.G. Pappadakis & Co. Ltd, an Athens-based shipowner from March 2007 to July 2008, and managing director of Poten Capital Services LLC, a U.S. broker/dealer firm specializing in shipping from February 2003 to March 2007. Mr. Parry holds a B.A. from Brown University and an MBA from Columbia University. Mr. Parry started his career as a stevedore on the New York waterfront.
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