Alisdair Pettigrew has 15 years experience of working in the markets where marine, energy and environment meet. He is co-founder of BLUE, a communications’ consultancy, whose mission is to bring new strategic intelligence to reputation management in industries that must alter perceptions of their economic and social value. He came to communications from a successful decade in journalism and as publisher with Informa and Petromedia.Continue Reading …
Alisdair Pettigrew, Managing Director and Co-Founder of BLUE Communications
Diane Gilpin, Founder CEO at Smart Green Shipping Alliance
Diane Gilpin designed and leads the Smart Green Shipping Alliance, SGSA. It is a collaborative industry initiative created to build technically, commercially and environmentally superior systems solutions for the shipping sector.Continue Reading …
Roger Harris, Executive Director, International Seafarers’ Welfare and Assistance Network (ISWAN).
Roger Harris is the Executive Director of the International Seafarers’ Welfare and Assistance Network (ISWAN). He joined the International Committee on Seafarer’s Welfare (ICSW), the predecessor to ISWAN, six years ago.Continue Reading …
Kate D Adamson, Blue Futurist, FutureNautics
Kate D Adamson is a Blue Futurist and thought-leader in the maritime space, she the founder of Futurenautics, an author, novelist, conference chair and keynote speaker. Alongside her work as keynote speaker, Kate is an accomplished and frequently requested conference MC, roundtable anchor, and has presented both for TV and Radio.Continue Reading …
Kathi Stanzel, Managing Director, INTERTANKO
Kathi Stanzel is the Managing Director of the International Association of Independent Tanker Owners, INTERTANKO since five years. Prior to that she was twelve years with the International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation, ITOPF, and the International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds, IOPC. Continue Reading …
Suzanne Williams, QPM, International, independent kidnap response expert
Sue Williams, QPM, is an international independent kidnap response expert, who spent 32 years as a civil servant in the Scotland Yard, where she ended as Head of the Hostage Crisis Negotiation Unit, prior to starting her own company as an independent consultant. Continue Reading …
Kathleen C Haines, CFO and Treasurer of Heidmar Inc
Kathleen C. Haines (Kathy) is the Chief Financial Officer, CFO, and Treasurer of Heidmar Inc. and is responsible for the financial management and reporting for Heidmar Inc. and subsidiaries, and for Heidmar International Pools Inc. and subsidiaries. She is also a member of the Heidmar Executive Committee. Continue Reading …
Dr Tristan Smith, UCL Energy Institute
Dr Tristan Smith is a lecturer in Energy and Transport at the UCL Energy Institute, where he leads a shipping modelling and analysis research group. Tristan has degrees in Engineering and Naval Architecture and he has been the coordinator of the project Low Carbon Shipping – A Systems Approach, leading two of the six work packages on ‘modelling the global shipping system’ and ‘regulation policy and incentives for low carbon shipping’.Continue Reading …
Adam Kent, Director, Maritime Strategies International, MSI
Adam Kent has always loved ships and was actually a ship-spotter when he was young. He grew up on the Isle of Wight, but was never meant to work in the shipping industry.Continue Reading …
Niclas Dahl, Market Unit Manager, Marine Equipment, Marine & Diesel Equipment, Alfa Laval
Niclas Dahl is the Market Unit Manager for Marine & Diesel Equipment at Alfa Laval in Shanghai, but he started up as a Business Manager for the Ballast Water business area within Alfa Laval some ten years ago. Continue Reading …
Andreas Chrysostomou, Director, Department of Merchant Shipping, Cyprus
Andreas Chrysostomou is a naval architect who grew up through the ranks and last year was Nomination for IMO as a candidate for the position of Secretary-General at the International Maritime Organisation, IMO. Continue Reading …
Markku Mylly, Managing Director of the European Maritime Safety Agency, EMSA
Markku Mylly, Managing Director of the European Maritime Safety Agency, EMSA, formerly employed by the Finnish Maritime Administration, but above all a “tanker-man” is running EMSA in Lisbon, which is the link between the member states and the European Commission when it comes to maritime regulations. Continue Reading …
Yvonne Pokropek, HR Director DB Schenker, Region North & East
Yvonne Pokropek is the HR Director for 13 countries within the DB Schenker group. She has a background in the union, the HR team in Port of Gothenburg, at LEAR Corporation and now more than a decade within the forwarding company DB Schenker.Continue Reading …
Karin Orsel, CEO MF Shipping Group
Karin Orsel is a 45 year old Shipowner, Ship manager & Entrepreneur who thinks it is very important to engage and get involved in the international trade associations within the shipping industry – how else can you influence upcoming regulations, gain knowledge and have a heads-up? Continue Reading …
Per Bondemark, Chief Procurement Officer, SSAB
Per Bondemark is the Chief Procurement Officer at SSAB, a Swedish steel company listed on NASDAQ in Stockholm. He leads a team at SSAB which is buying transport for more than SEK 3 bio, handle approximately 900 ships yearly and are used to tackle the ice situation in the Baltic Sea.Continue Reading …
Rolf Westerström, CEO Swedish Sea Rescue Society, SSRS
Rolf Westerström, CEO of the Swedish Sea Rescue Society, SSRS, speaks about how their organisation has developed over the last 20-25 years, how accidents as ESTONIA, SCANDINAVIAN STAR & JAN HEWELIUSZ was a wakeup call and what impact they had on the development of new, faster and more safe rescue boats and how mass evacuation now is looked upon in a completely different way.Continue Reading …
Consuelo Rivero, Shipping Agent, Agency Department, Ership, Huelva, Spain
Consuelo Rivero, Shipping Agent at Ership in Huelva, Spain, has been the Secretary of the WISTA International Executive Committee for the last six years and she is the most loyal fan of the Shipping Podcast, always supporting and giving feedback! Continue Reading …
Danae D. Bezantakou, Managing Director Navigator Shipping Consultants, Athens
Danae D. Bezantakou is the Managing Director of Navigator Shipping Consultants and a member of WISTA Hellas. She is a member of several leadership programmes and she has started the Open Mind Group for mentoring young people within the shipping industry. Continue Reading …
Sanjam Gupta, Director Sitara Shipping Ltd, India and President WISTA India
Sanjam Gupta, Director Sitara Shipping Ltd, India is the President of WISTA India and also a member of the WISTA International Executive Committee, EXCO. She is the founder of WISTA India and in this episode she tells the true story of how she got upset to be the only woman attending gatherings within the maritime cluster in India, making her google for Women in Shipping and through the website find WISTA International. Continue Reading …
Joan Nuijten-Muller, HR Manager, Multraship B.V. and current President of WISTA the Netherlands
In this, the nineteenth episode, I meet with Joan Nuijten-Muller, the current President of WISTA the Netherlands and HR Manager at the family owned tugboat company Multraship B.V.Continue Reading …
