captain eric clarke. maritime executive
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Eric Clarke [email protected]@gmail.com
Strategic ManagementSENIOR MARITIME EXECUTIVE
EXECUTIVE PROFILE
Executive Leadership Vision, Strategy & Execution
Development, Team Building & Leadership
Turnaround Management
Process & Performance Improvement
Technical & Governmental Affairs
Regulatory Compliance
Operations
HQSE
Relationship Management Internal Relations
Customer Relations
Bilingual English/French
Spoken Spanish, German
High-performance senior executive
Clear strategic vision and extensive international experience leading and building teams, starting, growing and strengthening businesses. Proven experience in turn around management, defining strategy and successfully implementing missions and tactics.
Rare background as Captain (Cruise Ship) and Chief-Engineer, extensive shore experience and top level executive education. Global view and holistic understanding of the maritime industry.
Multilingual and multi-cultural leader. Consistently drives organizational growth, and enhances value by molding efficient, responsive and flexible client centric organizations. Recognized by a number of prestigious industry awards.
Strong commercial acumen, understands market needs and creates, defines, refines products and services to best serve clients via consultative approach. Diplomatic and creative negotiator bridges commercial and cultural gaps to close large contracts.
Safety and operations expert. 30 years involvement in ship operations, ship safety, accident investigation and improving maritime safety standards. Central to creation of new ship environmental standard, now used by 25% of world shipping.
Strategic thinker with a clear verifiable record of success and solid knowledge of business structures and management, key contributor to enterprise-level vision, planning and decision-making. Served as an advisor at the International Maritime Organization (IMO). Frequent speaker at international conferences.
P&L accountability and business growth
Current P&L responsibilities for a quarter of all world-wide maritime service activities of a publicly listed group, in charge of 24 offices and companies in the Americas. Upon joining, successfully defined and executed turnaround strategy. Americas region how has highest growth (21% Q4 2013 to 2014 Q1) in the group
Previous responsibilities included starting and growing RightShip Americas’ group of businesses, identifying new business and clients, building RightShip into the undisputed world leader in its sector: Setting maritime safety and environmental standards for clients’ fleets, raising safety culture, performance and environmental standards throughout. RightShip has received a Lloyd’s List award and numerous export awards.
Highly ethical, motivated executive and manager
Motivational, lead-by-example manager, agent of change, and a successful and influential business leader. Strong proponent of employee empowerment and accountability, leader of successful teams.
Overcomes complex business challenges and makes high-level decisions. A passion for our fast-paced, high-pressure industry. Strong communicator, both internally, and externally to investors, directors or clients and can translate a strategic vision into logical, well defined and clear objectives, tactics and goals.Respected for sound, experience-backed judgment, innovation, strong work ethic, and integrity.
Significant achievements and qualifications
Youngest of French merchant marine class, yet amongst the first to have sailed both as a Captain (Cruise Ship) and Chief-Engineer (Tanker). Came out first during Officer training course during military service in the French Navy.Settled ashore after achieving senior level onboard, helped start-up Euronav, in charge of operations then head of safety for 22 tankers.
Undertook maritime law education at Southampton University and was involved as a high level advisor in the investigations of most of the largest casualties from the 90s, the “deadly decade” and a number of government entities around the world.
Completed an Executive Management Program at MIT/Sloan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
Solid understanding of modern technology. Wrote numerous software applications and databases. Advises a video software solution company.Holds a commercial plane pilot license. Achieved sailor, winner of many races.
Eric Clarke [email protected]
CHRONOLOGY
EXPERIENCE AT SEACadet/Junior Officer: 14 months, 27 daysSenior Officer: 41 months, 18 daysTOTAL 56 months, 15 days
EXPERIENCE ASHORE
From Jul 2013 Imtech Marine USA – President and Managing Directorto Date Imtech Marine – Managing Director Service – Americas
Imtech Marine – Board Director USA, Canada, Panama, Curacao, Trinidad and Tobago, and Brazil local companies.Full P/L, strategic and operational responsibilities for the Imtech Marine Service Group of companies in the Americas, a quarter of all world-wide maritime service activities of the publicly listed Royal Imtech Group. Streamlining and restructuring to restore group to profitability and operational excellence.
From Aug 2005 RightShip PTY Ltd. – Vice President – Americasto Jul 2013 RightShip Americas LLC – General Manager – Americas
RightShip USA LLC – DirectorFull P/L, strategic and operational responsibilities for the group in the Americas. Creating and building the group, dealing with marketing, sales, client relationship, product development and all matters arising from within the American continents.
From Jan 2005 Liberian International Ship & Corporate Registry (LISCR) to Aug 2005 Vice President – Seafarer’s Certification & Documentation
P/L responsibility. In charge of all matters relating to seafarer’s certification and documentation for almost 600,000 seafarers under the second largest flag in the world.Representing Liberia at the United Nation, IMO.
From March 2001 EDO Professional Services / Quantic - Senior Project Engineerto Dec 2004 Project Management, heading operations, safety and logistics teams, setting and organizing
technical consultant teams to assist US Navy, Coast Guards and others manage large —mostly classified — complex projects.
From December 1997 Southern Seas P&I insuranceto March 2001 Vice President Claims, Accident Investigation and Loss Prevention
Overall responsibility for the claims department of a maritime insurance. Started from scratch, recruiting and building a 400 people worldwide team and creating the management procedures and software suite.
From January 1996 Constant & Constant Solicitors - Marine Advisorto December 1997 Advised lawyers and court on almost all larger maritime casualties and incidents of the
decade.
From April 1992 Euronav (UK) Agencies Ltd. – Operations. Head of Safety.to January 1996 In charge of all operations for a fleet of up to 22 Crude Oil Tankers.