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Terje W. Cook, Bunker Manager, Grieg Star Shipping
Terje W. Cook joined Star Shipping in 1974 and has been involved with bunker purchase ever since, from 1984 as Manager. He has experience from sea, working in the engine room. He has been a council member of IBIA since the start of the organization, but resigned at the GA in 2007.Terje has been a member of the IBC Programme Committee since 2003. |
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Carolyn Comer, Global Sales Manager, Shell Trading – Marine Fuels
Carolyn joined Shell in 1998, having previously been MD of chemical distribution company in the UK. Since then she has done a variety of roles in Shell’s Global Commercial business, including in sales, operations and business development. She has undertaken postings in London, Ireland and Norway (as GM of Commercial Fuels in the UK & Nordics). She moved to the Netherlands in 2011, where she runs Shell’s Marine Fuels business, leading a team of team of account managers based in Europe, Asia, Middle East and the Americas. |
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Chrysanthos Chrysanthou, Technical Manager, Louis Cruises
After graduating from Newcastle University in 1998, Chrysanthos Chrysanthou (BEng, MPhil) joined Louis Cruises (a leading cruise company in the Mediterranean) in 1999. Apart from fleet management, part of his responsibilities includes monitoring of fuel quality, claims handling, implementing fuel efficient practices and improving environmental performance/compliance of vessels.
Chrysanthou is a member of the Maritime Institute of Eastern Mediterranean, a non-profit institute recently established in Cyprus aiming to meet the challenges faced by the Maritime Industry paying a special attention on the growing demand for Education, Research and Innovation in this sector. This is Chrysanthou's first year as a member of the IBC Programme Committe. |
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Erik Bratterud,Commercial Manager - Norse Bunker/World Fuel Services
Erik Bratterud joined the bunker industry in 1982 and was co founder of Norse Bunker in 1983 where he has been since. In 2001 the company was sold to World Fuel Services and integrated in their global network of offices. Since then Erik has been the office manager and responsible for the Norwegian market. Erik has been a member of the IBC Programme Committee since 1985.
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Dax van Diepen, Quality Manager, Maersk Oil Trading
Dax finished the Maritime college of Rotterdam as a Maritime officer (BSc) with a specialisation in Engineering in 1995. He has sailed for almost 5 years Joined the Van der Giessen-de Noord shipyard in 1999 as automation/commissioning engineer. Mostly involved with the engineering and commissioning of the vessels automated systems including the handover to class, flag state and customer. After the shipyard closed in 2004 due to economical reasons he joined Total Lubmarine, where he became the Technical manager for Europe. In 2008 he joined Maersk Oil Trading as a quality manager. Dealing with all quality and quantity claims arising form the bunkering activity performed for the whole AP Møller-Maersk group, mostly responsible for the disputes rising from Europe to Asia, ensuring to minimizing our exposure. This is the second year Dax is a member of the IBC Committee.
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Rolv Petter Amdam, professor, BI Norwegian Business School
Rolv Petter is Professor of Business history, and Dean of BI's Executive Programmes. He has lectured on international management at maritime programmes at NTU in Singapore and at Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Martime Transport, in Alexandria. He is also teaching at BI's bachelorprogramme in shipping. Amdam's research focueses on how Norwegian martime firms intergrate with the local maritime cluster internationally.
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Sowmi Krishnamurthy, General Manager, Europe, Africa & Middle East ExxonMobil Marine Fuels and Director of ExxonMobil Marine Limited.
Sowmi has a Ph.D in Chemical Engineering from University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA and an M.B.A from Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Prior to assuming his present position, Sowmi has held a variety of positions in Research & Development, Supply & Trading and Marketing & Refi ning Planning within
ExxonMobil in USA and Singapore. exxonmobilmarinefuels.com
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Robin Meech, Managing Director, Marine and Energy Consulting
Robin Meech is Managing Director of Marine and Energy Consulting, an independent consultancy practice focusing on the marine industry with an emphasis on the transport of energy. He has a particular interest in the bunker sector where he has undertaken assignments for ship owners, the Major Oil Companies as well as independent traders and national oil companies. He advises clients in the bunker sector on environmental issues, forming alliances, purchasing strategies, organisation, new business ventures, credit insurance, logistics, IT systems and e-business. He manages a company that advises ship operators on the selection, financing and risk minimisation of abatement technologies. Robin has also been a director of an independent tanker company based in Norway where his responsibilities included managing the purchasing of bunkers. Robin Meech is co-author of “Outlook for Bunker Fuel Oil and Heavy Fuel Oil to 2030” published this year. Robin has been a member of the IBC Programme Committee since 2007.
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