Team: Ambassador

James started his seafaring career in 2011, first in the yachting industry and then progressing through the deck department to the rank of Second Officer and relief Chief Officer. He has worked through his yachting tickets and achieved an HNC in Nautical Studies at Warsash Maritime College [United Kingdom], and has gained valuable insight into…

Owain has been in the yachting industry since the age of 19.  Coming from a seafaring family, he spent many summer holidays on commercial ships watching how it all worked from the Caribbean to Mediterranean to the good old Irish sea. He joined the RNLI at 16 back in his home village of Moelfre on Anglesey, this is…

Joanne usually sails as Chief Officer in the Offshore Industry and recently worked as DPA / QHSE Officer for a fleet of 30 vessels. Outside of her day-to-day work, Joanne is passionately involved in improving the Human Rights of seafarers, particularly addressing mental health and issues of discrimination and harassment. To improve safety and dramatically…

Clive has been a seafarer for over 45 years during which he has held command of cargo ships, cruise ships, mega-yachts and large sailing vessels. He is now the director of a professional seafarer training and certification academy in Phuket, Thailand.

Arie started a career at sea in 1993 in the Royal Dutch Navy as a watch/ops officer.  In 2001 he changed to working with juvenile delinquents on a training vessel (MV Koningin Juliana) for 8 years and in 2008 he started pilot training while working on tugboats and dynamic positioning (DP) vessels. Arie is an…

Özgür lives in Istanbul. He graduated from maritime school in 2002 as a deck officer. He has work experience with multinational crews on general cargo vessels, oil and chemical tankers. He came ashore and worked in the crewing department at a management company. After that he returned to sea and is still working on tankers.…

Giovanni is a Master Mariner, ISM lead auditor, a Designated Person Ashore (DPA) and certified maritime trainer with 20 years working experience in the maritime industry. He has command experience as the Master of RO-RO and container vessels and has also worked ashore as a Designated Person Ashore (DPA). He also assists maritime students prepare…

Arie has 50 years’ experience in the maritime industry of which 42 have been as a master, training master, marine manager or marine consultant.  Most of this was in the towage sector where he has trained over 1500 tug-masters, and he has overseen the establishment of towage operations in 23 ports. He is patron of…

Captain Kumar Krishnamurthy has 17 years of sea-going experience including command, followed by 13 years as a Marine Surveyor cum Loss Assessor, 4 years as Container Terminal Superintendent and currently in his 15th year as Associate Professor in AMET University, Chennai – having been Dean and Chairperson in the School of Nautical Studies. His sailing…

Located in London, Mustafa is a master mariner with 6 years on board ships and 12 years as a marine compliance and regulatory ship inspector. He was a former accredited representative to IMO for 10 years for a number of NGO and member states.

Originally a Marine Engineer by trade – Eric is the Chief Executive of the FISH Safety Foundation – www.fishsafety.org.  He has 25 years’ experience as a safety professional, assisting clients with training and consulting services across a broad spectrum of industry – ranging from Off-shore Diamond Mining and Nuclear Power to Rail and Commercial Fishing…

Henk started in 1979 as a deck boy and worked his way up to the rank of Ship’s Master, which he has now been for 20 years.  Since 2020, he has worked as a deep-sea pilot (for the North Sea area including English Channel and Dover Strait) and as a Ship’s Master for Redwise in…