Martin Baxendale is the Managing Director of Maritime Technical International Ltd. Martin was educated in the UK and holds a BA (Hons) from London University. After working for a City based advertising and public relations agency, he joined the MTI Network’s London office in 1998. During his time with MTI, Martin has overseen traditional public relations projects, as well as working extensively on incident response and reputation management programmes.

He has advised on a number of high-profile media incidents, as well as a wide range of pre-emptive strategic programmes. He is also closely involved in MTI’s various training programmes.

John Wickham has been involved in the maritime industry for thirty years. He has held senior positions at Inchcape Plc, Denholm Shipmanagement and Wallem Shipmanagement in the UK, Hong Kong and New York. Before joining the MTI Network, he worked for Royal Olympic Cruises Lines Inc. in Piraeus, Greece.

Further to his responsibilities as operations director, he was an active member of the team that took the company public on the Nasdaq stock exchange in 1998. His diverse experience brings a wealth of first hand knowledge of ship owning, ship management and the cruise industry to the MTI Network.

Jim Lawrence is Chairman of MTI USA and President and founding partner of MTI Network, along with Patrick Adamson in London. Jim’s involvement in, and depth of knowledge across, all sectors of the Marine industry provides MTI clients with the highest level of maritime communications consultancy and crisis management preparation.

Mr Lawrence is Chairman of the publishing company Marine Money, which produces the monthly magazine Marine Money, the weekly on-line report Freshly Minted, the newsletter International Ship Registry Review, and the annual directory Official Guide to Registries. He is also Chairman of International Marketing Strategies Inc. a US based sales and marketing company providing US and non-US based maritime focused companies, governments and associations with sophisticated entry to North American markets.

Darrell Wilson is President of MTI Network USA and is responsible for leading industry crisis response efforts. Darrell joined MTI after his retirement from a 21 year career with the US Coast Guard as a Public Affairs Chief.

Darrell worked in New York, San Francisco and, for the last 10 years of his career, Alaska where he managed the Public Affairs program for the State. Darrell handled media/community relations and managed Joint Information Centres to handle community concerns during major incidents. He has been involved in a wide range of incidents ranging from stowaways, drug smuggling and rescuing stranded boaters, to major shipwrecks, fires and oil spills.

Darrel has extensive experience teaching Public Affairs, Crisis Communications and JIC operations to Coast Guard men and women and industry partners. Darrell is based in the US Gulf Coast where he is just a short flight from any coast in the US. His experience, enthusiasm and Coast Guard knowledge has enhanced MTI’s ability to provide the best Reputation Management services to our clients around the world.

Ferdi Stolzenberg has over 35 years experience in advertising, PR and publishing, 22 of which have been spent in Hong Kong and Asia.He is President of MTI Asia.

Ferdi Stolzenberg worked in advertising, Hong Kong, until 1976 when he returned to Melbourne, Australia to set up his own corporate communications agency.1983 saw him return to Hong Kong, initially freelancing as a business writer, and then setting up a PR agency in 1985. In late 1985,he met Patrick Adamson and a long-term business relationship commenced. Both specialised in business/banking/shipping PR. In 1990, when Patrick Adamson came up with the idea of carving a niche market in shipping crisis management as a result of OPA '90, he became one of the founding partners of the MTI Network, along with Jim Lawrence.

Noelle was born in Hong Kong, where she obtained an Honours Degree in Sociology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is fluent in English, Cantonese and Mandarin and has a basic knowledge of Japanese. Noelle worked as a shipping journalist before joining MTI in 2003, where she has been involved in handling incidents and training, for the past 4 years.

Cor Radings started his career as a newspaper journalist in The Netherlands. In the late eighties he joined Royal Nedlloyd as a communications officer, working on corporate projects worldwide, covering internal and external communications and crisis communications with an emphasis on the shipping activities.

After Nedlloyd, Cor Radings moved to worldwide dredging company Royal Boskalis Westminster as Head of Corporate Communications and company spokesman. With Royal Boskalis he was a member of the crisis management team, responsible for communications. In 2001 he became an MTI Network partner based in Rotterdam.

After completing his Law degree at the Antwerp University, Bart De Clerck has worked as a journalist for Belgian newspapers and television for over 10 years. Throughout his media career, port related matters have always been one of his specialties and Bart has since left journalism to set up his own Antwerp based communication company which focuses on crisis communication and media training. Since 2008 he has been MTI's representative for Belgium and the northern part of France.

