Angeliki Frangou has been our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since our
inception. Ms. Frangou has also been Chairman and CEO of Navios Maritime Holdings
Inc. (NYSE: NM) — our sponsor — since August 2005. In addition,
Ms. Frangou has been the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Navios Maritime
Partners L.P. (NYSE: NMM), an affiliated limited partnership, since August 2007
and the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Navios Maritime Midstream Partners
L.P. (NYSE: NAP), an affiliated limited partnership, since October 2014. Ms.
Frangou has been the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Navios South American
Logistics Inc. since its inception in December 2007. Previously, Ms. Frangou
served as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of International Shipping
Enterprises Inc., which acquired Navios Holdings. From 1990 until August 2005,
Ms. Frangou was the Chief Executive Officer of Maritime Enterprises Management
S.A. and its predecessor company, which specialized in the management of dry
cargo vessels. Ms. Frangou is the Chairman of IRF European Finance Investments
Ltd., listed on the SFM of the London Stock Exchange. Ms. Frangou is Member
of the Board of the United Kingdom Mutual Steam Ship Assurance Association (Bermuda)
Limited, Vice Chairman of China Classification Society Mediterranean Committee,
a member of the International General Committee and of the Hellenic and Black
Sea Committee of Bureau Veritas, as well as a member of Greek Committee of Nippon
Kaiji Kyokai. Since February 2015, Ms. Frangou has been a Member of the Board
of the Union of Greek Shipowners. Since July 2013, Ms. Frangou has been a Member
of the Board of Visitors of the Columbia University School of Engineering and
Applied Science. Ms. Frangou received a bachelor’s degree in mechanical
engineering, summa cum laude, from Fairleigh Dickinson University and a master’s
degree in mechanical engineering from Columbia University.
Leonidas Korres has been our Chief Financial Officer since April 2010, and
previously our Senior Vice President for Business Development from January 2010.
Mr. Korres served as the Special Secretary for Public Private Partnerships in
the Ministry of Economy and Finance of the Hellenic Republic from October 2005
until November 2009. Prior to that, from April 2004 to October 2005, Mr. Korres
served as Special Financial Advisor to the Minister of Economy and Finance of
the Hellenic Republic and as liquidator of the Organizational Committee for
the Olympic Games Athens 2004 S.A. From 2001 to 2004, Mr. Korres worked as a
senior financial advisor for KPMG Corporate Finance. From October 2007 until
January 2010, Mr. Korres was a member of the board of directors of Navios Partners.
From May 2003 to December 2006, Mr. Korres was Chairman of the Center for Employment
and Entrepreneurship, a non-profit company. From June 2008 until February 2009,
Mr. Korres served as a board member and audit committee member of Hellenic Telecommunications
Organization S.A. (trading on the Athens and New York Stock Exchanges). From
June 2004 until November 2009, Mr. Korres served on the board of Hellenic Olympic
Properties S.A., which was responsible for operating the Olympic venues. Mr.
Korres earned his bachelor’s degree in economics from the Athens University
of Economics and Business and his master’s degree in finance from the
University of London.
Vasiliki Papaefthymiou has been our Secretary since our inception. Ms. Papaefthymiou
has also served as Executive Vice President — Legal and a member of Navios
Holdings’ Board of Directors since August 25, 2005, and prior to that
was a member of the Board of Directors of ISE. Ms. Papaefthymiou has also served
as General Counsel for Maritime Enterprises Management S.A. since October 2001,
where she has advised the company on shipping, corporate and finance legal matters.
Ms. Papaefthymiou provided similar services as General Counsel to Franser Shipping
from October 1991 to September 2001. Ms. Papaefthymiou received her undergraduate
degree from the Law School of the University of Athens and a master’s
degree in maritime law from Southampton University in the United Kingdom. Ms.
Papaefthymiou is admitted to practice law before the Bar in Piraeus, Greece.
