Appendix 1
Candidates for the Board of Directors
Proposed re-elected as chair
Proposed re-elected as member Proposed elected as member
Andreas Sohmen-Pao | David Cogman | Andrea Abt |
Chairman of the Board | Board member |
Born 1971, Austrian | Born 1974, British |
Elected for the first time in 2021 | Elected for the first time in 2021 |
Born 1960, German
New member of the Board of Directors
Indenpendency assessment | Non-independent | Non-independent | Independent | |||
Board commitees | ▪ Member of the Remuneration | ▪ | Member of the Audit Committee | ▪ | N/A | |
Committee | ||||||
Other appointments and board | ▪ | BW Group, Chairman | ▪ | Swire Pacific Limited, Executive | ▪ | Energy Technology Holdings LLC |
positions | ▪ | BW Offshore Ltd., Chairman | Director | / Exide Technologies, Non- | ||
▪ | John Swire & Sons (H.K.) Ltd., | Executive Director | ||||
▪ BW Energy Ltd., Chairman | ||||||
Non-Executive Director | ▪ | Gerresheimer AG, Member of the | ||||
▪ BW LPG Ltd., Chairman | ▪ | Hong Kong Philharmonic Society, | ||||
Supervisory Board | ||||||
Chairman | ||||||
▪ BW Epic Kosan Ltd., Chairman | ||||||
▪ | Hafnia Ltd., Chairman | ▪ Member of the UK Royal | ||||
Statistical Society | ||||||
▪ Navigator Holdings, Member of | ||||||
the Board of Directors | ||||||
▪ Global Centre for Maritime | ||||||
Decarbonisation, Chairman | ||||||
▪ | Lloyd's Register Foundation, | |||||
Trustee | ||||||
Special qualifications | ▪ Mr. Sohmen-Pao has held several | ▪ | Mr. Cogman has indepth | ▪ | Ms Abt has held several board | |
leadership and board positions in | experience within corporate | positions in globally active public | ||||
listed companies and has | finance and strategy including | and private companies and has a | ||||
extensive experience in the | listed companies in the transport | comprehensive functional know- | ||||
global shipping and offshore | and logistics sector | how of procurement & logistics, | ||||
industry | ▪ | MBA from Stanford University | finance & controlling and a | |||
▪ | Honours degree in Oriental | and Bachelor's degree from | proven background in M&A | |||
London School of Economics. | activities | |||||
Studies from Oxford University | ||||||
Member of the UK Royal | ||||||
and an MBA from Harvard | ▪ | MBA from Rotman School of | ||||
Statistical Society. | ||||||
Business School. | Management, Toronto | |||||
▪ | Previously partner at McKinsey | |||||
▪ | Degree in English and Spanish | |||||
& Company in its Hong Kong |
office. | Philology from Rheinische |
Friedrich-Wilhelms University, | |
Bonn | |
Candidates for the Nomination Committee
Proposed elected as chair
Sophie Smith
Born 1985, British
New member of the Nomination
Committee
Indenpendency assessment | Non-independent |
Board commitees | ▪ N/A |
Other appointments and board | ▪ BW Group, Chief Human |
positions | Resources Officer |
▪ Nomination Committee Chair of | |
Hafnia, BW LPG, BWEK and BWO | |
Special qualifications | ▪ Chief Human Resources Officer in |
BW group. | |
▪ Experience with international HR | |
Leadership from Experian, 3i and | |
the Royal Bank of Scotland. | |
▪ First class honours degree in | |
Geography from Durham | |
University and member of the | |
Chartered Institute for Personnel | |
and Development. | |