Rex W. Harrington has served as a director of our company since May 2001. Mr. Harrington has served as Shipping Advisor to The Royal Bank of Scotland plc since his retirement in 1998. Mr. Harrington served as Director of Shipping of The Royal Bank of Scotland plc from 1990 to 1998, Assistant General Manager, Shipping from 1980 to 1990 and Senior Manager, Shipping from 1973 to 1980. From 1969 to 1973, Mr. Harrington served as an executive of Baring Brothers & Co., Ltd., an international merchant-banking firm, and from 1957 to 1969 served in various capacities in the Bank of England ending as Secretary of the Foreign Exchange Control Committee. Mr. Harrington currently serves as Deputy Chairman of the International Maritime Industries Forum, as a Director of the International Chamber of Commerce, Commercial Crime Services, which incorporated the International Maritime Bureau, and as a member of the General Committee of Lloyds Register of Shipping, London Advisory Panel of InterCargo, the Baltic Exchange and the Steering Committee of the London Shipping Law Center. Mr. Harrington was previously a Director of H. Clarkson Limited (International Shipbrokers) from 1995 to 1998 and a Director of Lloyds Register of Shipping from 1994 to 1999. |