Michael has spent more than 30 years within the global maritime industry.

Prior to founding Vannin Maritime, Michael has held management and commercial positions with both stock exchange listed and private owned shipping companies. The last decades predominantly within the crude oil, chemical and product tanker markets, but with past experience within dry-cargo, container, LPG & LNG as well.

Past employments within a variety of shipping companies, such as ship owners, time-charter operators, maritime consultancy, a world-leading chemicals company, shipbrokers, and an oil trading company.

Shipping educated in Denmark and completed a management programme at INSEAD. Broad international experience from positions held in Denmark, France, Germany, Belgium, Norway & presently the Isle of Man.

Declan has over 15 years experience of being a CFO of private equity and stock exchange listed companies, in maritime and other sectors.

Declan has raised debt and equity in both public and private markets, and has considerable experience of balance sheet and capital restructuring. This has included the setting up a variety of ship ownership structures across various jurisdictions and sourcing debt for ship owners.

Prior to Vannin Maritime Declan was CFO for an AIM-listed technology group and before that spent 6 years within V.Group as CFO for V.Ships Capital and V.Ships Financial. His early career was spent with KPMG followed by various finance positions within blue-chip companies.

Declan is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accounts in England & Wales and also holds an honours degree in Economics.

Anja has more than 25 years’ experience working in various countries for well-reputed organisations, in high-level Administrative positions.

Prior to Vannin Maritime Anja come with more than 7 years experience in the maritime industry.  Other past employment includes a major energy and commodities company based in the Middle East as well as flag carrier airline working out of Europe.

Graduated from Copenhagen Business School in Denmark with a Financial degree and more recently she obtained a distinction in Shipping Economics and Operations from Cambridge Academy of Transport, United Kingdom.

Gopi Ram has over 40 years of experience in shipping. This includes 20 years sailing onboard merchant navy vessels as a marine engineer, including 8 years as chief engineer, as well as over 20 years of marine experience in on-shore positions. Gopi has sailed on or managed many different types of vessels, including bulk carriers, crude tankers, product tankers, chemical tankers, and gas carriers. Over the last years, Gopi has focused on looking after financial investors’ interests by managing the relationship between the funds and third-party ship managers.

Prior to Vannin Maritime Gopi held high-level management positions at Accord Ship Management, Eurasia, Bernard Schulte Shipmanagement, and W-O Group.

Gopi holds a graduate degree in electrical engineering from the University of Kerala, India.