Antonella graduated from the University of Salerno in 1993. Following work experience in New York and London and Milan, she joined Noesis, MTI’s partner in Italy, in 1997. In Noesis, she heads the Corporate, Finance and Health Care divisions. In the last few years she has specialized in crisis communications, advising clients on acquisitions, reorganizations, media attacks, judicial enquiries. The most recent crisis she managed was that of Asso Ventidue, the Italian ship occupied by the Libyan military. Antonella is qualified as a professional journalist. She speaks Italian, French and English.

Elise Croonen started her career in Sales, but was drawn more and more to Marketing, PR & Communication, which have been her main occupation since 1991. She completed her education studying in the evenings from 1991 until 1998, while working as Marketing & PR Manager in the daytime.

In 2001 she moved to Greece and got involved in the Shipping Industry, first as Marketing & PR Manager for Unimarine Services Ltd. and later as Marketing & Sales Manager for TWA S.A. and Trans-It ApS. Recently Elise founded her own communications agency.

Anthony Tregoning is managing director of Financial & Corporate Relations (FCR), a leading corporate and investor communication agency which has assisted with 25 IPOs and 27 M&A transactions in the past three years.

He advises a wide range of clients throughout the Asia-Pacific region on communication strategy, investor relations, corporate image marketing and issues management. He previously operated a financial media/marketing consultancy after spending three years as chief executive of an international trade finance company. Earlier Anthony was director of an international educational publishing group, responsible for companies in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Caribbean.

Brian Mahoney has been a director of FCR since 1987. He co-ordinated media relations throughout the Tampa dispute on behalf of the ship's owner, and has managed communication in a wide variety of crises. These have included a union threat to cargoes suspected of being contaminated with foot and mouth disease; oil spills; customer deaths from legionnaires disease; the threatened flooding of a mine; and companies being placed in bankruptcy. As well as crisis and issues management, Brian advises companies on media relations, and investor and employee communication.

He has some 30 years' experience in corporate and financial communication, including roles as public relations consultant, senior finance journalist with The Australian and columnist on the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph.

Yoshinori Fukushima graduated from Meiji University with a major in Agricultural Chemistry. After a few years working under film production, he joined a leading company of retail chain stores as a director of research and development division of new media, and as a sales manager of TV copyrights.

He now works as a PR director of Japan PR Vision, whose main clients include e-commerce business, IT business, retail business, entertainment business, and others.

Patsy Phay is the Executive Director of Mileage Communications Pte Ltd. She has more than 18 years of banking experience. Prior to joining Mileage, Patsy was with the Credit Department at the Regional Head Office Singapore of Deutsche Bank AG.

Patsy made a career switch to public relations by making use of her public relations qualifications which she acquired from the internationally regarded CAM Foundation in London. At Mileage, she developed investor relations programmes for public listed companies. She also spearheaded the communications programmes for companies in the financial, IT, biotech/pharmaceutical/healthcare, high-end consumer & lifestyle sectors. Patsy has handled many shipping and non-shipping crises for clients over the past 10 years.

Yap Boh Tiong is the Managing Director of Mileage Communications Pte Ltd. He has more than 30 years experience in the mass communication field encompassing journalism, public relations, advertising and marketing.

He worked with a number of leading companies such as Singapore Airlines, United Overseas Bank (UOB) and Inchcape Berhad in senior public relations and marketing positions. He also has provided public relations advice and service to the National Productivity Board for almost a decade, the Housing and Development Board, the Singapore Central Provident Fund Board, the Ministry of Education, and Singapore Red Cross.

Yap Boh Tiong has a Masters Degree in Social Science (Sociology) from the University of Singapore and also holds a Diploma in Public Relations from the internationally regarded CAM Foundation in London.

He was the President of the Institute of Public Relations of Singapore (IPRS) from 1985 to 1993 and is a member of the International Public Relations Association (IPRA). For his outstanding work for the Institute and the industry, he was conferred the title of Fellow by IPRS in 1994. In February 2000, the Institute named him PR Professional of the Year, in recognition of his contributions to the PR Industry.

Jacqueline is a Senior Consultant at MILEAGE Communications Pte Ltd.

She has over 28 years of PR experience managing portfolios comprising public and private sector clients from Fortune 500 companies to SMEs. Besides PR, her experience includes branding & advertising and event management.

Prior to joining MILEAGE, Jacqueline spent 3 years in Beijing as an English educator to the instructing Professors and Masters-degree students. She also spent 11 years in the UK where she held decision-making roles from design to purchasing, merchandising, sales and management for the leading prestigious luxury corporation, LVMH Group (Louis Vuitton / Moet-Hennessey).

Sharon Pereira Alvares has over 4 years of experience in Public Relations having worked with a reputed agency in India before moving to the Middle East. A BSc( I.T) graduate and an MBA with The Mumbai University Sharon has also worked in the IT field for a year before pursuing a career in Public Relations . As a public relations consultant, she has serviced clients from multiple sectors but has a keen interest in the areas of finance and retail.

