Mr. Youroukos is our Executive Chairman, and played a pivotal role in the 2018 strategic combination of Poseidon Containers, a containership owner he had built in collaboration with a large US private equity firm, with Global Ship Lease. Mr. Youroukos is a self-made shipowner, and also serves as Managing Director of Technomar, an internationally recognized ship management company with specialized expertise managing ships in both the containership and dry bulk sectors, which he founded in 1994. Mr. Youroukos has negotiated and executed over 400 secondhand and newbuilding vessel transactions, including third party workouts executed in close collaboration with leading shipping banks. Mr. Youroukos has long-established relationships at the highest levels with our liner company customers; serves as Chairman of the Hellenic Advisory Committee of International classification society, RINA, and Deputy Secretary of the Union of Greek Shipowners; and holds a Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering from University College London and a Master in Engineering from Brunel University.

Mr. Lister is our Chief Executive Officer. He was a member of the senior management team that took Global Ship Lease public in 2008 and managed the strategic combination with Poseidon Containers in 2018. Mr. Lister has served as Chief Commercial Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and architect of the Company’s commercially-focused ESG and decarbonization strategies. He has considerable experience sourcing, structuring, and financing deals; raising capital in the public and private markets; optimizing our service offering to meet the needs of our liner customers, including collaborative investments to improve vessel fuel efficiency and reduce emissions; and leveraging technology to drive value. Prior to joining Global Ship Lease, Mr. Lister was a Senior Vice President at specialist transport asset financier DVB Bank. Before that, he worked for a large German financier and ship owning group as Director of Business Development. Mr. Lister also has over a decade of experience working for liner shipping companies and their agents in strategic, commercial, and operational roles. Mr. Lister graduated from Durham University with a Bachelor of Science, and holds an MBA from INSEAD.

Mr. Psaropoulos became our Chief Financial Officer in November 2018 and has extensive experience in financial leadership, raising more than $5 billion of finance and other senior executive positions. Before his current appointment as CFO, he served as Chief Financial Officer of Poseidon Containers and Technomar Shipping, Inc. from 2011 until Poseidon’s strategic combination with Global Ship Lease in 2018. In that capacity, Mr. Psaropoulos oversaw and successfully executed multiple distressed asset acquisitions, realizing material fleet growth with compelling risk-adjusted returns. Prior to Poseidon, he held other finance positions in shipping and real estate development companies. Before that, he was Financial Controller at Dolphin Capital, an AIM-listed real estate development fund, where he led and oversaw a large global team in addition to his financial responsibilities. Mr. Psaropoulos also worked as an external auditor with PricewaterhouseCoopers, covering shipping and the oil & gas industries. Mr. Psaropoulos holds a Master in Economics, with specialization in Finance and Investments, from the Athens University of Economics; and is an alumnus of the Harvard Business School programs for Leadership Development (PLDA), Corporate Governance, and Private Equity and Venture Capital.

Mr. Giannopoulos became our Chief Compliance Officer in May 2024 and has been our Head of Internal Audit since the strategic combination of Poseidon Containers and Global Ship Lease in November 2018. Prior to the that, Mr. Giannopoulos already had a wealth of experience in the industry including three years as Financial Controller at our technical manager, Technomar, and five years as Financial Controller in charge of the South American logistics arm of Navios—a major shipowning group with multiple listings on the New York Stock Exchange. From 2006 to 2010, he worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers as a senior external auditor covering the shipping and oil & gas industries. Mr. Giannopoulos is a graduate of Maritime Studies from the University of Piraeus.

Ms. Danezi has been our Company Secretary since November 2018. Ms. Danezi is also Head of the Legal Team at our technical manager, Technomar Shipping, Inc., where she has worked since 2002. In this capacity, she has extensive experience and expertise spanning across global sale & purchase transactions, insurance claim negotiation, and complex, international legal dispute resolution. From 1992 to 2002, Ms. Danezi worked as the Insurance and Claims executive for Marmaras Navigation Ltd, an owner and operator of dry bulk vessels. Ms. Danezi obtained her diploma in law from Athens University and her LLM Master’s Degree, specializing in Maritime Law, from the University of Southampton.