Patrick Adamson

Patrick Adamson is Chairman and Founding partner of MTI Network.

Allyson Cover

Allyson Cover is Chief Operating Officer of the MTI Network and a Director of MTI Limited, London. Allyson is responsible for co-ordination and liaison between clients and Network Partners on all matters such as training, quality and administration.

Allyson also takes a lead role in organising and running all levels of MTI training courses worldwide.

Martin Baxendale

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.

Mark Clark

Mark Clark has over 25 years of working on crisis desks in both the commercial world and UK government transport and health departments. He has provided strategic media handling advice to many of the world’s leading shipping companies and has been on the front line in numerous high profile casualties.

Formerly a print journalist, and then behind the microphone on both the BBC and independent radio stations across Europe, Mark was also a personal press officer to a UK Cabinet Minister for a lengthy period and spent some time at the very highest level of government.

Between 1997 and 2011 he headed the UK Maritime & Coastguard Agency’s public relations and media department. During this time he handled many significant shipping, yachting and oil incidents and worked closely with many companies and teams within the oil and gas sectors. He has been involved in many multi-faceted drills, training exercises and on-line simulations of casualty situations to test organisations, local authorities, government bodies and shipping and energy companies.

Graham Isdale

Graham has handled crisis-communications assignments for some of the world’s best-known companies and has supported MTI in the UK for the past 10 years.

A former UK Board director of one of the world’s largest communications companies, he has provided high-level strategic advice to conglomerates in sectors ranging from shipping and nuclear to transportation and chemicals. A former award-winning newspaper editor, he was instrumental in building two of the largest and most successful independent PR consultancies in the UK.

Graham, who is based in Glasgow, Scotland, has carried out media training for global brands across Europe and continues to be recognised as a leading issues-management specialist, having handled major assignments for multi-nationals from North America to Asia. These have included everything from an oil slick in the Philippines and a tanker adrift in the Indian Ocean to the capsizing of a tug in Scotland. He also ran a successful media and political campaign to save the North Sea emergency response and rescue fleet.

His other assignments have ranged from handling industrial blackmail for a US computer giant and various nuclear emergency incidents across the UK to animal welfare brutality in West Virginia, the Dunblane Primary School massacre in Scotland and explosions and a bomb threat at chemical plants in England, France and Italy.

William Marks

William joined MTI Network in 2014, having completed his Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers Exams and winning an award for high marks in one of them. He was educated at the University of Leeds gaining a BA (Hons).

Since then William has been heavily involved in all aspects of the business in London, with first hand experience in dealing with maritime crisis and contributing to the MTI training programme throughout Europe.

Sally Bishop

Sally has been at MTI Network since graduating in 2016. Since then, Sally has maintained an active role in dealing with crisis response first hand, including drills and trainings both in London and abroad.

Sally is part of the digital team, and is currently focussed on implementing and developing MTI’s eLearning platform and online courses.

Blake Sinclair

Blake joined MTI Network in 2017. He leads our ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance) programme.

He holds an M.A. (Hons) in Economics.

Charlie Ridgeway

Since joining MTI Network in 2018, Charlie has been heavily involved in all aspects of the business, with first-hand experience in dealing with a number of high-profile maritime incidents.

Charlie is responsible for managing MTI’s monitoring team, as well as, taking an active lead on the execution of special projects, including; social media strategy and the use of ‘Dark Sites’ to help manage a crisis.

Charlie is also closely involved with MTI’s global media training program.

Carima Gomari

Carima Gomari takes a lead role in many aspects of the accounts management and financial administration of MTI Network.

Prior to joining MTI Network, Carima worked as property and accounts manager in the real estate sector.

Anthony Holt

Anthony is responsible for MTI’s administrative centre in Guernsey. After graduating from Oxford University he joined Schroders in London where he became SFA Registered as a Securities Representative for the Financing & Structured Products Division of J. Henry Schroder & Co. Limited. During his time there he was primarily involved in both onshore and offshore private banking in a variety of jurisdictions. Anthony is an associate member of the Association of Corporate Treasurers, is involved in many aspects of financial administration and sits on the boards of various asset holding and trading companies.

