Jim Rhodes is president of Rhodes Communications, Inc., a PR company specializing in the international maritime sector for more than 25 years. He is also president and editor-in-chief of Marine NewsWire, a business wire service dedicated to the marine industry. He has written scores of articles, AV scripts, brochures, advertising and white papers on maritime technologies, and has spoken at numerous [...]

A well known maritime industry executive who began his career as a naval architect writing a thesis on the then cutting edge Inmarsat-C system. Having been headhunted to run Inmarsat’s training and worldwide partner programme, he travelled the world working with LESOs, PTTs and solution providers until he joined IMC as their Managing Director in 1999. As part of the [...]

A high calibre executive Michael has worked with companies including Monsanto, Tesco and was General Manager of Inmarsat subsidiary INVSAT. He specialises in Interim Management, Strategic planning, Business turnaround, new products, markets and service launch, delivering a complete strategic review, then introducing change to achieve greater technical and operational focus in line with need, higher revenue, improved relationships and increased [...]

Ferdi Stolzenberg is the Asian Regional Director of the MTI Network. Based in Hong Kong since 1984, he is also CEO of MTI Network (Asia) and maritimemarketing, set up to organize, co-ordinate and promote a week of maritime related conferences in Hong Kong, to propmote Hong Kong as the Gateway to Greater China and the maritime powerhouses of Korea and [...]