Janet is an experienced international professional in the yachting and aviation sectors, with two Master’s degrees in International/European and Maritime Law. With over 20 years of experience across Europe, the US, and Asia, she has become a respected industry figure, serving as an arbitrator, ambassador, and board member of leading yachting associations. She has held…

Hein Velema has an extensive yachting industry background having worked with world-renowned shipyards (Feadship, ISA and Icon), brokerage firms (Fraser, Engel & Volkers and TWW Yachts) and trade associations (HISWA, Holland Yachting Group, SYBAss, LYBRA and IYBA). Hein has held numerous brokerage sales and charter management positions, and served as CEO of Fraser Yachts for…

Nicolas Valin is the founder and CEO of Neo Yachting, a company based in Nice which offers luxury services such as yacht sales and purchase, yacht charter, charter marketing, management, consulting and new construction. His other main skills in yacht sales and purchase leads him to be a partner at two companies specialized in this…

Originally qualifying in Sydney, Australia, Jay has been a partner at HFW in London since 1992. He is co-head of HFW’s yacht team. He specializes in yacht and ship building, yacht and ship sale and purchase, and he has broader experience in yacht, ship and asset finance, corporate law and international trade. He speaks French…

Iñigo Toledo, Head Designer, CEO and Founder of Barracuda Yacht Design. Naval Architecture Studio dedicated to Motoryachts and Sailing Yachts design since 1989. Cooperated with other top Naval Architects such as Donald Blount, German Frers, Reichel/Pugh or Judel/Vrolijk in various One Off Projects. Participated in two America’s Cup campaigns with the Spanish Team 1992 and…

Gianfranco is a lawyer and founding partner of PG Legal and head of the Luxury Assets Team based in Milan, Italy. Gianfranco has been advising clients in the yachting industry for more than 25 years representing luxury yacht builders and UHNWI in building, purchasing and selling yachts in Italy and internationally. He also advises leading…

Large Yacht Manager, Naval Architect, Marine Engineer, Graduate of USMMA (Kings Point). Expertise in commercial yacht operations, maintenance and repair, design, construction, yacht systems/operations, and vessel regulatory compliance; President, Aereon Marine, Inc. & Horizon Naval Architects, Inc., Licensed professional engineer (U.S.), chartered engineer (U.K.). Shipboard engineer (3 years), Vessel Operations (20 years), ABS (23 years),…

Richard Lambert, is Head of Sales at Burgess implementing the overall strategy to boost sales across the board. He joined Burgess in 2005 as managing director of the OceanStyle semi-custom division, then left to become M Class Director for Princess Yachts in 2013. In 2014 he returned to Burgess as a senior Sales Broker, specializing…

Born in New Zealand with a Dutch nationality, then lived in Austria, Italy, Netherlands, Great Britain, Saudi Arabia and Germany, Michael Breman can be described as a multi-cultural, speaking five languages fluently. Coincidences took him to Saudi Arabia to work for a capital goods trading company based in Jeddah as marketing manager. After seven years…

Certified Chartered Accountant in Genoa, specialist in the Blue Economy tax issues. Author and co-author in publications about tax on specialist periodicals and newspapers, speaker in events and teacher in training events and workshops on the tax issues in the shipping and yachting area organized by professional and trade associations and international organizations. She works…