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WELCOME TO NEW STAFF
REEDEREI “NORD” KLAUS E. OLDENDORFF LTD.
Nicos Kacoullis, Accounts Manager
Mr. Nicos Kacoullis has been employed as
the Manager of the Accounts Department, effective
1st of April 2005. He was born in Limassol, Cyprus
on 4th October 1967. He studied Business
Administration majoring in Certified Public
Accounting at Pace University, New York. During his
college and practicing career he worked for various
American Companies such as Goldman Sachs,
Coopers & Lybrant and Jan Bengelsdorff CPA's, as
an auditor / financial & tax consultant.
Beginning of 1994 he returned to Cyprus
and was employed by Unicom Management Services
(Cyprus) Ltd., as a Chief Accountant of the Tankers
Division. He was promoted to the position of
Systems and Internal Audit Manager, a position he
held until 1998. In July '98 he moved to Greece and
worked for Danaos Management Consultants
(Greece) Ltd. as a Senior Financial Consultant. In
July 1999, Mr. Kacoullis moved back to Cyprus as a
Managing Director of Danaos (Cyprus). In 2002 he
was employed by TUI AG and Atlantica Hotels as a
Group Financial Controller for their newly formed
J V Company Atlantica Hotels Management Ltd. and
was responsible for the group's financial activities both
in Cyprus and Greece, reporting to TUI AG.
Mr. Kacoullis is a member of the AICPA's and the I.M.A.
NORD NEWS Summer 2005
Nicos Paneras, Financial Controlling
Mr. Nicos Paneras joined
Reederei "NORD" Klaus E Oldendorff Ltd. on
May 16th, as Financial Controller, a newly
created position. Before joining, he
was employed by the Middle East Marketing
Research Bureau in Nicosia, as a Group
Financial Controller.
Mr. Paneras was born in the town of
Famagusta, on 1st November 1965, and now
lives in Limassol with his wife and two children.
He studied accounting in the UK and became a
certified accountant. On his return to Cyprus in
1992, he was employed by Deloitte, (initialy as
an Auditor and later on as a Senior Auditor)
where he got his practical experience, mainly in
the shipping and shipmanagement sectors, but
also in other sectors such as company valuations,
tax and V.A.T. He has since acquired 13 years of
experience in accounting and finance having
held financial positions in shipping, financial as
well as marketing companies.
Mr. Paneras will be completing his postgraduate
studies, shortly and will obtain his
MBA in Finance and Shipping. He is also
an associate member of the Chartered
Management Institute.
Mrs. Egli Loizidou Hadjigeorgiou - Senior Purchaser
Mrs. Loizidou was born in 1970 in Famagusta. Since 1974, her family has
been living in Limassol. She is married and has two daughters, twelve and
seven years old. After finishing high school, she studied Tourist /
Management and joined Columbia Shipmanagement in October 1993.
During her time there she also studied Shipping with the Institute of
Chartered Ship Brokers in London via the Cyprus Shipping Council.
Mrs. Loizidou says she has gained a lot of experience as she has visited
4 container vessels in Hamburg and Netherlands and has attended a ship's
dry-dock at Malta for 6 days. She has also visited main suppliers at Hamburg and has attended spare
parts exhibitions and seminars with reference to communication / computers / appraisal etc.
In April 2005, she joined Reederei “NORD” in the position of Senior Purchaser.