Our leadership

Our chairman and a member of our board of directors. Mr. Livanos founded our subsidiary GasLog LNG Services in 2001 and has been a director of GasLog Partners LP since the closing of its initial public offering in May 2014. He has served as our chairman since the Company was incorporated in July 2003 and held the role of Chief Executive Officer from January 2012 until January 2013.

Mr. Livanos is the chairman and sole shareholder of Ceres Shipping, an international shipping group. He also serves as chairman of several of Ceres Shipping’s subsidiaries, including DryLog Ltd., a company engaged in dry bulk shipping investments.

In 1989 Mr. Livanos formed Seachem Tankers Ltd., which in 2000 combined with Odfjell ASA (later renamed Odfjell SE). He served on the board of directors of Odfjell SE until 2008.

Mr. Livanos is a graduate of Columbia University.

Paul Wogan has served as our CEO since January 2013 and has been a member of our board of directors since our annual general meeting in May 2015.

From 2008 until February 2012, Mr Wogan served as a senior independent director of Clarksons PLC. From 2000 to 2008, Mr Wogan worked for Teekay Corporation, where from November 2003 to March 2008 he served as president of Teekay Tanker Services, with responsibility for the company’s fleet of crude and product tankers.

Prior to joining Teekay Corporation, Mr Wogan served as chief executive officer of Seachem Tankers Ltd. Mr Wogan is also a director of The United Kingdom Mutual Steam Ship Assurance Association (Europe) Limited and from 2009 to 2014 was a non-executive director of Sure Wind Marine Ltd., a company that owns and operates vessels that provide services to the offshore wind industry.

Mr Wogan is a graduate of Exeter University and has an MBA from Cranfield School of Management.

Bruce L. Blythe (Independent) has been a member of our board of directors since October 2011.

Mr. Blythe has been involved in the shipping industry for over 20 years, having served as an advisor to the Livanos family since 1994. For nearly 30 years, Mr. Blythe has served as an advisor on finance and strategy to the Chairman and CEO of Ford Motor Company and to the Ford family, and prior to his service as an advisor he was employed in various strategic and financial positions at Ford Motor Company.

He also serves as a director of Ceres Shipping, our largest shareholder and is Vice-Chairman of the Ceres Group.

Mr. Blythe holds an M.B.A. in finance and transportation and a B.A. in business administration from the Pennsylvania State University.

David P. Conner (Independent) has been a member of our Board of Directors since the 2016 AGM.

Mr Conner has a long history in the banking industry, most recently as Chief Executive Officer of OCBC Bank Ltd. in Singapore from 2002 to 2012.

Prior to OCBC, Mr Conner worked for Citibank for 26 years. Until recently, Mr Conner served as a director on the board of OCBC Bank Ltd., where he also sat on the executive committee and risk management committee.

He was also a member of the board of directors of GasLog Partners and its audit committee until May 2016.

Mr Conner is also active with the board of trustees of Washington University in St. Louis where he chairs the medical finance committee

On January 1, 2016, Mr Conner was appointed a director of Standard Chartered Bank plc. where he chairs the risk committee and sits on the audit committee, financial crime risk committee and governance and nominating committee.

Mr Conner received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 1974 and an M.B.A. from Columbia University Business School in 1976.

Dennis M. Houston (Independent) has been a member of our board of directors since June 2013, and he currently serves as vice-chairman and our senior independent director. At the time Mr. Houston joined the board he had approximately 40 years of total experience in the Downstream Sector of the Oil and Gas industry. Mr Houston retired from ExxonMobil on May 31, 2010, after over 35 years with Exxon and then ExxonMobil.

Mr Houston’s positions at retirement were Executive Vice President Refining & Supply Company, Chairman and President of ExxonMobil Sales & Supply LLC, and Chairman of Standard Tankers Bahamas Limited. He currently serves as Director of Suncor Energy Inc., Argus Media Limited L.L.C., ABS Group and is an active member of several other energy-related organisations.

Mr Houston holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois and an Honorary Doctorate of Public Administration Degree from Massachusetts Maritime Academy.

Donald J. Kintzer (independent) has been a member of our board of directors since November 2014.

Mr. Kintzer is a retired partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP,  having retired in 2008 after an association of over 31 years. He was admitted to the partnership in 1988 and served in various roles during his career.

Mr. Kintzer is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive) and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) and the California Society of CPAs.

Mr. Kintzer is a member of the board of directors of California Bank of Commerce and a member of the board of governors of Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and Los Alamos National Security, LLC.

Mr. Kintzer was appointed Chairman of our audit and risk committee in March 2015. He was also a member of the board of directors of GasLog Partners and its audit committee until March 2015, and served as a member of its conflicts committee until his appointment to our board in November 2014 and as audit committee chairman until March 2015.

Mr. Kintzer received an A.B. from Lafayette College and an M.B.A. from Pennsylvania State University. Prior to graduate school, Mr. Kintzer served as an officer in the United States Air Force.

Julian R. Metherell has been a member of our board of directors since October 2011. Mr. Metherell was the chief financial officer and a director of Genel Energy plc, a leading independent oil and gas exploration and production company operating in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Genel Energy plc is the successor to Vallares Plc, a publicly listed acquisition company which Mr. Metherell co-founded in April 2011.

From 1999 to 2011, Mr. Metherell was a partner at The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., where he served as chief executive officer of the UK investment banking division. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Mr. Metherell was a director in the European energy group at Dresdner Kleinwort, a London-based investment bank. Mr. Metherell is a graduate of Manchester University, where he received a B.Sc. degree, and of Cambridge University, where he received an M.B.A.

Anthony S. Papadimitriou (Independent) has been a member of our board of directors since November 2011, when he was designated by the Onassis Foundation to serve as one of our directors.

Mr. Papadimitriou is the managing partner of the law firm A.S. Papadimitriou and Partners, a position he has held since 1990.

From 1986 until 2005, Mr. Papadimitriou served as legal counsel for Olympic Shipping & Management S.A, an affiliate of the Onassis Foundation, and since 1995 he has been the coordinator of the Executive Committee of the commercial activities controlled by the Onassis Foundation. In addition, Mr. Papadimitriou has been a member of the board of directors of the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation since 1988, serving as the president of the board since 2005.

Mr. Papadimitriou is a graduate of the Athens University Law School and holds a postgraduate degree in maritime and transport law from the University Aix-en-Provence, a B.Sc. from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Mr. Papadimitriou was appointed to the Board of GasLog Partners in May 2015 and stepped down on January 31, 2019.

Graham Westgarth has been a member of our board of directors since our annual general meeting in May 2017. He served as Chief Operating Officer from June 2013 to July of 2017.

From 1999 through 2012, Mr. Westgarth was a member of the Senior Leadership team of Teekay Shipping, most recently serving as executive vice president of innovation, technology and projects of Teekay Shipping, which included commercial and operational responsibility for a number of FSO’s.

From 2001 to 2010, Mr. Westgarth served as president, Teekay Marine Services with responsibility for 5,000 sea and shore staff and the technical management of 200 vessels. During this period he also served as chief executive officer of Teekay Petrojarl following its acquisition by Teekay Corporation.

From 1987 to 1999, Mr. Westgarth was employed by Maersk Company Limited, the last 5 years of which he served as General Manager of the Maersk UK flag fleet. From 2009 to 2014, Mr. Westgarth was the chairman of INTERTANKO, an industry organization, which represents 80% of the world’s independent tanker owners and operators.

Mr. Westgarth also sits on the boards of V.Group and Seagull Maritime AS, and is the Chairman of the ABS UK Advisory Committee.