People

Peter Ahlås

Deputy Chairman (London)

T: +44 7787 405 050

E: peter@csolutionslimited.com

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Jim Allsworth

Regional Director - Greece, Claims Director (Greece)

T: +30 6949 079727

T: +44 7747 637 873

E: jim@csolutionslimited.com

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Ben Beesley

Commercial Director (London)

T: +44 7970 705 413

E: benbeesley@csolutionslimited.com

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Chris Beesley

Group Executive Chairman (Singapore)

UK T: +44 7785 340654

SING T: +65 9662 3331

E: chris@csolutionslimited.com

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Clive Beesley

Claims Director (London & Hong Kong)

T: +852 9096 9561

E: clivebeesley@csolutionslimited.com

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Jacqui Beesley

Marketing Director (Singapore)

T: +66 831 714 747

E: jacqui@csolutionslimited.com

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Chris Charalambides

Senior Claims Executive (London)

Solicitor (England & Wales)

T: +44 7980 920 634

E: chara@csolutionslimited.com

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Sacha Christopher

Senior Claims Executive (London)

Solicitor (Australia, South Africa)

T: +44 7532 498 986

E: sacha@csolutionslimited.com

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Ben Horn

Consultant

Solicitor (England & Wales)

T: +44 7801 953 676

E: ben@csolutionslimited.com

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Kevin Lugg

Group Chief Executive (London)

T: +44 7990 778411

E: kevinlugg@csolutionslimited.com

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Peter Mills

Senior Claims Consultant (Hong Kong)

T: +852 9861 4022

E: petermills@csolutionslimited.com

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Sam Parsons

Claims Executive (London)

T: +44 7923 276 264

E: sam@csolutionslimited.com

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Yan Salleh

Claims Executive (Singapore)

T: +65 6323 7732

E: yan@csolutionslimited.com

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Chris Telford

Claims Director (London)

T: +44 7729 434 865

E: christelford@csolutionslimited.com

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Network Partners

Europe

Irene Ballini

Legal Consultant (Monaco)

T: +377 9777 8090

E: monaco@csolutionslimited.com

Irene holds a PhD in International Commercial Law and a Masters in Economic and Business Law. In

2002 she joined our network partner Enrico Mazier Law Office in Monaco, which became SCS Mazier,

Ballini & Cie in 2012. Irene advises on the full range of marine contracts, claims and disputes and has

experience of the full range of yacht matters.

Andrew Goldsworthy

Senior Claims Executive (London)

Yacht Master, Solicitor (England & Wales)

T: +44 7860 499 852

E: andrew@csolutionslimited.com

With a distinguished career in marine law in the City of London dating back to 1972, Andrew was formerly a Partner of Ince & Co and has many years’ experience in the shipping and insurance arena. He is a passionate yachtsman and in addition to dealing with casualty case matters has been involved in Super Yacht cases in which C Solutions have been engaged. Andrew is a qualified diver and RYA Yachtmaster.

Guy Morel

Marketing Director (Monaco)

T: +33 6 8086 0986

E: monaco@csolutionslimited.com

Guy Morel has held senior management positions in ship owning and ship management companies since 1979. He is former General Secretary of the International Ship Managers Association (InterManager). Guy was President of the New York listed shipowning company, MC Shipping Inc., and prior to that was Vice President of Marketing and a Founder of the Monaco-based ship manager V Ships. He is also a Professor of Corporate Finance at the University of Monaco. Guy holds an MSc Eng from the Ecole Centrale de Paris and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He sits on the boards of several shipping companies and is a member of various professional clubs and societies.

David van Bemmel

Legal Consultant (Rotterdam)

Lawyer qualified in Netherlands

T: +31 10 411 41 46

E: rotterdam@csolutionslimited.com

David van Bemmel is an associate of our Rotterdam based network partner Langelaar Klinkhamer Advocaten B.V. In his capacity as a lawyer (admitted to the Rotterdam bar) he handles a wide variety of wet and dry contentious and non-contentious shipping work in close co-operation with Erik Klinkhamer.