Sharon has been instrumental in the PR activity roll-out, right from strategic planning to implementation for numerous clients like JP Morgan AMC, Standard Chartered AMC, Deewan Housing Finance, MTV etc at Lowe Lintas in Mumbai.

Currently she is managing communications for Saxo Bank Dubai, Safi Airways and International shoe brands at the Landmark group. Besides being entrusted with the opportunity and challenge of expanding Matrix’s finance and retail portfolio of business and providing valuable insights based on her expertise to corresponding clients from across the region. Some of the clients handled in the past include Delta Airlines, GCAA (General Civil Aviation Authority), Iraq Investment and Business Conference and Takaful Conferences around the GCC.

Sheena Campbell Royle has been concentrating on the mastery of communications and public relations for many years.  After completing a degree in Psychology, Sheena followed a career that led her to the post of Director of Public Relations for Spain for Johnnie Walker and Moët and Chandon.  Founder and shareholder of her own PR company, SCR, she specialises in client strategy development and is in charge of international and institutional relations - combining this with the role of Managing Director.  She is also president of the British Chamber of Commerce in Spain and Vice President of the council of British Chambers of Commerce in Continental Europe.

Ian began his consulting career with PriceWaterhouseCoopers in the UK before moving to Central and Eastern Europe and working with multinational investors on M&A and privatisation projects, with clients including Unicredit, Allianz and Deutsche Telecom.

In 2001 he joined Mmd - the leading corporate communications and public affairs consultancy in Eastern Europe -  providing board-level counsel to companies in the energy, mining, steel, telecoms and financial services sectors. He developed and led offices in seven markets before assuming overall responsibility for the CEE region.

He has directed pan-European campaigns for Visa, Google, HP, Nokia and GE, working with European and global communications directors to set strategy and directing international teams in up to 19 countries to ensure effective delivery in each territory. In 2009 he left Mmd and co-founded Speyside.

Ian has extensive experience in issues and crisis management, financial communications, and managing communications and public affairs for foreign investment projects for top-tier global companies.

Jean-François Lebrun has made his mark in Public Affairs by providing his analytical strengths and his issues management capabilities to the top management of large private and public sector organisations. He can call on his solid, in-depth knowledge of the fifth estate thanks to a 20-year tenure in journalism.

During his media career, Jean-François was involved in the three major types of news outlets: radio (Telemedia Network), television (TVA Network) and print (Journal de Montréal as A columnist and News Director).

In business, he displayed his talents as an executive working for the Quebecor Group and the Fonds de solidarité FTQ. As an entrepreneur, he owned and operated radio stations before founding his own public relations consultancy. He has also lectured on Public Relations at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM) and at Concordia University.

After completing his Law degree at the Antwerp University, Bart De Clerck has worked as a journalist for Belgian newspapers and television for over 10 years. Throughout his media career, port related matters have always been one of his specialties and Bart has since left journalism to set up his own Antwerp based communication company which focuses on crisis communication and media training.

Since 2008 he has been MTI's representative for Belgium and the northern part of France.

Since joining NATIONAL in 1995, Laurent has worked on many important issues management assignments for clients in both the public and private sectors, including Alcoa, the Quebec Provincial Home Builders Association, Bell Canada, Ivanhoe Cambridge, Loto-Québec, Maple Leaf Foods, the Montreal Metropolitan Community, National Bank, Provigo, QIT Fer & Titane and the City of Laval. He draws on his expertise to take an integrated approach to complex communications issues that involve several different components within a single organization.

Laurent also has a wealth of experience in projects that involve community engagement, customer service or other activities that may affect an organization’s good reputation.

Sunil Puri is Managing Director of Mileage Communications (India) Pvt. Ltd. a joint venture company with Mileage Communications Singapore.

Sunil has over 25 years experience in finance, marketing, tourism and public relations, and has created and implemented a range of successful PR programs for international clients. His strengths include marketing communications, finance, designing PR strategies and crisis communications.

She studied journalism and public relations and established MESE Public Relations in 1991 after 6 years of experience in export and banking sectors. MESE was among the first PR consultancies to be formed in Turkey and having worked with many multinational and local companies, MESE is one of the most experienced and well-known PR companies in Istanbul.

Besides PR, MESE is an expert in crises management and media training. Merih is also a partner of a fair organization company handling agriculture and logistics events in Turkey

After working with some of Istanbul’s most highly regarded PR companies as a professional for many years, Serhan established MESE together with her partner Merih Güngör.

She is an expert on media relations and crisis management and is the head of this division within MESE.