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Crew Connect Global Conference & Exhibition

Mark O'Neil
President/ President & CEO at InterManager/ Columbia Shipmanagement
Speaker

Profile

Mark O'Neil is the President of Columbia Shipmanagement Ltd. A maritime lawyer by profession, as a Partner with Stephenson Harwood LLP and Reed Smith LLP for 17 years, Mark headed up international law firm Reed Smith LLP's German Shipping Team, and also co-lead the firm's Offshore Department. His clients included Ship Owners, Charterers, Insurers, Management Companies, Banks, Oil Companies and Offshore Contractors worldwide with a particular focus on the German, Scandinavian, Greek, Dutch, South American and Cypriot markets. He therefore has an in-depth knowledge of the shipping, ship management, banking and offshore sectors.

Mark chairs and/or speaks at numerous maritime and banking conferences and seminars worldwide. He is a passionate advocate of performance optimisation within the shipping and ship management industry and regularly speaks on this matter together with the related topic of digitalisation.

Mark O’Neil is currently serving a second two-year term as President of InterManager, the international trade association for the ship management sector.

He has spearheaded the introduction of industry-wide General Principles of Conduct and Action for ship managers, which was launched just last week during London International Shipping Week.