Arthur Bensler joined our Board of Directors as Chairman on June 12, 2013.
He has served as our Corporate Secretary from 2007 to September 2014 and as
General Counsel to the Company since its inception. Mr. Bensler is Executive
Vice President and General Counsel of Teekay Corporation and President of Teekay
Shipping (Canada) Ltd. He has more than 15 years of experience in the shipping
industry, joining Teekay Corporation in 1998 as General Counsel. He was promoted
to the position of Vice President and General Counsel in 2002, became the Corporate
Secretary of Teekay Corporation in 2003 and was further promoted to Executive
Vice President and General Counsel in 2006. Mr. Bensler served as Committee
Director of the Britannia Steamship Insurance Association Limited from January
2005 to April 2010 and has served as a Committee Director of The Standard Club
Ltd., a mutual insurance association, since November 2010, where he is also
a member of the Nominating & Governance Committee and the Strategy Committee.
Kevin Mackay was appointed as our President & Chief Executive Officer on
June 20, 2014 and also leads a global network of commercial offices in Asia,
Europe and North America, with the responsibility of marketing Teekay’s
fleet of conventional tankers. Mr. Mackay joined Teekay from Phillips 66, where
he headed the global marine business unit, responsible for all aspects of marine
transportation, including chartering, operations, demurrage, strategy and freight
trading, business improvement and marine risk management. He held a similar
role as the General Manager, Commercial Marine at ConocoPhillips from 2009 to
2012 before the formation of Phillips 66. Mr. Mackay started his career working
for Neptune Orient Lines in Singapore from 1991 to 1995. He then joined AET
Inc. Limited (AET) (formerly American Eagle Tankers Inc.) in Houston, where
he ultimately was the Regional Director - Americas, Senior Vice President, responsible
for AET’s business in the Americas. Mr. Mackay holds a B.Sc. (Econ) Honours
from the London School of Economics & Political Science.
Vincent Lok has served as our Chief Financial Officer since October 2007. Mr.
Lok has served as Teekay Corporation’s Executive Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer since July 2007. He has held a number of finance and accounting
positions with Teekay Corporation, including Controller from 1997 until his
promotions to the positions of Vice President, Finance in March 2002 and Senior
Vice President and Treasurer in February 2004. He was subsequently appointed
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in November 2006. Mr. Lok
also serves as the Chief Financial Officer of our Manager. Prior to joining
Teekay Corporation, Mr. Lok worked as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte &
Touche LLP. Mr. Lok is also a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Richard J.F. Bronks joined our Board of Directors in January 2008. Mr. Bronks
retired from Goldman Sachs in 2007, where he held a number of positions during
his career. From 2004 until March 2007, Mr. Bronks was responsible for building
Goldman Sachs’ equity, bond and loan financing business in emerging markets,
including Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, the Former Soviet Union, the Middle
East, Turkey and Africa. From 1999 to 2004, Mr. Bronks served as a co-head of
Goldman’s global commodity business, engaged in the trading of commodities
and commodity derivatives, and the shipping and storage of physical commodities.
From 1993 to 1999, Mr. Bronks served as a member of Goldman’s oil derivatives
business in London and New York. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Mr. Bronks
was employed by BP Oil International, in both its oil derivatives business and
its crude oil trading business.
William Lawes joined our Board of Directors in January 2008. In January 2014,
Mr. Lawes also joined the board of Tanker Investments Ltd., an Oslo Stock Exchange
listed company established by Teekay Corporation and Teekay Tankers and served
as Chairman of the Audit Committee in 2014. Mr. Lawes served as a Managing Director
and a member of the Europe, Africa and Middle East Regional Senior Management
Board of JPMorgan Chase and its predecessor banks based in London from 1987
until 2002. His functional responsibility was Chief Credit and Counterparty
Risk Officer for the region. Prior to joining JPMorgan Chase, he was Global
Head of Shipping Finance at Grindlays Bank. Mr. Lawes is qualified as a member
of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland. Since March 2005, Mr.
Lawes has served as a Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Diana
Shipping Inc., a global provider of shipping transportation services. Prior
to his retirement in 2010, Mr. Lawes was a trustee and Chairman of the Finance
and Audit Committee of Care International UK, a global humanitarian charity,
for 12 years.
Bjorn Moller served as our Chief Executive Officer from October 2007 until March
2011. Mr. Moller also served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of
Teekay Corporation from April 1998 until March 2011. He also served as Vice
Chairman and Director of Teekay GP L.L.C. from when it was formed in November
2004, and Vice Chairman and Director of Teekay Offshore GP L.L.C. from when
it was formed in August 2006, in each case until March 2011. Mr. Moller continues
to serve as a Director of Teekay Tankers and Teekay Corporation and is a director
of Kattegat Limited, the parent company of Resolute Investments, Ltd., the largest
shareholder of Teekay Corporation. Mr. Moller has over 35 years of experience
in the shipping industry, and served as Chairman of the International Tanker
Owners Pollution Federation from 2006 to 2013. He served in senior management
positions with Teekay Corporation for more than 20 years, and led Teekay’s
overall operations from January 1997, following his promotion to the position
of Chief Operating Officer. Prior to that, Mr. Moller headed Teekay Corporation’s
global chartering operations and business development activities.
Richard T. du Moulin joined our Board of Directors in December 2007. Mr. du
Moulin is currently the President of Intrepid Shipping L.L.C., a position he
has held since he founded Intrepid Shipping in 2002. From 1998 to 2002, Mr.
du Moulin served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Marine Transport
Corporation. Mr. du Moulin is a member of the Board of Trustees and Chairman
of the Seamens Church Institute of New York and New Jersey. Mr. du Moulin currently
serves as a Director of Tidewater Inc. and is on the board of Pangaea Logistics
Solutions, Ltd., a dry bulk shipping company. Mr. du Moulin served as Chairman
of Intertanko, the leading trade organization for the tanker industry, from
1996 to 1999 and served as a director of Globe Wireless L.L.C.
Teekay Tankers Ltd currently has 25 employees.