Anna Kalathakis has been a member of our Board of Directors and Senior Vice
President — Legal Risk Management since May 2010. Ms. Kalathakis has been
Chief Legal Risk Officer from since November 2012 and Senior Vice President
— Legal Risk Management of Navios Holdings from December 2005 until October
2012. Before joining Navios Holdings, Ms. Kalathakis was the General Manager
of the Greek office of A Bilbrough & Co. Ltd. (Managers of the London Steam-Ship
Owners’ Mutual Insurance Association Limited, the “London P&I
Club”) and an Associate Director of the London P&I Club where she
gained experience in the handling of liability and contractual disputes in both
the dry and tanker shipping sectors (including collisions, oil pollution incidents,
groundings, etc.). She previously worked for a U.S. maritime law firm in New
Orleans, having qualified as a lawyer in Louisiana in 1995, and also served
in a similar capacity for a London maritime law firm. She qualified as a solicitor
in England and Wales in 1999 and was admitted to the Piraeus Bar in Greece,
in 2003. She received a bachelor’s degree International Relations from
Georgetown University and holds a master of business administration degree from
European University in Brussels and a juris doctor degree from Tulane Law School.
George Galatis has served as a member of our Board of Directors since July 2010.
He is currently the Executive Vice President — Product Development at
Demo Pharmaceutical Industry having served as a Senior Vice President —
Project Development since 1999. Mr Galatis also served as a technical manager
in Pharmaceutical Industry Projects at Telos Consulting Ltd. of London from
1994 to 1999. Previously, Mr. Galatis served as an engineer, technical manager
and product manager at various shipping companies in the United States and the
U.K. Mr. Galatis is a mechanical engineer and holds a bachelor’s degree
in mechanical engineering and master’s degree in robotics from the University
of Newcastle upon Tyne. Mr. Galatis is also a member of our Nominating Committee
and is an independent director.
John Koilalous has been a member of our Board of Directors since June 2008.
Mr. Koilalous began his career in the shipping industry in the City of London
in 1949, having worked for various firms both in London and Piraeus. He entered
the adjusting profession in 1969, having worked for Francis and Arnold, a maritime
insurance adjusting firm, for 18 years and then with Pegasus Adjusting Services
Ltd., of which he was the founder and, until his retirement at the end of 2008,
the Managing Director. He still remains active in an advisory capacity on matters
of marine insurance claims. Mr. Koilalous is also a member of our Audit Committee
and is an independent director.
Brigitte Noury has been a member of our Board of Directors since May 2010. Ms.
Noury served from March 2002 until December 2009 as Director of Corporate &
Investment Banking Asset & Recovery Management — Europe for Societe
Generale. She also served from June 1989 until February 2002 as Head of Shipping
at Societe Generale. In addition, she served as Vice President — Shipping
at Banque Indosuez from 1987 to 1989. Before that Ms. Noury served as Financial
Controller at Banque Internationale pour l’Afrique Occidentale (later
acquired by BNP Paribas). Ms. Noury received a master of economic sciences degree
and a diploma in business administration from the University of Dijon. Ms. Noury
is also a member of our Audit Committee and Nominating Committee and is an independent
director.
Ted C. Petrone has been a member of our Board of Directors since our inception
and was our President from our inception until December 2014. He has also been
a director of Navios Holdings since May 2007, and served as President of Navios
Corporation from September 2006 until December 2014. He currently serves as
Navios Corporation’s Vice Chairman, a position he has held since December
2014. Mr. Petrone has served in the maritime industry for 36 years, 33 of which
he has spent with Navios Holdings. After joining Navios Holdings as an assistant
vessel operator, Mr. Petrone worked there in various operational and commercial
positions. For the last 15 years, Mr. Petrone has been responsible for all the
aspects of the daily commercial activity, encompassing the trading of tonnage,
derivative hedge positions and cargoes. Mr. Petrone graduated from New York
Maritime College at Fort Schuyler with a bachelor in science degree in maritime
transportation. He has also served aboard U.S. Navy (Military Sealift Command)
tankers.
Nikolaos Veraros, CFA, has been a member of our Board of Directors since June
2008. Mr. Veraros has over 15 years of experience in shipping finance and currently
serves as a financial consultant to various shipping companies. He has also
worked as a senior equity analyst for National Securities, S.A., a subsidiary
of National Bank of Greece. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), a Certified
Market Maker for Derivatives in the Athens Stock Exchange, and a Certified Analyst
from the Hellenic Capital Market Commission. Mr. Veraros received his bachelor
of science degree in business administration from the Athens University of Economics
and Business, from which he graduated as valedictorian, and his master of business
administration degree in finance and accounting from the William E. Simon Graduate
School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester. Mr. Veraros
is also the Chairman of our Audit Committee and is an independent director.
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