Cor Radings

Having worked as a corporate communications director with Royal Nedlloyd and P&O Nedlloyd, Cor Radings joined MTI Network in 2001.

As Senior Partner he is specialised in 24/7 media advise during high-profile shipping and offshore incidents.

Cor Radings is also involved in MTI Network’s worldwide media training programme.

Bart De Clerck

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.

Bart has been MTI’s representative for Belgium since 2008.

Christina Dupré Roos

Christina worked with INTERTANKO (The International Association of Independent Tanker Owners) for 15 years prior to her 16 year track record within maritime PR. Christina has arranged and led over 50 maritime press tours around the world (Houston, Rio de Janeiro, Dubai, Murmansk, Vancouver, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Gothenburg, Hamburg, London and Oslo). She is regularly called up by leading global companies to arrange press events for selected maritime and offshore journalists. Christina is also press responsible for Nor-Shipping, a position that she has held for 13 consecutive years.

Mark Fuhrmann

With more than 25 years experience within the maritime industry, Mark Fuhrmann heads our MTI Scandinavian team. Educated in journalism and communications at Southern California College in Los Angeles, he worked as a marine insurance broker in Oslo, prior to becoming the Scandinavian correspondent for Lloyds of London. He has founded two companies within maritime publishing and PR & Communications and written extensively for more than 50 Nordic companies in the maritime and offshore segments. He has broad experience in media relations, crisis management and brand communications from his work with leading maritime companies in Norway, Sweden and Denmark.

Marina Leonidhopoulos

Marina Leonidhopoulos is the founder of Out of the Box PR that represents MTI Network in Greece; she is now the agency’s Managing Partner. Marina started her career as a copywriter in advertising but was soon won over by the PR industry and founded her first agency, Stigma Communication in 1994; the company later became the Greek subsidiary of Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, a member of the Ogilvy Group in Athens.

In 2004 left the Ogilvy Group and founded Out of the Box PR that offers the full spectrum of Public Relaions services to corporate and consumer brands. Over the year she has worked with several clients from different industries on Issues & Crisis Management programmes.

Dimitris Roulias

Dimitris Roulias is the CEO of Out of the Box PR that represents MTI Network in Greece. Dimitris is a seasoned PR professional with over 20 years’ experience in Corporate Communication and Issues & Crisis Management. He started his career as the Head of Communication at IBM Hellas and later moved to the Ogilvy Group to set-up Ogilvy Interactive. He then became the CEO of Ogilvy One in Athens before moving on to Communication Effect, the Edelman affiliate in Greece as VP.

As of 2008 he is a partner at Out of the Box and the agency’s CEO. He is currently a member of the Board of HACA, the Hellenic Association of Communication Agencies, serving a term as Secretary General.

Sheena Campbell-Royle

Sheena Campbell-Royle O.B.E. is a psychology graduate and has developed her career in the world of communication over the last 30 years.

Sheena moved to Spain in the seventies and is currently CEO of SCR. Founded in 1986, the company has offices in Madrid and Barcelona. The company has a long history in Crisis communication, lobby and media training. During 11 years Sheena was President of the British Chamber of Commerce in Spain and President of the British Chambers of Commerce in continental Europe. Sheena is an expert communicator and has handled many shipping specific crisis includents with a recent emphasis on Somali vessel hijackings.

Laura Grani

Laura Grani is Italian by birth and moved to Spain 12 years ago. She has been working for SCR for 10 years and is the company Head of Media Relations. Laura has an engaging character which enables her to get the most out of the media using her in depth knowledge and intelligence. She has been involved in various maritime incidents which have involved looking after crew, passengers and press alike, is multilingual and has a full understanding of the shipping industry.

Antonella Romano

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.

