Mark Cameron is the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for
Ardmore. Mr. Cameron joined Ardmore as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating
Officer and was appointed an alternate director in June 2010. From 2008 to 2010,
Mr. Cameron served as Vice President, Strategy and Planning for Teekay Marine
Services, Teekay Corporation’s internal ship management function. Mr.
Cameron spent 11 years at sea rising to the rank of Chief Engineer with Safmarine
and later AP Moller, including time served onboard bulk carriers, salvage tugs,
tankers, general cargo, reefer and container ships. Mr. Cameron has held a number
of senior management roles ashore specializing in integrating acquisitions covering
all facets of ship management, as well as sale and purchase, newbuilding supervision,
personnel management, procurement, fleet management and technical supervision.
Brian Dunne is a director of the Company. Mr. Dunne is a director of a number
of companies in the aviation, finance and insurance sectors, and has served
as a director of Ardmore since June 2010. Mr. Dunne was the Chief Financial
Officer of ACE Aviation Holdings Inc. (“ACE”) from 2005 until 2012
and was the President of the company in 2011 and 2012. ACE was the parent holding
company of the reorganized Air Canada and a number of other entities including
Aeroplan LP (now AIMIA Inc.) and Air Canada Jazz (now Chorus Aviation Inc.).
Mr. Dunne was also a director of Air Canada from its initial public offering
in 2006 until 2008. Prior to joining ACE, Mr. Dunne was Chief Financial Officer
and a director of Aer Lingus Group plc. He started his career at Arthur Andersen
in 1987 and became a partner in 1998. Mr. Dunne is a Fellow of the Institute
of Chartered Accountants in Ireland and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree
and a post graduate diploma in Professional Accounting from the University College
Dublin.
Albert Enste has served as a director of Ardmore since its IPO in August 2013.
Mr. Enste currently serves as an active partner and Managing Director of both
Enste & American Investors Holding Gmbh and Federnfabrik Schmid AG. He also
currently serves on the boards of People Guard USA and Federnfabrik Schmid AG
Switzerland. Between 2006 and 2011, Mr. Enste served as the Vice President and
General Manager of International Business at Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc. From
2000 to 2001, Mr. Enste headed worldwide locomotive sales as Vice President
of Locomotives at DaimlerChrysler Rail Systems ADtranz and continued to hold
this position, as well as that of Senior Director until 2006 with Bombardier
Transportation after they acquired DaimlerChrysler Rail Systems ADtranz. Mr.
Enste holds a Master of Engineering from the Technical University of Munich.
Anthony Gurnee has been our President, Chief Executive Officer and a director
of Ardmore since 2010. Between 2006 and 2008, he was the Chief Executive Officer
of Industrial Shipping Enterprises, Inc., a containership and chemical tanker
company, and Chief Operating Officer of MTM Group, an operator of chemical tankers.
From 1992 to 1997, he was the Chief Financial Officer of Teekay Corporation,
where he led the company’s financial restructuring and initial public
offering. Mr. Gurnee began his career as a financier with Citicorp, and he served
for six years as a surface line officer in the US Navy, including a tour with
naval intelligence. He is a graduate of the US Naval Academy and earned an MBA
at Columbia Business School, is a CFA charter holder, and a fellow of the Institute
of Chartered Shipbrokers.
Reginald Jones is our Chairman and a director. Mr. Jones has been the Chairman
and a director of Ardmore since 2010. Mr. Jones is a co-founder and Managing
Partner of Greenbriar Equity Group LLC. Prior to founding Greenbriar in 1999,
Mr. Jones spent 13 years at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he was a Managing
Director and Group Head of global transportation investment banking. During
his time there, Mr. Jones managed a number of the firm’s largest corporate
clients and led the execution of significant transactions related to mergers
and acquisitions, equity and debt financings, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations,
and principal investments. Prior to Goldman Sachs, he worked as a consultant
at Bain & Company. Mr. Jones earned a BA from Williams College and an MBA
from the Harvard Business School.
Niall McComiskey is a director of the Company. Mr. McComiskey was appointed
as a director of Ardmore in March 2011. Mr. McComiskey is also a Director at
Greenbriar Equity Group LLC. Prior to joining Greenbriar, Mr. McComiskey was
a Vice President at HSH Nordbank AG from 2004 to 2006, where he led many of
the firm’s investment activities in the transportation sector. Previously,
Mr. McComiskey worked in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group at Deutsche Bank
AG. Mr. McComiskey holds a BA in economics from Yale University. He also serves
as a director of Grakon International, Inc.
