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George Kassiotis (President, Chief Executive Officer and Director) has served as our President, Chief Executive Officer and Director since our inception in February 2005. Prior to joining us, since 1996 Mr. Kassiotis was the commercial director of our Drybulk Manager and since 1999 he led, as a senior executive director, the development of our Drybulk Manager's business and oversaw its growth and expansion. In this capacity Mr. Kassiotis has been responsible for vessel sale and purchase, project development, financing and other transactions effected by other shipowning affiliates of our Drybulk Manager, including the development of Horizon Tankers Ltd., which contracted twelve newbuilding product tankers since 2002. Mr. Kassiotis comes from a shipping family and has been involved in various sectors of the shipping industry, under the family business for 15 years. Mr. Kassiotis graduated from the Universite de Paris, Pantheon-Sorbonne, France in 1993, where he studied international business law, and holds a Masters degree in law from the University of London, England. | 