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Gordon Rennie

11 episodes

9 months ago

Ramesh recalls a memorable incident with his dad and a recruiting officer named Mr. Hoshang Dasdu that led to him signing his first contract in the shipping industry. He didn't have a specific mentor but learned from different chief engineers and captains throughout his sailing career. Ramesh shares his transition from being a seaman to becoming Chief Engineer, which was exciting for him despite some challenges. He eventually decided to leave the sea life due to boredom and took on his first ...

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Episodes (11/11)

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#11 Ramesh Biradar: The biggest challenge was maintaining work-life balance

2 years ago

56 minutes

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#10 Hatem Elgameil - Changing from Marine Engineer to Naval Architect, Moving your family around the world and leading teams in complex projects

Summary:Hatem Elgameil, a Naval architect and Marine engineer, introduces himself and his background. He immigrated to the United States in 1994 and has worked in various engineering roles throughout his career. He joined IMI International Marine Industries as Vice President of Engineering in 2020 after spending 14 years with Noble drilling as Director of Projects. Hatem also had experience working in a company in California doing engineering model testing and R&D design verification. Des...

2 years ago

30 minutes

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#9 Per Cristian Dettwiler - Destined for shoreside, Going after an MBA and starting a Wagyu Beef Farm

Summary:Gordon interviews Per Cristian with an untraditional shipping background who had a desire to work on ships from a young age. Per Cristian shares their family's seafaring legacy and their own journey from Switzerland to Norway, where they studied nautical engineering. They then joined Odgl as a cadet and spent ten years working on ships before deciding it was time to move back to shore. They joined Esper Tankers in Hamburg and later ENS tankers. Per Cristian talks about their fir...

2 years ago

33 minutes

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#8 Bob Sanguinetti - A life in the Royal Navy, transitioning from UK Chamber of Shipping to Leading Aberdeen Harbour

Summary:Bob Sanguinetti, CEO of Aberdeen Harbour Board and former Royal Navy officer, discusses his career and the reasons for transitioning from the UK Chamber of Shipping to Aberdeen. He highlights Aberdeen's potential in leading decarbonization efforts in shipping due to its advanced subsea technology, smaller vessels for prototyping new technologies, and concentration of energy companies. He also emphasises the significance of Aberdeen's harbour expansion project, which is the largest mar...

2 years ago

54 minutes

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#7 - Frank Coles - The journey from seafarer to CEO and the fight to create a green channel for seafarers

Frank Coles is a former seafarer that made the career decision to come ashore and study maritime law which eventually led to him becoming the President of Inmarsat, CEO of Transas and most recently the CEO of Wallem Group.Known for his outspoken style Frank takes no prisoners in his desire to have seafarers recognised and to provide an enforceable global protocol for "Green Channel" travel for seafarers (link to the petition below). The story of his career journey is inspiring and he to...

4 years ago

1 hour 8 minutes

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Chris McDade - Going from Deck Cadet to VP of Gas Ops at Teekay, Seafarer Career Development and Taking on Challenges (#6)

Chris McDade was appointed as Vice President of Gas Operations by Teekay in the Summer in the middle of the COVID pandemic. His rise within Teekay to his new position has been relentless and his willingness to take on new projects and succeed isn't common so it was great to learn more about his journey in joining the industry as a Deck Cadet and the small decision at the time to join one of two vessel types and the eventual difference it made in his career path.Teekay Gas has went throu...

4 years ago

59 minutes

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Thomas Wøidemann - Becoming CEO of Lauritzen Kosan and How Consistently Taking on New Challenges Made All The Difference In His Career (#5)

Thomas Wøidemann is the CEO of Lauritzen Kosan in Copenhagen. We discuss a range of topics from what it took for him to achieve his career goals and how his loyalty and consistency in accepting new challenges within his company helped him advance to his current position.Starting out in the commercial side of the business with a bit of luck before accepting a challenge to move to Texas to gain experience rather than the commercial gain that is often looked at as the primary motive.Having now w...

4 years ago

48 minutes

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Chrissie Clark - Breaking Diversity Barriers in Maritime, Diversity Initiatives and Lessons from Mining (#4)

Chrissie Clark is the Programme Manager for Diversity & Skills with Maritime UK. Chrissie has made great strides so far in her first year in the post strengthening the existing Women in Maritime Network and Launching the LBGT Maritime Network, the Ethnicity in Maritime Network and the Mental Health Network. All of the networks hold monthly meetings and engagement has been incredible so far.Chrissie started her career in Diversity in Australia within the Mining sector. Yo...

4 years ago

56 minutes

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Alexander Varvarenko - Breaking through technology barriers, Changing the Shipping Sector and Building ShipNext

Alexander is the CEO and Founder of SHIPNEXT and VARAMAR. In this episode we discuss the thought process behind starting SHIPNEXT and some of the challenges he has met since starting SHIPNEXT. As a company SHIPNEXT is a global trade platform linking ships with Cargoes around the world.If you are looking for inspiration Alexander's story and attitude is sure to push you as he shares how he has pushed through the opinions of the naysayers and now successfully grown two businesses.Th...

4 years ago

1 hour 4 minutes

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Jon Loken - Succeeding as a Start Up in COVID, Technology Advancements and Chord-X (#2)

Launching a Marine Tech Start Up is never going to be an easy task but at Chord-X spending the majority of your first year in business in the COVID Pandemic hasn't stopped them.I this episode we learn more about Jon and non maritime start to now leading an exciting start up forward. Taking inspiration from Aviation and Formula 1 industries Chord-X is a game changer for vessel owners and managers for not only saving fuel costs but also in early detection of engine anomalies in real time ...

4 years ago

57 minutes

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John Wood - The Journey to becoming CEO of Infrastrata, Year 1 of Harland & Wolff and The Future for British Shipbuilding (#1)

It has been a hard year for many but one of the positive stories to emerge has been the acquisition of Harland & Wolff Belfast and Harland & Wolff Appledore by Infrastrata Plc.In this episode we can learn a bit more about the man leading the charge for shipbuilding in the UK, Infrastrata's CEO John Wood. We learn more about his background from childhood exposure to the Maritime industry to going full circle with the incredible story of his first vessel as a Engineering Cadet bei...

4 years ago

35 minutes