Robert McIlwraith has served as a director of Ardmore since its IPO in August
2013. Mr. McIlwraith has been an owner of Redwood Management Consultants since
April 2011 and has served as Chairman of the Exeter Initiative for Science and
Technology (ExIST) since June 2011. He has also served as Chairman of the Trustees
of AmSafe Bridport Pension Scheme since 2000, has been teaching Accounting and
Finance and Management Studies at INTO University of Exeter since January 2011,
became a chamber member at the Exeter Chamber of Commerce and Industry in April
2013, and has served as a Trustee of Sidmouth Hospiscare since 2011. He previously
served as the President of Align Aerospace France from October 2011 to August
2012 and as a Managing Director and Executive Vice President for the global
aerospace and defense business Amsafe from 1998 to 2011. Mr. McIlwraith earned
his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Cardiff University
and is a Chartered Engineer and a Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
Curtis McWilliams was appointed as a director by the board of directors in
January 2016. Mr. McWilliams is a real estate industry veteran with over 25
years of experience in finance and real estate. He currently serves as a member
of the Ashford Hospitality Prime, Inc. Board of Directors. He retired from his
position as President and Chief Executive Officer of CNL Real Estate Advisors,
Inc. in 2010 after serving in the role since 2007. Mr. McWilliams was also the
President and Chief Executive Officer of Trustreet Properties Inc. from 1997
to 2007, and a director of the company from 2005 to 2007. He served on the Board
of Directors and as the Audit Committee Chairman of CNL Bank from 1999 to 2004
and has over 13 years of investment banking experience at Merrill Lynch &
Co. Mr. McWilliams has a Masters degree in Business, with a concentration in
Finance, from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, and a Bachelor
of Science in Engineering in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University.
Gernot Ruppelt is our Senior Vice President, Chartering and Business Development.
Mr. Ruppelt joined Ardmore as Director, Chartering and Business Development
in 2013 and was appointed to his current position as Senior Vice President in
December 2014. Mr. Ruppelt brought to Ardmore 12 years of commercial experience
in the maritime business. From 2008 to 2013, he worked as a Tanker Broker at
Poten & Partners, New York. During his time at Poten & Partners, Mr.
Ruppelt brokered longer term deals for crude oil, product and chemical tankers
working on behalf of ship-owners and operators, oil traders, refineries and
oil companies. From 2001 to 2008 he worked for Maersk Broker and AP Moller —
Maersk in Copenhagen, Singapore and Germany. As a broker at Maersk, Mr. Ruppelt
concluded container ship contracts for third party business, and he also spent
several years at Maersk’s liner organization, most recently as Trade Manager
for their Pacific Eastbound trade. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered
Shipbrokers in London. He also completed the two-year “Maersk International
Shipping Education” program and graduated from Hamburg Shipping School.
Peter Swift has served as a director of Ardmore since its IPO in August 2013.
Dr. Swift has had a distinguished career spanning 45 years in the maritime industry,
and is presently serving in non-profit and charitable directorships, including
acting as the Chairman of the Maritime Piracy Humanitarian Response Programme,
as a Member for both the American Bureau of Shipping and the IMO Committee of
the Royal Institution of Naval Architects, and as a Director of the Maritime
Industry Foundation. Dr. Swift was previously the Managing Director of INTERTANKO
from 2000 to 2010 and a Director of Seascope Shipping Limited from 1999 to 2001.
He was employed by Royal Dutch Shell from 1975 to 1999 in a range of commercial
and technical roles. Dr. Swift holds a PhD in Transport Economics, an MS in
Engineering degree from the University of Michigan, and a BS in Naval Architecture
from the University of Durham. He is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the
Royal Institution of Naval Architects.
Paul Tivnan has been Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Secretary
and Treasurer of Ardmore since June 2010. Mr. Tivnan joined Ardmore in June
2010 and was appointed Chief Financial Officer in December 2012. From 2002 to
2010, he was employed at Ernst & Young, most recently, as a Senior Executive
in the Financial Services Tax Advisory department specialising in international
tax and corporate structuring. He was a participant in Ernst & Young’s
Accelerated Leadership Program from 2008 to 2010. Mr Tivnan holds a BA in Accounting
and Finance and an MBS in Accounting each from Dublin City University. He is
an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ireland, an Associate
of the Irish Taxation Institute and a member of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers.
Ardmore Shipping Corp currently has 997 employees.
