Capital Link Shipping Forum Analyst & Investor Day
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Dale Ploughman<br />
Chief Executive Officer<br />
Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp.<br />
Dale Ploughman, Seanergy Maritime, has served as a member of our board of<br />
directors and our chief executive officer since May 20, 2008. He has over 43<br />
years of shipping industry experience. Since 1999, Mr. Ploughman has been<br />
the chairman of South African Marine Corporation (Pty) Ltd., a dry bulk<br />
shipping company based in South Africa and affiliate to members of the<br />
Restis family, and the chairman of the Bahamas Ship Owners Association. In<br />
addition, Mr. Ploughman has served as president, chief executive officer and<br />
a director of Golden Energy Marine Corp. since February 2005. Mr.<br />
Ploughman also serves as president and chief executive officer of numerous<br />
private shipping companies controlled by members of the Restis family. From<br />
1989 to 1999, Mr. Ploughman was the president of Great White Fleet, a fleet<br />
owned by Chiquita Brands International Inc., which was one of the largest<br />
shipping carriers to and from Central America. Mr. Ploughman has previously<br />
worked as president and chief executive officer of Lauritzen Reefers A.S., a<br />
shipping company based in Denmark, the managing director of Dammers and<br />
Vander Hiede <strong>Shipping</strong> and Trading Inc., a shipping company based in the<br />
Netherlands and as the chairman of Mackay <strong>Shipping</strong>, a shipping company<br />
based in New Zealand. He holds degrees in Business Administration and<br />
Personnel Management and Master's level Sea Certificates and was educated<br />
at the Thames Nautical Training College, HMS Worcester.<br />
Demetris Nenes<br />
President & Chief Operating Officer<br />
OceanFreight, Inc.<br />
Demetris Nenes is our President and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Nenes<br />
began his professional career working at Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation as a<br />
Design Engineer working in various posts with the most significant being<br />
Head of the Trasmission Design Team for the Navy version of the S92. Mr.<br />
Nenes began his shipping career in 2005 joining OMI Corporation's Vetting /<br />
Safety & Quality department. During his career at OMI he moved in the<br />
commercial side of the business being involved in FFA Trading and Sales and<br />
Purchase. After the sale of OMI to TK and Torm, Mr. Nenes joined Ospraie<br />
Management LLC. Ospraie is a commodity hedge fund based in New York.<br />
At Ospraie Mr. Nenes was involved in both FFA trading and Market Research<br />
and Intelligence. Mr. Nenes holds a diploma in Naval Architecture and<br />
Marine Engineer from the National Technical University of Athens and a<br />
Master's Degree in Business Administration from the University of<br />
Connecticut.<br />
Dimitri J. Andritsoyiannis<br />
Vice-President & Chief Financial<br />
Officer<br />
Danaos Corp.<br />
Dimitri Andritsoyiannis is the Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and a<br />
member of the Board of Directors of Danaos Corporation. Mr.<br />
Andritsoyiannis has over 15 years of experience in finance and banking. Prior<br />
to joining us, Dimitri served as director of investment banking and as a<br />
member of the board of Alpha Finance, the investment banking arm of<br />
ALPHA BANK. During his years with Alpha Finance, he led a variety of<br />
financings, mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, privatizations and public<br />
offerings both in Greece and abroad. He holds a degree in Economics and<br />
Political Science from the Economic University of Athens, an MBA in<br />
finance from Columbia University, as well as a post-graduate diploma in Ship<br />
Risk Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.<br />
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Emil Yiannopoulos<br />
Partner, Assurance Leader<br />
PricewaterhouseCoopers<br />
Emil Yiannopoulos, Chartered Accountant (ICAEW), in 1994 established<br />
and, until 30 June 2009, led the Corporate Finance and Transactions Advisory<br />
team in Greece. He is the Financial Services Industry Leader of the Greek<br />
firm, coordinating the provision of both assurance, tax and performance<br />
improvement services to the major Greek financial institutions and a member<br />
of the firm's senior management team. Recently he has assumed the Greek<br />
Territory Assurance Leadership role.<br />
Emil joined PwC in 1981 in London as an auditor, where he had a wide range<br />
of experience, including the banking and insurance sectors. In 1987, he joined<br />
the firm's Corporate Finance team in London where he worked on a variety of<br />
investigative and advisory assignments, primarily acquisitions, disposals and<br />
valuation related projects.<br />
Emil is based in Athens and has worked on a wide variety of investment<br />
transactions in Greece, and in the surrounding region, on behalf of both<br />
domestic and international clients and investors with particular focus on the<br />
shipping, banking and investment industries and on Private Equity<br />
transactions.<br />
Evangelos M. Marinakis<br />
Chairman of the Board & Chief<br />
Executive Officer<br />
Crude Carriers Corp.<br />
Mr. Marinakis has served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive<br />
Officer of Crude Carriers Corp. since its inception in 2010, as well as the<br />
Chairman of the Board of <strong>Capital</strong> Product Partners L.P since its inception in<br />
2007. Mr. Marinakis has also served as <strong>Capital</strong> Maritime's Chief Executive<br />
Officer and as a director since its incorporation in March 2005. From 1992 to<br />
2005, Mr. Marinakis was the Commercial Manager of <strong>Capital</strong> Ship<br />
Management and oversaw the businesses of the group of companies that<br />
currently form <strong>Capital</strong> Maritime. For the past 16 years, Mr. Marinakis has also<br />
been active in various other family businesses, all related to the shipping<br />
industry.<br />
Fotini Karamanlis<br />
Chief Executive Officer<br />
Hellenic Carriers, Ltd.<br />
Ms. Karamanlis is responsible for strategy, vessel acquisitions, chartering and<br />
financing.<br />
Ms. Karamanlis has 12 years shipping experience and has been with Mantinia<br />
<strong>Shipping</strong> Company S.A. since 1999. From 1998 to 1999 Ms. Karamanlis<br />
worked in the Sale and Purchase Department of Galbraiths Shipbrokers in<br />
London and before that she practiced as a shipping lawyer with Norton Rose<br />
in London and Greece.<br />
Ms. Karamanlis is a member of the Law Society of England and Wales and