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Board of Directors |
General
Hellenic Carriers’ Executive management team includes the two Executive members of the Board of Directors, CEO Ms. Fotini Karamanlis and CFO Ms. Elpida Kyriakopoulou.
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Fotini Karamanlis, Chief Executive Officer |
Ms. Karamanlis (Age 38) is responsible for strategy, vessel acquisitions, chartering and financing.
Ms. Karamanlis has 16 years shipping experience and has been with companies associated with HCL since 1999. From 1998 to 1999, Ms. Karamanlis worked on the Sale and Purchase Department of Galbraiths Shipbrokers in London and before that she practiced as a shipping lawyer with Norton Rose in London and Greece.
Ms. Karamanlis qualified as a Solicitor of the High Court of England and Wales in 1997 and is a member of the legal committee of the Association of Greek Ship-Owners. Ms. Karamanlis is an independent Non-executive Member of the Board of Directors of Piraeus Bank S.A., a company listed on the Athens Stock Exchange and a member of the Board of Directors of the Karamanlis Foundation.
Ms. Karamanlis holds a law degree from the University of Athens and a Master’s Degree (LLM) from the University of Cambridge.
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Elpida Kyriakopoulou, Chief Financial Officer |
Elpida Kyriakopoulou (Age 37), Chief Financial Officer Ms. Kyriakopoulou has been acting as Financial Reporting Manager of the Company since January 2008. In November 2009 Ms. Kyriakopoulou was appointed Chief Financial Officer of the Company. Prior to joining the Company Ms. Kyriakopoulou worked as Senior Auditor and then as Manager at Ernst & Young Hellas, where she signed six years audit experience in the Shipping Sector. For the period 1997 to 2001 Ms. Kyriakopoulou worked as an accountant at Goldenport Shipmanagement Ltd. She holds a degree in Maritime Studies from the University of Piraeus, Greece and is a member of the Greek Association of Certified Accountants.
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Graham Roberts, Chairman and non-executive Director |
Graham Roberts (Age 60), Chairman and Non-executive Director Graham Roberts was appointed as our Chairman on Admission. Between 2002 and 2006, Mr. Roberts was Chief Executive and main Board Director of PD Ports Plc. From that position he successfully directed PD Ports flotation in 2004 on AIM and subsequent sale to Babcock & Brown Infrastructure Limited in 2005. Prior to that, Mr. Roberts held Chief Executive posts at London Luton Airport, MTL (Merseyside Transport) Limited and Servisair plc. Mr. Roberts was also a Senior Executive at NFC plc (later renamed Exel plc) for over 25 years, and was a member of its Board from 1989 until he left the company in 1997. In total he has over 36 years experience in the transportation sector.
Mr. Roberts is a Non-executive Director of the Freight Transport Association Limited and Tees Valley Regeneration Limited (where he serves as Non-executive Chairman).
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Charlotte Stratos, Non-executive Director |
Charlotte Stratos (Age 56), Non-executive Director Ms. Stratos established in 1987 the Representative Office in Greece of Banque Indosuez which subsequently became Calyon Corporate and Investment Bank. Ms. Stratos was the Managing Director and Head of Global Greek Shipping at Calyon Corporate and Investment Bank until September 2007, a Non-executive Member of the Board of Directors of Emporiki Bank S.A. until November 2008 and a member of the Board of Gyroscopic Fund Limited (a fund of hedge funds).
From 1976 to 1986, Ms. Stratos held various positions with Bankers Trust Company (now Deutsche Bank) in London and New York.
Ms. Stratos is currently a Senior Advisor to Morgan Stanley.
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Dimos Kapouniaridis, Non-executive Director |
Dimos Kapouniaridis (Age 38), Non-executive Director Mr. Kapouniaridis is a Director in the corporate finance and M&A Advisory group of Eurobank EFG Telesis Finance S.A. in Athens.
Mr. Kapouniaridis obtained a BA (major in Economics and minor in Mathematics) from Hamilton College in Clinton, NY, in 1996. He has over 12 years of investment banking experience with focus on Mergers and Acquisitions in Greece and the USA. Prior to joining EFG Eurobank Telesis Finance in 2002, he had worked for the industrial and the M&A groups of Salomon Brothers and Salomon Smith Barney in New York and Los Angeles as well as for the M&A group of Dresdner Kleinwort Benson in New York.
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