Robert Volante

Senior Claims Executive (London)

Master Mariner

T: +44 7779 643 725

E: technical@csolutionslimited.com

A qualified Master Mariner, Bob spent 11 years at sea on a variety of vessels including general cargo, reefer and bulk carriers ranging up to 80,000 tonnes. He has since worked in various roles associated with marine risk management and marine insurance, including three years as a Marine Surveyor and three years as a Cargo Underwriter in the UK cargo insurance market. In 1995, he became Director of Latin American marine operations for CIGNA Insurance Company, responsible for the development and control of their marine insurance and risk management operation. Bob founded the CSL Group in 2000. The Group owns or operates marine survey and technical consultancy businesses in the UK, North America, Latin America, Middle East and Asia, with offices in more than 20 locations.

Middle East

Americas

Bernardo Bentata

Senior Claims Executive (Venezuela and Costa Rica)

Lawyer qualified in Venezuela and Louisiana

T: +58 212 953 2031

E: venezuela@csolutionslimited.com

Bernardo is founding partner of Bentata & Associates and a graduate of Universidad Catolica Andres Bello. He went on to complete the Master in Comparative Jurisprudence at New York University before completing the Master of Laws in Admiralty Law at Tulane University, New Orleans. He was then admitted to the Louisiana State Bar Association. He advises on the full range of maritime and insurance issues.

As well as being a co-drafter of the recently passed Venezuela Law on Maritime Procedure, Bernardo has been a guest speaker on numerous topics in shipping law and has acted as an expert in Venezuelan law for litigation in Panama, USA, Italy, The Netherlands, Trinidad & Tobago and the UK.

David Hawes

Senior Claims Executive (Houston)

Mariner

T: +1 832 226 4596

E: technical@csolutionslimited.com

David Hawes has over 35 years' experience in the maritime industry in a variety of roles at sea and ashore. He served with the US Coast Guard where he progressed from Machinery

Technician to Engineering Officer and ultimately to Commanding Officer. David has a wide range of hands-on marine engineering experience with diesel electric, steam turbine and combined diesel gas turbine propulsion systems and all associated auxiliary engine room machinery and equipment. He also spent three years as a Marine Inspector and Investigator at the port of Galveston investigating groundings, fire, collision and personal injury incidents, and a further two years as Chief Inspector for new building and vessel compliance inspections in Morgan City. Since 2008, David has worked as a Senior Marine Surveyor attending to a range of specialist marine survey requirements, including Hull & Machinery and cargo claims, project cargo warranty surveys, and vessel inspections for both Blue water and Brown water risks.

James Ruggiero

Senior Claims Executive (New York)

T: +1 917 754 1728

E: technical@csolutionslimited.com

With over 34 years of cargo and marine survey experience, Jim is well qualified to lead and facilitate timely quality service and superior standards. He actively participates across all business lines through his extensive experience in loss prevention, claims adjusting, and recovery operations. He has a wealth of specialized knowledge in management, infrastructure, and operation of global cargo and marine transportation services and is a member of Technical Services Committee for the American Institute of Marine Underwriters.

Estela Vazquez

Senior Claims Executive (Buenos Aires)

Lawyer qualified in Argentina

T: +54 11 4819 1400

E: argentina@csolutionslimited.com

Estela graduated as lawyer from Argentina Catholic University in 1979. She worked at Mathé Law Firm (specialized in maritime law) until 1984. Afterwards, she joined Maruba (Maritime Navigation Company) as internal lawyer until 1991 and as Legal, Insurance and Claims Manager from 1991 until 2011. She took seminaries organized by the Instituto Argentino de Derecho Marítimo (“Argentine Institute for Maritime Law”), Instituto Iberoamericano de Derecho Marítimo (“Iberoamerican Institute for Maritime Law”), Comité Marítimo Internacional (“International Maritime Committee”), Assurance foreningen Gard and Marsh Oslo, among others.

Asia

Henry Lee

Consultant (Shanghai)

Lawyer qualified in China

T: +86 1381 7860 609

E: shanghai@csolutionslimited.com

Being a Chambers and Legal 500 recommended shipping lawyer in China, Henry handles both dry and wet claims from collision to cargo damage to personal injury. He is a partner of Sloma & Co, a leading Chinese shipping law firm based in Shanghai, and in the meantime sits as an arbitrator of CIETAC.

