• 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.

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

• 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 asset value of over $1B USD• 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.• Overcame numerous logistical, legal and insurance issues to position company to be first foreign ship owner to export Condensate from United States since US export ban 40 Years prior (BW ZAMBESI – Westport Petroleum / Mitsui July 2014)• Sourced and verified business intelligence in the LPG and LNG sectors

• 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. • Shares responsibility for the training and development of a five member commercial team with AVP Lightering Houston• Implements and executes through the Atlantic Chartering & STS Team on yearly metrics related to On-Time Performance, Utilization and TCE for the fleet.

• 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 upriver movements of refined, petrochemical and specialty products.• 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• Produced pro-forma demurrage estimates and assisted in negotiating claims based on the voyage notes, recap and charter party.