A NEW ERA FOR OLYMPIC SHIPPING & MANAGEMENT S.A.

George Karageorgiou is its new President and CEO

Since 1 January 2017, George Karageorgiou is the new president and CEO of Olympic Shipping and Management S.A

Karageorgiou began his career in business and shipping at Kassos Maritime (1990). He then worked for Stelmar Shipping Limited (established in 1992), where he held various executive positions, and was also a member of the Board of Directors.

During his time at Stelmar, Karageorgiou was also a founding member and Executive Director of the company easyGroup Ltd (1995-2005), while he also was director of several of its subsidiary companies. He was a co-founder of the Greek shipping company Globus Maritime Limited (2006-2016). He was also General Director, and in 2011 he became President of its Board of Directors. 

Karageorgiou holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering. He also did post-graduate studies in Ocean Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, and in Shipping Trade and Finance at City University Business School.

In this new era for Olympic Shipping and Management S.A. Karageorgiou succeeds Giannis P. Ioannidis, whom the Board of Directors would like to thank profoundly for his valuable services over many years.

In Brief: Olympic Shipping & Management S.A.

OLYMPIC SHIPPING AND MANAGEMENT S.A. is the company that manages the vessels owned by the Onassis Foundation. It is the successor of OLYMPIC MARITIME, founded in 1952 in Paris by Aristotle Onassis, and operated from Monaco until the early 1990s. Since then the company was moved to Athens, and particularly in Palaio Faliro. It manages a fleet of 17 double-hulled tankers and 10 bulk tankers, with a total carrying capacity of 5.500.000 DWT.