Board of Directors

Gary Weston has served as a Director of the Company since November 2014. Mr. Weston is currently Chairman of the Nominating and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Committee and previously served as the Chairman of the Compensation Committee. From 2004 until 2011, Mr. Weston was the Chief Executive Officer of C Transport Maritime S.A.M (“CTM”) and from 2011 until his retirement in December 2015, Executive Chairman of CTM. At the same time, he was Director and Chief Executive Officer of various affiliated companies controlled by the Ceres Group of Companies, including CBC Holdings Ltd., DryLog Ltd., Carras Ltd. and Tara Ltd. From 1998 to 2004, Mr. Weston was the Executive Chairman of H. Clarkson & Co. Ltd. and Chief Executive Officer of Clarksons PLC, the world’s largest shipbroker and the leading provider of integrated shipping services.

Mr. Weston started his career at H. Clarkson & Co. Ltd. in 1979 as a trainee shipbroker. In addition to his role at CTM, from 2006 to 2011, Mr. Weston was Chairman the Investors Committee for Global Maritime Investments, a privately-owned freight trading group. From 1992 to 2004, he was a director with the International Transport Intermediaries Club, a professional indemnity insurer of service providers in the transport and offshore industries. From 2016 to 2018, he was a director of Crystal Maritime Services (Malta) Limited and Crystal Maritime Trading (Malta) Limited, privately owned shipping companies. Since 2006, he has served as a non-executive director of the United Kingdom Freight Demurrage and Defence Association Limited, a leading provider of legal defense services in the shipping industry and from April 2020 as a non-executive director of Wah Kwong Transport Holdings Limited, a privately-owned shipping company.

Mr. Weston is a member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport. He received a B.Sc. in Maritime Studies from the University of Wales, in Cardiff. The Board of Directors selected Mr. Weston to serve as a Director because it believes that Mr. Weston brings valuable management and financial experience to the Board of Directors, including extensive experience with commercial and technical ship managers. Mr. Weston has a strong operations background and has experience with vessel acquisition opportunities.