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    Professor Dracos Vassalos

    BSc, MBA, PhD, CEng, FRINA, FIMarEST

    Chairman

    d.vassalos@safety-at-sea.co.uk

    Dracos is the Chairman of SafetyatSea, having previously held the role of Managing Director since the company’s inception in 1999. As well as chairing the Board Professor Vassalos is responsible for strategic business development and for the promotion of Design for Safety throughthe company’s commercial and research activities, the latter in close collaboration with and as Director of the Ship Stability Research Centre (SSRC), a world-leading Centre of Excellence in the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering of the University of Strathclyde. As University staff he is holding the Chair on Maritime Safety, served as Head of Department for 10 years (1997-2007), been Chair of the STAB Conferences and Workshops (1996-2006), Chair of the ITTC Stability Committee in Waves (1996-2002), Chair of WEGEMT (the European Association of Universities in Marine Technology 1999-2001). He has won a string of prizes and awards, including over 100 large scale research projects am outing to some £20M, is the owner of 4 patents, the author of some 400 technical publications and author/editor of 7 books/Conference proceedings. Professor Vassalos lectured world-wide promoting Design for Safety and Risk-Based Design a theme he has instigated and promulgated through SSRC. He is also the Founder and Chairman of the International Standing Committee of the “Design for Safety” Conference and of the “Risk-Based Approaches in the Maritime Industry” Workshops and a long-standing member of the UK delegation to IMO for ship stability.

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    Dr Kieran Dodworth

    BEng, PhD, MIMarEST, CEng

    Managing Director

    k.dodworth@safety-at-sea.co.uk

    Kieran is the Managing Director of SafetyatSea, a post he has held since March 2009. Previous to his current role he held the position of General Manager from 2005 and Project Manager from first joining the company in late 2001. Dr Dodworth was employed in the offshore industry prior to joining SafetyatSea, working for several consultancy firms based in the UK in the area of non-linear dynamics of offshore structures. He studied for a PhD in damaged vessel hydrodynamics at the University of Strathclyde which he achieved in 2000. His undergraduate degree was in Naval Architecture and Small crafts from the University of Strathclyde which was completed in 1995. His areas of expertise are in aero/hydrodynamics and marine structures and he is responsible for the development and technical output of the company in these areas. He has also carried out a considerable body of work in the area of seakeeping and vessel dynamics and is one of the company’s specialists in this field. He has advised clients on a number of important legal cases and carried out accident investigations on behalf of flag states for major vessel losses.

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    Dr Tom Allan

    BSc, DSc, CEng, FRINA

    Non Executive Director

    t.allan@safety-at-sea.co.uk

    Tom is a Non-Executive Director of SafetyatSea. Previous to this role he was a Director of the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency and was the former Chairman of the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) Maritime Safety Committee in addition to being the UK Permanent Representative to IMO. Dr Allan is currently Chairman of the Cruise Ship Safety Forum for the cruise industry; Chairman of the International Association of Classification Society’s (IACS) internationally formulated Independent Appeal Board; Chairman of the Lloyd’s Register Technical Committee. He is also a member of the Royal Caribbean International Maritime Safety Board. Dr Allan has a consultancy role with Pole Star Space Applications Ltd amongst others and he is a visiting Professor at, Greenwich and Dalian (China) Universities. Dr Allan has been awarded the IMO International Maritime Prize and the United States Coast Guard Distinguished Public Service Award for services to the maritime industry.

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    Dr Chris Doo

    BEng, PhD

    Offshore Business
    Development Manager

    c.doo@safety-at-sea.co.uk

    for SafetyatSea. Previous to joining SafetyatSea, in March 2010, Dr Doo has been employed in the Offshore Oil & Gas and Renewable Energies sectors where he held the role of Key Account manager for a leading specialist engineering consultancy. Since 2005 Dr Doo has been involved in Front-end, development and operations projects across the supply chain working with Operators, contractors and vendors in the fields of Process and Flow Assurance, Technical Safety, Detailed Design and Dynamic Analysis.