Martin Slater

Martin began his career in shipping as a marine insurance broker at Lloyds. Following a BA at Essex University and a Ph.D. at MIT, he taught for several years at the Universities of Harvard, Clark (USA), Essex (UK) and Turin (Italy) before taking up a post in the UK Treasury advising ministers on agricultural and trade policy. In 1991, he founded Noesis, MTI’s partner in Italy, which is one of the country’s leading PR companies. Expert in crisis management and issue management, he has advised clients in many areas of business including finance (American Express, Fidelity, M&G, Clerical Medical, Credit Suisse, Deutschebank), Energy and chemicals (Lyondell Basell, Solvay), Pharmaceuticals (Pfizer, Abbott, MSD, Novartis), Food and Beverage (Fratelli Beretta, Stock, Warsteiner, Bonduelle) and shipping (Navigazione Montanari, Augusta Offshore). Languages: English, Italian, French.

Thomas Bégon

Formerly a Crisis Management and Communications Consultant at Risk&Co, Thomas is experienced at handling all manner of crisis communications issues.
Thomas holds a Masters in Public Law (Paris X University), a Masters in Political Sciences (Paris X University) and Economic Intelligence (Versailles University).

Thierry Koenig

Former Institutional and Social Communications Consultant at Burson-Marsteller, BDDP Corporate, and Altédia (communications consulting groups). Masters in Law, Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po).

Béatrice de Veyrac

Having previously worked at Hill and Knowlton and Francom (PR Group) as an Organizational and Communications Consultant, Béatrice is now President of PR Agency Arjuna in France. She holds a Masters in Law, as well as a postgraduate certification in Information Science and Communication. A qualified audiovisual journalist and graduate of the National Audio-Visual Institute (INA), Béatrice’s knowledge and expertise extend to all aspects of the public relations profession.

Jim Lawrence

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

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.

Paul Wilson

Paul Wilson is a partner at NATIONAL Public Relations. He has been working as a communications expert for close to 25 years. Director of the Corporate Communications group, Paul specializes in the management of corporates issues for companies in Quebec and across Canada. Whether for internal or external communications issues, Paul will be able to help you achieve your objectives by creating distinctive and creative communications programs.

Ian Herbison

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.

Nick Roe

Nick is the Regional Director of Maritime Technical International and focuses on the business in the Asia Pacific region. Nick was educated in the UK and holds a BA (Hons) from Bristol University.

He has worked in the shipping industry since he graduated in 2004. Having started his career at VShips in London, he continued to work in shipbroking for Maersk Broker and Wallem in Hong Kong. His background in commercial shipping brings first hand knowledge of operations, chartering and ship management to MTI Network.

Nick is involved in all areas MTI Network’s business of global media response and media training. Having worked extensively in incident response and conducted executive media training programmes and seafarer conferences throughout the region.

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Yoshinori Fukushima

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.

Yap Boh Tiong

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.

Patsy Phay

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.

Vidheesh Tyagi

Vidheesh Tyagi is Vice President of Mileage Communications (India) Pvt. Ltd.

Vidheesh has over 19-years of experience in corporate and marketing communications, tourism marketing and hospitality sales. He has successfully handled various PR initiatives, marketing promotions and events for Mileage clients in India. His strengths lie in communication skills, strategizing, below the line promotions  besides crisis communications.

Sunil Puri

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.

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Jeremy Kirk

Jeremy Kirk has more than 20 years experience of corporate affairs and marketing communication, crisis and issues management, government relations and journalism in Australia, New Zealand and Asia.

Anthony Tregoning

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. Before this Anthony was director of an international educational publishing group, responsible for companies in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Caribbean.

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Melwyn Abraham

Melwyn is a passionate communications practitioner and trainer whose 12 years of experience in the Middle East spans public relations, social media and crisis communications. In addition to a Master’s Degree in Communication Studies and a Certification in Coaching, he holds a Google Certification in Digital Analytics.

Serhan Ergezer

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.

Merih Gungor

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.