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Next Generation Americas and ROW

30th birthday, and today the company
has five tanker pools, covering about
90 vessels owned by 32 different
companies.

The company has just announced
plans to branch into dry bulk, and is
establishing a geared dry bulk vessel
pool with TBS Ocean Logistics, adding
a further 20 ships to vessels under its
control.

Mr Ognibene started his career
in 1995 at shipbroker Seabrokers, a
Clarkson subsidiary, and has also
worked at New York-based Poten &
Partners, where he was managing
director of projects and pools.

He is judged as ‘one to watch’,
with expectations that his swift
ascendancy at Heidmar is the first step
in a long and distinguished career.

The US-based executive appears to have become an influential
player on the capital markets shipping landscape

US
Jason P Klopfer

ONE of the largest and strongest product
tanker plays awaiting an initial public
offering window at the moment is the
Navig8 group of companies, with its
young, US-based executive Jason Klopfer
at the heart of its growth and success.

Mr Klopfer cut his chartering teeth
at shipbrokers Poten & Partners as
head of the spot tanker desk and before
that, McQuilling, where he began as a
shipbroker.

He has also managed tanker
pools for now defunct Overseas
Shipping Group before joining Navig8,
where he was already well known
to founders, former Glencore freight
derivatives trader Nicolas Busch and
the commodities group’s shipping head
Gary Brockleby. The pair started what is
now the Navig8 group of companies 12
years ago.

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