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.

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.