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Maria Kyratsoudi Michael Chanouzas

Maria Kyratsoudi joined Lloyd’s Register in 2009 and Michael Chanouzas joined Thomas Miller in January,
work as Global FOBAS Business Development Manag- 2017. He has both a scientific and legal academic back-
er. Her primary responsibility is to look after and ex- ground having studied microbiology and law. Michael
pand the global customer base for FOBAS as well as previously worked in London in a boutique shipping
to provide specialist technical advice on fuel quality law firm before joining the shipping litigation depart-
and on-board fuel management. Maria frequently is ment of an international law firm in Greece. He han-
invited to speak in various industry organisations dles all types of P&I claims and FD&D disputes for H1
meetings (Intertanko, Martecma etc) and other fora Members.
on fuel quality testing issues, alternative fuels Sulphur
2020 matters.
Prior to joining Lloyd’s Register, Ms. Kyratsoudi
worked as a plan approval engineer at Germanischer
Lloyd. Ms. Kyratsoudi holds an MSc in Naval Architec-
ture & Marine Engineering from the National Tech-
nical University of Athens. She combines currently her
professional life with studies for an LLM.

Faidon Tomazos Theodore Kontes

Faidon Tomazos is the founder and Managing Director Theodore Kontes is the President of Union of Cruise
of Cass Technava Maritime S.A. handling in a signifi- Ship Owners & Associated members (EEKFN), the union
cant portion of newbuilding orders placed by Greek which supports the cruise industry entirely in Greece.
owners, regularly amounting to about 15-20% of the Mr. Kontes is also the Director of Majestic International
total Greek newbuilding orders through deep rela- Cruises, responsible of the operation entirely including
tionship with shipyards in Korea, China and Japan; Marine, Technical, Hotel ops, with up to three vessels’ in
offering clients access to top management of build- operation.
ers, precise information on shipyards optimum prod- Mr. Kontes has held numerous positions in the cruise
ucts, consistent guidance on the trends and develop- industry among others as Managing Director for Phoe-
ments of key players in the shipbuilding industry, navi- nix S.A. and Festival Cruises, and subsequently as Vice
gation through shipbuilding contracts and most im- President for the same company being responsible for
portantly contribution in developing deep long lasting the newbuilding programmes
relationships between buyers and builders.
Mr. Kontes holds a MSc in Naval Architecture and Ma-
Mr. Tomazos has previously worked as a Project Man- rine Engineering from studies in Greece, U.K. and U.S.A.
ager with Technava S.A., supplying and contracting
shipbuilding and industrial equipment, and as a Mr. Kontes is a member of the Steering Committee for a
Shipbroker with Cass Maritime Ltd in London. post graduate course in the Technical University of Ath-
ens in “Ports Management”, and lectures on the subject
Mr. Tomazos holds a Diploma in Naval Architecture of cruising and tourist ports. He is also a member of the
and Marine Engineering from National Technical Uni- National Cruise Board Committee controlling cruise in-
versity of Athens, Greece, and a MSc in Shipping, dustry operation
Trade and Finance from Cass Business School, London,
UK. Mr. Kontes has served his services and was in the board
list of Piraeus municipality in the last elections. He has
received various awards in shipping during his career.
Mr. Kontes is a member of various committees technical
as well as shipping in general.