Tom Boardley, Lloyd’s Register

Tom Boardley is Marine Director of Lloyd’s Register, which provides ship classification services to a large global fleet. Founded in the City of London in 1760, Lloyd’s Register works closely with shipbuilders, shipowners and insurers to ensure ships are safe to operate throughout their life. It also provides technical advice to the marine industry on environmental and regulatory matters.  Tom joined Lloyd’s Register in April 2009 and is responsible for worldwide operations as well as strategy and business development.

Prior to joining Lloyd’s Register, Tom had held several senior management positions in the container shipping and ports industry. At the Japanese shipping giant NYK, he had managed the European operations for the container shipping division, including the co-ordination of related activities including inland logistics and supply chain management for major Japanese manufacturers.

At P&O Ports, Tom had led business development and acquisitions activity, helping build a global network of container ports that was acquired by Dubai Ports World in 2006. He had also managed the Canadian business post-acquisition, based for a year inVancouverB.C.

For the first 24 years of Tom’s career, he was with the container shipping division of P&O, originally trading as OCL and subsequently as P&O Nedlloyd. He held various management roles in the UK,Taiwan, Korea and Japan before being appointed as Director for Australia and New Zealand, based in Sydney, in 1996.

Tom is an engineering graduate of Oxford University and is also a fellow of the Royal Institute of Naval Architects.

Mark Trundle, Kingfisher Group

Mark Trundle has worked in various Retail Supply Chain roles for the last 23 years. The majority of the time has been spent within B&Q and Kingfisher, based in the UK, encompassing commercial, financial and logistics responsibilities. He was one of the original team who established B&Q’s central logistics function in 1990.

Currently he manages International Logistics for the Kingfisher Group (which includes B&Q), the 3rd largest DIY retailer in the world. He gained a B.Sc. in Biochemistry and trained as an accountant before moving to a career in Logistics.

 

Dorothea Carvalho, Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport

Dorothea Carvalho is director of professional development at the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the UK.

During her career, Dorothea has worked extensively with companies in the UK and worldwide developing training programmes and qualifications to meet the needs of individuals, industry and the profession. She is an advocate of training and development that equips people with the right skills for today and which also focuses on the future needs of the logistics profession.

 

Jesper Kjaedegaard, Mercator International

Jesper Kjaedegaard is a Partner at Mercator International, an international consulting firm specialising in ports and marine infrastructure. In this capacity he regularly engages with vessel and port owners/operators as well as potential investors with an emphasis on emerging markets.

 Before joining Mercator in 2008, Mr. Kjaedegaard had a long and distinguished career with the A.P.Moller-Maersk Group where he was Group Senior Vice President and a member of the Group’s Executive Board for Container Business, heading up the company’s global liner services. He was also deeply involved in developing the Group’s container terminal activities, now better known as APMT. In 2005 he relocated to the UK to become CEO of the Group’s activities in the UK, until he left the company in 2008.  

Mr Kjaedegaard currently also serves as a Non-Executive Board Director for a number of marine and transport related companies in the UK and South America, and he is also past President of the UK Chamber of Shipping and Chairman of Maritime UK.

James Tweed, Chartered Shipbroker

James Tweed is a chartered shipbroker, a past Chairman of the London branch of the ICS and a Member of the Institute of Directors. Armed with a BSc (Hons) in Maritime Business and Marine Law, James spent the 1990’s at Seascope Shipping working as a tanker broker.

In 2001 James was involved in forming Global Freight Forwards (GFF). GFF was created as a joint venture between Seascope, Braemar, EA Gibson, Galbraiths and PVM, to begin broking the emerging commodity product of Tanker Freight Forward Agreements. James left his role as senior broker at GFF to join the global energy brokers, Tradition Financial Services (TFS) to create and manage a freight desk. James worked at TFS as a member of the executive committee until 2004 when he became a founding director of Azimuth Marine Management Ltd, the first hedge fund based on a freight derivatives strategy.

James is the founder and Managing Director of Coracle Online, specialists in delivering knowledge online via eLearning, podcasts and mobile apps.