    Prior to 2005 Dr. Doo completed his PhD in the field of Marine propulsion systems at University of Strathclyde which he achieved in 2004. His undergraduate degree, completed at University of Glasgow, was in Aerospace Engineering where he specialised in the area of aerodynamics of re-entry vehicles. Between degrees Dr. Doo spent time as a contractor for Rolls-Royce where he completed a number of projects at graduate level.

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    Tomasz Grzes

    MEng

    Branch Technical Manager

    t.grzes@safety-at-sea.co.uk

    Tomasz is the Branch Technical Manager for SafetyatSea Oddział w Polsce. Tomasz has graduated with MEng from Technical University of Gdansk in 1999. His areas of expertise gained in Gdynia Shipyard (Poland) and in several consultancy offices based in Poland. He was worked on a large number of container vessels, car carriers and other types of ships in the full extend of design process. He was responsible for stability performance evaluation, hull lines designing and theoretical documentation from the initial design to the delivery of the vessel. He has carried out number of inclining experiments. At SafetyatSea he has been involved for over 5 years in initial design stability evaluation of yachts, car carriers and cruise vessels. In relation to the latter, he has been carrying out advanced evacuation analysis, damage motion analysis, inclining experiments and stability work aimed at the assessment of SOLAS’2009 probabilistic stability regulations in various concept ship designs. Tomasz is responsible for the technical output of SafetyatSea’s Gdynia office.

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    Dr Luis Guarin

    MEng, PhD

    Director, Safety Engineering

    l.guarin@safety-at-sea.co.uk

    Luis is the Director of Safety Engineering at SafetyatSea, a post he has held since March 2009. Previous to his current role he held the position of Project Manager from 2006 and Project Engineer from first joining the company in 2002. Dr Guarin studied for a PhD in ships’ seakeeping and green sea loading in extreme sea conditions at the University of Strathclyde, which he achieved in 2002. His involvement with the University continued until 2006, where he held a part time post as research fellow at the Ship Stability Research Centre (SSRC), where he worked on the development and implementation of risk assessment techniques in the evaluation of ship safety, mainly in concept ship design. His work contributed significantly to SSRC’s extensive output in EC-funded research on risk-based design and safety. Dr Guarin’s undergraduate degree was in Structural Ship Design from the Technical University of Gdansk, which was completed in 1997. He has conducted several Formal Safety and Risk Assessments on behalf of regulatory and industry bodies on subjects such as safety of passenger ships and tankers operating in Polar Regions, air and oil pollution from ships, structural degradation of bulk carriers, as well as fire protection and LSA alternative arrangements on ships including Ro-Pax, cruise, mega-yachts and special purpose ships. He has also been involved in safety assessments and audits of Organisations Recognised (RO) to undertake statutory and class surveys of ships.

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    Dr Andrzej Jasionowski

    MEng, PhD, CEng

    Director, Research and
    Product Development

    a.jasionowski@safety-at-sea.co.uk

    Andrzej is the Director of Research and Product Development and the Technical Manager of the Ship Stability Research Centre of the University of Strathclyde, where he is also a lecturer. He graduated from the Technical University of Gdansk (MEng, 1997), and University of Strathclyde (PhD, 2002). His expertise includes ship hydrodynamics, damaged ship dynamics, stability, risk assessment, inductive inference, modelling uncertainty, and numerical algorithms development. He is the Author/ of 34 journal and conference papers.

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    Anthony York

    BEng, MRINA

    Director, Concept Design
    and Naval Architecture

    a.york@safety-at-sea.co.uk

    Anthony is the Director of Concept Design and Naval Architecture. He has a BEng in Naval Architecture from the University of Strathclyde, and joined the company as a consultant when it was formed in 1999. Anthony has considerable experience in the field of stability assessment (both intact and damaged) for a variety of ship types, and the detailed application of both deterministic and probabilistic stability standards (SOLAS’2009). He has worked on a large number of Ro-Pax and Cruise Liner conversion projects, and has been involved in a number of vessel accident investigations such as the MS al-Salam Boccaccio 98, and is a member of the Joint Panel of Experts in the re-opened TRIDENT fishing vessel investigation. He has extensive model testing experience in the area of Stockholm Agreement compliance, and has been directly involved in a number of concept designs for both Cruise and Ro-Pax platforms.