Navios Maritime Acquisition Corp.
Board of Directors | Management Team
Angeliki Frangou
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Angeliki Frangou
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Director

Angeliki Frangou has been Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since inception. Ms. Frangou is also Chairman and CEO of Navios Maritime Holdings Inc. – Navios Acquisition’s sponsor – since August 2005. In addition, Ms. Frangou serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Navios Partners, an affiliated limited partnership trading on the New York Stock Exchange, since August 2007. Ms. Frangou is also the Chairman of the board of directors of Navios ... 
Ted C. Petrone
President and Director
Ted C. Petrone
President and Director

Ted C. Petrone has been our President and a member of our Board of Directors since March 2008. He has also been a director of Navios Holdings since May 2007, having become President of Navios Corporation in September 2006. He heads Navios Holdings' worldwide commercial operations. Mr. Petrone has served in the maritime industry for 35 years, 31 of which he has spent with Navios Holdings. After joining Navios Holdings as an assistant vessel operator, Mr. Petrone worked there in various operationa... 
Anna Kalathakis
Director, Senior Vice President - Legal Risk Management
Anna Kalathakis
Director, Senior Vice President - Legal Risk Management

Anna Kalathakis has been a member of our board of directors and Senior Vice President—Legal Risk Management since May 2010. Ms. Kalathakis has been Senior Vice President—Legal Risk Management of Navios Maritime Holdings Inc. since December 2005. Before joining Navios Holdings, Ms. Kalathakis was the General Manager of the Greek office of A Bilbrough & Co. Ltd. (Managers of the London Steam-Ship Owners' Mutual Insurance Association Limited, the "London P&I Club") and an Associate Director of the ... 
George Galatis
Director
George Galatis
Director

George Galatis has served as a member of our board of directors since July 2010. He is currently the Executive Vice President — Product Development at Demo Pharmaceutical Industry having served as a Senior Vice President — Project Development since 1999. Mr Galatis has also served as a Technical Manager in Pharmaceutical Industry Projects at Telos Consulting Ltd. of London from 1994 to 1999. Previously, Mr. Galatis has served as an Engineer, Technical Manager and Product Manager in various shipp... 
John Koilalous
Director
John Koilalous
Director

John Koilalous has been a member of our board of directors since June 2008. Mr. Koilalous began his career in the shipping industry in the City of London in 1949, having worked for various firms both in London and Piraeus. He entered the adjusting profession in 1969, having worked for Francis and Arnold for some 18 years and then with Pegasus Adjusting Services Ltd., of which he was the founder and, until his retirement at the end of 2008, the managing director. He still remains active in an adv... 
Brigitte Noury
Director
Brigitte Noury
Director

Brigitte Noury has been a member of our board of directors since May 2010. Ms. Noury served from March 2002 until December 2009 as Director of Corporate & Investment Banking Asset & Recovery Management — Europe for Societe Generale. She also served from June 1989 until February 2002 as Head of Shipping at Societe Generale. She also served as Vice President — Shipping at Banque Indosuez from 1987 to 1989. Before that Ms. Noury served as financial controller at Banque Internationale pour l'Afrique... 
Nikolaos Veraros, CFA
Director
Nikolaos Veraros, CFA
Director

Nikolaos Veraros, CFA, has been a member of our Board of Directors since June 2008. Mr. Veraros is a senior analyst at Investments & Finance Ltd., where he has worked since August 2001, and also from June 1997 to February 1999. From March 1999 to August 2001, Mr. Veraros worked as a senior equity analyst for National Securities, S.A., a subsidiary of National Bank of Greece. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), a Certified Market Maker for Derivatives in the Athens Stock Exchange, and a Ce... 
Vasiliki Papaefthymiou
Secretary
Vasiliki Papaefthymiou
Secretary

Vasiliki Papaefthymiou was appointed our Secretary since inception. Ms. Papaefthymiou has been Executive Vice President — Legal and a member of Navios Holdings' board of directors since August 25, 2005, and prior to that was a member of the board of directors of ISE. Ms. Papaefthymiou has served as general counsel for Maritime Enterprises Management S.A. since October 2001, where she has advised the company on shipping, corporate and finance legal matters. Ms. Papaefthymiou provided similar serv...