Orawan McCall

Senior Claims Executive (Bangkok)

T: +66 8600 88011

E: bangkok@csolutionslimited.com

Ora's career touches almost every aspect of involvement in shipowning, insurance and claims. She has an LLB and an LLM from London and after eight years working for a leading Asia-based container line she set up, with support from C Solutions, and is now Managing Director of Crossroads Solution Ltd, our partners in Bangkok. Ora has vast experience dealing with all types of marine claims and contracts, and she and her legally qualified staff assist us in handling complex legal and claims projects.

M. Aminul Islam Nazir

Senior Claims Consultant (Bangladesh)

T: +88 01978 120289

E: bangladesh@csolutionslimited.com

M. Aminul Islam Nazir is a qualified advocate in Bangladesh with more than a decade of experience in transport liability claims. He gained a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) and Masters of Laws (LLM) from the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. He began his career in maritime industry with a P&I correspondent firm in Bangladesh as its legal counsel. In 2009, he moved to establish a marine claims & legal consulting firm where he handles full range of P&I and FD&D claims with an emphasis on trans-border marine debt recovery and claims enforcement works.

Ashwin Shanker

Senior Claims Executive (Mumbai)

Lawyer qualified in India

T: +91 9821 371 075

E: india@csolutionslimited.com

Ashwin is a well-respected leading maritime lawyer in India with wide ranging experience, including as Arbitrator in charter party disputes, specialising in urgent ship arrests in a practice with a 30 year proven track record. This includes several landmark cases in India. Ashwin has dealt with many London arbitration cases and has given expert evidence on Indian maritime law in various jurisdictions including in New York and in Singapore.

Australasia

Alex Evered

Senior Claims Executive (Sydney)

T: +61 438 663 466

E: australia@csolutionslimited.com

Alex has over 20 years of experience in the maritime industry with significant expertise in P&I and H&M. She gained extensive experience in marine cargo claims and P&I related matters initially with Lloyd’s of London and later with the Gard P&I Club. Alex moved "Down Under" in 1997 and handles all types of marine matters throughout Australia, including Carriage of Goods by Sea, General Average, Pollution, ITF disputes and serious crew injuries.

Neale Proctor

Senior Claims Consultant (Papua New Guinea)

T: +61 423 699 627

E: australia@csolutionslimited.com

A graduate of Liverpool John Moores University, Neale has over 35 years experience in the shipping industry.

Neale started his career as a seagoing Deck Officer for ten years, serving on tankers and anchor handling tug supply vessels. After a period working ashore at the Newcastle P&I association, handling a variety of incidents and claims, he joined a leading global shipping, logistics & marine services company, based in Dubai, where he established and managed a regional network of P&I Correspondents across the Middle East.

After 11 years in Dubai, Neale moved to Indonesia, and took on the Country Manager role at GAC, handling a wide variety of vessel types at ports & terminals across the archipelago. .

Neale has also worked extensively in Nigeria, Ghana and Turkmenistan in a variety of roles in the shipping and logistics industry including country manager and developed a network of partner and sub agent arrangements from Mauritania to Gabon.

Willum Richards

Senior Claims Consultant (New Zealand)

T: +64 3 443 5134

E: nz@csolutionslimited.com

Willum is Chairman of the Association of Average Adjusters and has over 25 years' experience in the international marine and non-marine insurance claims field specialising in areas including hull, cargo, builders risks, and ship repairers liability. His career has seen him work in the UK, USA, India, Singapore, Hong Kong and New Zealand. Willum focusses on his wide range of clients in South East Asia, Australasia and the Pacific Islands.

Hans Langsrud

Marine Consultant (Hong Kong)

T: +852 9855 3444

E: hans@csolutionslimited.com

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Natalia Malashkina

Claims Executive (Singapore)

T: +65 8611 3272

E: natalia@csolutionslimited.com

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Akshay Misra

Consultant, Claims (London)

Solicitor (England & Wales)

T: +44 7852 377 140

E: akshay@csolutionslimited.com

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Mike Peachey

C Solutions Energy

T: +44 7712 869 565

E: mikepeachey@csolutionslimited.com

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Ron Sim

General Manager (Singapore)

Barrister/Solicitor

T: +65 9662 9770

E: ron@csolutionslimited.com

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David Williams

C Solutions Energy

T: +44 7730 257 191

E: davidwilliams@csolutionslimited.com

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