Mr. van Lacum was appointed a director in 2018. With more than 25 years of shipping industry experience and a market-leading position as an investor and financier in commercially viable decarbonization solutions for the maritime industry, Mr. van Lacum specializes in structuring and arranging principal investments and joint ventures, debt capital market solutions, securitizations, and mezzanine and senior debt facilities. In 2019, Mr. van Lacum co-founded Amsterdam-based Prow Capital, where he serves as CEO, overseeing a €400+ million private debt fund focused on reducing emissions in the shipping industry. He is also a co-founder and partner of Transportation Capital Group (“TCG”), which manages private equity and debt portfolios across transportation verticals. Prior to that, he served as Director of Fortis Bank in the US, where he held responsibility for equity investments and structuring debt instruments across a diversified set of transportation asset classes, in addition to M&A. Mr. van Lacum has served on the Board of multiple public and private companies, currently including CS Leasing, one of the world’s leading tank container leasing companies, and AM Flow Holdings, an adaptive manufacturing automation company. Mr. van Lacum holds a Master’s Degree in Economics from the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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. Wils was appointed a director in 2014. With more than 40 years of experience in the sector, Mr. Wils has an extensive background in shipping and logistics, including as an executive board member of leading global container liner company CMA CGM. Mr. Wils joined the CMA CGM group in 1996 as managing director of the previously state-owned shipping company, CGM, on its acquisition by CMA. He was appointed an executive board member of CMA CGM in 2001 on the merger of CMA and CGM, until his retirement in 2008. From 1992 to 1996, he was chairman and CEO of Sceta International, later renamed Geodis International, a leading European logistics and freight forwarding company. He was the managing director of the shipping group Delmas Vieljeux, which he joined in 1971, from 1982 to 1992. Mr. Wils, who is a graduate of HEC Paris and of Paris University, was appointed Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1995 and chaired the French Shipowners Association from 1998 to 2000.

Captain Neugeborn was appointed a director in 2022. He is a Master Mariner with more than 40 years of hands-on experience in the shipping industry, spanning across containers, bulk carriers, tankers, car carriers, and reefer vessels. He currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Aquarii Shipping Solutions Ltd., a private shipping consultant company. Prior to joining the Board of GSL, from 2010 to 2022 he served as Manager of the Chartering and Sale and Purchase Division at ZIM Integrated Shipping Services Ltd. Prior to that, Captain Neugeborn served in a variety of senior management roles, including as Manager of the Shipping Commercial Division at XT Shipping Ltd. (formerly Ofer Shipping), and Managing Director of Zim-Ofer Shipbrokers. Before that, he served as Commanding Captain onboard ocean-going vessels for Louis Dreyfus Armatures Shipping from 1994 to 1998.