Team: Advisory Board
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Greg Smith
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Greg is a Chief Engineer Unlimited who worked across various commercial industry sectors. He moved across to Yachting in 2014 and for the last 5 years, has worked in shipbuilding.
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George Self
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George is the Safety and Compliance Manager responsible for the implementation and development of operational compliance for yachts, having moved ashore from a 10 year service at sea on yachts, working both deck and interior. Her day-to-day activities focus on crew safety, and statutory compliance as well as auditing ISM/ ISPS and MLC. George’s goal…
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Steve Monk
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Steve Monk is a Royal Naval Command qualified Specialist Navigator and the Managing Director of Da Gama Maritime, a company providing the highest level of navigation support and training to the Superyacht industry. With a passion for safety, he established the Superyacht Training Group to bring together like-minded companies for onboard crew training and is…
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Alex Jones
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Alex is a qualified Master 3000 and is currently serving as Chief Officer onboard a 90m yacht. He has extensive experience having started as a deckhand and worked his way up over the past 10 + years, and can assist the team in bringing an insight into some of the activities and more yacht specific…
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Chris Andreason
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Chris started his now 40 year maritime career in the Royal Navy where he first spent more than ten years, before moving into the world of vessel trials as Navigator and subsequently Trials Master for a UK shipyard. He started his career on Superyachts in the mid nineties as Chief Mate before becoming Master, and…
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Will Godwin
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Having flown commercially for 12 years, Will is currently a 737 Captain based at BHX with Jet2.com. He is also an Army Reservist and in that role has worked in Flight Safety and Human Factors training.
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Scott Hadden
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Scott was born in Fife, Scotland in 1973 and from a very early age wanted to become a commercial pilot. However, after years of commitment to that path (he started flying at the age of 12), Scott made the difficult decision in 2001 not to pursue a flying career due to the post 9/11 employment landscape…
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Captain Don Cockrill MBE
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A chartered master mariner, Younger Brother of Trinity House in London and a Fellow of the Nautical Institute, he commenced his maritime career in 1973. Following eighteen years of a commercial seafaring career during which he progressed from cadet to master specialising in petrochemicals, he joined the Port of London Authority as a pilot in…
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Nick Hough
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Nick supports the work of the IMCA Health, Safety, Security & Environment (HSSE) Committee. He holds a NEBOSH General Certificate in occupational safety and health and is responsible for all IMCA Safety Flashes and safety statistics, and for supporting the development of safety promotional material and guidance. Before joining IMCA in January 2005, Nick had…