Christopher Gomez Email & Phone Number

Houston, TX, US

Houston, Texas, US

• Led the Commercial Marine and Chartering Ops team in implementing Westlake's first marine ERP system, delivering over $2.5m in annual benefits.
• Managed commercial contracting for US Inland, Jones Act Coastwise Trade, Foreign Flag Export, Dry Cargo Salt Chartering, and Containerized Movements.
• Responsible for marine chartering and operations at Westlake, managing a $75M budget including forecasting and vendor management
• Directly responsible for changed procedures, better processes, enhanced metrics and different relationships yielding $20M in direct savings over last 6 years.

Houston, Texas, US

SG

• BW PACIFIC PTE LTD
• Grew Houston office from a 1 to 4-person team focused on the CPP, DPP, EZ Chem and Vegoil market in the MR/LR1 trade across a fleet of 20 MR’s and 17 LR1’s.
• Led team through business line re-org and senior management transitions, minimizing impact to customer base and fleet revenues
• Relentless focus on identifying, developing and securing business accretive to company growth across product sectors and regions

SG

• Opened the US Office with responsibility for promoting the company’s commercial activities in the Energy, Oil and Gas Sectors in the US and Latin America
• Exercised commercial chartering authority by negotiating spot fixtures, time charters and COA’s for crude and product tanker fleet in conjunction with Singapore HQ over a fleet of 12 VLCC’s and 17 LR1’s representing an.
• Utilized corporate CRM tools for updating of customer activity globally
• Liaised our technical and commercial activities with USCG, local vendors and various NGO’s in the Americas
• Backed up chartering and commercial activities in other geographical areas as required by principals or business requirements
• Actively participated and engaged in the continuous improvement of departmental procedures through QMS.

Singapore, Singapore, SG

• Responsible for the successful deployment of between 35-40 Aframax Tankers conducting 700 voyages yearly in the Americas Fleet
• Works effectively with the AVP Operations Houston and contributes to the Global Chartering Team to achieve worldwide commercial targets.
• Coordinates with Ship Management in light of the Global Fleet Distribution, Delivery and Drydocking Schedule to capitalize on opportunities
• Build and maintain a strong working relationship with all existing and potential clients here and abroad with the view of maintaining and/or expanding business volume and portfolio with them.
• Continue to seek potential opportunities to expand regional activity by capitalizing on available spot opportunities, for both out and in-charter.
• Ensure the companies’ interest is reasonably protected in all Charter Parties and that same are gainfully executable by existing and available resources.

• Responsible for the daily co-ordination and execution of chartering strategy congruent with the Long Term Commercial Strategy developed and approved by Senior Management of SPT in the TD9 & STS trades.
• Negotiated and concluded several long term contracts with revenue between $3M - $10M per year.
• Led the commercial team during a company wide turnaround from a net loss of $9M EBITDA to positive earnings of over $11M in 15 months.
• Developed novel contract mechanisms that were adopted in future term contracts.
• Analyzed and improved specific metrics focused on making SPT profitable and the STS provider of choice for our customers in the crude, clean and LNG STS markets.
• Assisted the US Support Manager in developing the STS Supports Business in new regions and across cultural boundaries.

• IB Division (7yrs) – JA Tankers (4yrs) – Ops (2yrs) Jun 1994 – Sep 1996 / Sep 1996 – Nov 2007
• Interpreted, negotiated and produced detailed written charters from negotiation notes for all sizes of MR/Handy tankers and inland/offshore barges (ATB/ITB) in the Jones Act market, as well as trafficking inland and.
• Updated and pro-actively anticipated daily operational issues by examining problems, generating solutions and satisfying mutual interests on clean, crude and chemical ships and barges
• Worked with our customer base to establish, monitor and fulfill contract specific metrics with Fortune 50 customers to meet their ongoing supply chain requirements
• Developed relationships with counterparties and 3rd party vendors to generate competitive intelligence surrounding daily market activity as well as larger trends in the field
• Generated/Interpreted Voyage Orders from verbal communications in conjunction with a team of senior brokers

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Graduate Degree

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Maritime Administration