Meet The Team

Alex Routledge

CEO & Founder

• Experience: Technical entrepreneur and product leader

• Naval Architect, Royal Dutch Shell: Design, engineering & construction of maritime assets

• Technical Superintendent, Qatar Gas: LNG Fleet Management

• Project Engineer, Full scale installation & performance verification of Air Lubrication system

• MBA Candidate, Said Business School, Oxford

• Master of Engineering (Honors) Naval Architecture, Newcastle University

• Bachelor of Engineering in Marine Technology Newcastle University

Roger Armson

Chairman and Company Secretary

• Director & Chairman of the Board: Larne Harbour Ltd & Port of Cairnryan Ltd

• Consultant and small business operator

• Operations Director: Stena Line, DFDS, Norfolkline (Maersk), Norse Merchant Ferries

• Business Development Director: Antrak International (CMA CGM)

• Operations Director: OT Africa Line (CMA CGM)

• Navigating Officer onboard general cargo & tanker vessels trading world wide

• MBA, Kingston University

• Certificate of Competency, Deck Officer, unlimited

Johann van der Merwe

 Finance Director

• ​Consultant, RAND Strategy Advisors

• Investment Banking Analyst, Barclays Africa Group

• MBA Candidate, Said Business School, University of Oxford

• CFA Charterholder

• Bachelor of Commerce (Honors) Investment Management, University of Johannesburg

• Bachelor of Commerce in Finance, University of Johannesburg

Mike Delisle

Marine Engineer

• Former Chief Engineer on deep sea merchant vessels.

• Former shore based Technical Superintendent responsible for safe, reliable and cost-effective maintenance, repair, dry-dock works and relationships with the MCA and classification societies at companies such as V Ship, Maersk, DFDS and Stena Line for their respective RoPax and Freight ferry fleets operating in the Irish Sea.