People: Excel Maritime Carriers Ltd (EXM)

EXM on New York Consolidated

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24 May 2013
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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position

Gabriel Panayotides

 57 2008 Chairman of the Board, President

Pavlos Kanellopoulos

 44 2010 Chief Financial Officer

Ismini Panayotides

 29 2006 Business Development Officer

Hans-Juergen Mende

 69 2008 Non-Independent Director

Apostolos Kontoyannis

 64 2005 Independent Director

Evangelos Macris

 61 2005 Independent Director

Frithjof Platou

 74 2005 Independent Director

Trevor Williams

 69 2008 Independent Director
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Biographies

Name Description

Gabriel Panayotides

 Mr. Gabriel Panayotides serves as Chairman of the Board and President of Excel Maritime Carriers Ltd. He has been the Chairman of the Board since February 1998. Mr. Panayotides has participated in the ownership and management of ocean going vessels since 1978. He is also a member of the Greek Committee of Bureau Veritas, an international classification society. He holds a Bachelors degree from the Piraeus University of Economics. Mr. Panayotides is also a member of the Board of Directors of D/S Torm. Mr. Panayotides acted as the Com­pa­ny's Chief Executive Officer from February 2008 to April 2008.

Pavlos Kanellopoulos

 Mr. Pavlos Dimitrios Kanellopoulos is Chief Financial Officer of Excel Maritime Carriers Ltd., since April 2010. Mr. Kanellopoulos has 16 years of expe­rience in banking and finance positions, mostly at a senior level. He started his career in the International Ban­king Division of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi in London. Since 2003, Mr. Kanellopoulos held CFO positions with companies in the manufacturing and TMT sectors, most recently as Group CFO at Forthnet SA, the alter­native telecom and pay-TV operator in Greece. Mr. Kanellopoulos has studied at the Athens University of Eco­no­mics, the University of Warwick and the London School of Economics and holds a BSc and MSc (Econ).

Ismini Panayotides

 Ms. Ismini Panayotides is Business Development Officer of Excel Maritime Carriers Ltd. She has been Business Development Officer at Excel Maritime Carriers Ltd. since March 2006 and Secretary of the Board of Directors since September 2008. She completed her studies in 2005, and has been working intermittently with her undergraduate and graduate studies in the chartering and operations departments of Excel Maritime Carriers Ltd. as well as in the management of Maryville Maritime Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Excel, since 1999. Ms. Panayotides holds an undergraduate (BA) degree from the School of Management, Boston University (2004), and a Master of Science (MSc) in Shipping Tra­de and Finance from City University, Cass Business School, in London (2005).

Hans-Juergen Mende

 Mr. Hans-Juergen Mende is Non-Independent Director of Excel Maritime Carriers Ltd. He has been a non-independent member of the Board since April 2008 and was formerly a director of Quintana. Mr. Mende also serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. and is a director of Foundation Coal Holdings, Inc., both of which are coal companies. Since 1986, when he co-founded AMCI International, Inc., or AMCI, a mining and trading company, he has served as AMCI's President and Chief Ope­rating Officer. Prior to founding AMCI, Mr. Mende was employed by the Thyssen Group, one of the Ger­­man multinational companies with interests in steel making and general heavy industrial production, in various se­­nior executive positions. At the time of his departure from Thyssen Group, Mr. Mende was President of its inter­na­­tional trading company.

Apostolos Kontoyannis

 Mr. Apostolos Kontoyannis is Independent Director of Excel Maritime Carriers Ltd. He has served as a Director since July 2005. He is the Chairman of Investments and Finance Ltd., a financial consultancy firm he founded in 1987, that specializes in financial and structuring issues relating to the Greek maritime industry, with offices in Piraeus and London. Previously, he was employed by Chase Manhattan Bank N.A. in Frankfurt (Corporate Bank), London (Head of Shipping Finance South Western European Region) and Piraeus (Manager, Ship Finance Group) from 1975 to 1987. Mr. Kontoyannis holds a bachelors degree in Finance and Marketing and an M.B.A. in Finance from Boston University.

Evangelos Macris

 Mr. Evangelos Macris is Independent Director of Excel Maritime Carriers Ltd. He has served as a Director since July 2005. He is a member of the Bar Association of Athens and is the founding partner of Evangelos S. Macris Law Office, a Piraeus based office specializing in Shipping Law. He holds a degree in Economics and Political Science from the Pantion University in Athens and a Law Degree from the University of Athens, as well as a post graduate de­­gree in Shipping Law from the University of London, University College.

Frithjof Platou

 Mr. Frithjof Stoud Platou is Independent Director of Excel Maritime Carriers Ltd. He has served as a Director since July 2005. He has experience in shipping and project finance, ship broking, ship agency and tra­ding and has served on the Boards of several companies in the U.K. and Norway. Since 1984, he has managed his own financial consulting and advisory company, Stoud & Co Limited, specializing in corporate and project finance for the shipping, offshore oil & gas and various other industries. He was head of the shipping and offshore depar­t­ments at Den Norske Creditbank and Nordic Bank, as well as at American Express Bank. Mr. Platou holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of Geneva, speaks and writes fluent Norwegian, English, French and Ger­­man, has a reasonable knowledge of Spanish and a basic understanding of Japanese.

Trevor Williams

 Mr. Trevor J. Williams is Independent Director of Excel Maritime Carriers Ltd. He has served as a Director of the Company from November 1988 to April 2008. In September 2008, Mr. Williams was elected to the Board once again. Mr. Williams is a Chartered Accountant and started his shipping career with the Anglo Norness Shipping Group in 1966 and subsequently worked for Mobil Oil Corp and the Mundogas Group of companies as the Chief Financial Officer from 1972 until 1985. Mundogas was a principal owner of LPG vessels trading worldwide. From 1985 until March 31, 2011, Mr. Williams was engaged as President and Dire­ctor of Consolidated Services Limited, a Ber­muda-based firm providing management services to the shipping indu­stry. Mr. Williams is retained by Conso­lidated Services Ltd. as an advisor on shipping matters.

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