Directors and Responsibilities
Koert van Wissen, Chief Executive Officer
Koert van Wissen was born on 04 February 1952. Koert van Wissen joined UTT’s predecessor, United Bos BV, in 1980 and, from 1980 to 1983, was employed as general manager of the Rotterdam Europoort office and was responsible for day-to-day running of the liquid bulk business between England and the European continent in road-tankers. Between 1983 and 1989, Koert had a number of roles, including General Manager of the Rotterdam business unit with responsibility for the restructuring of the packed logistics of Shell-Pernis. He was, during this time, General Manager for the newly founded Tankcontainer Division of United Bos BV and purchased the first Tankcontainers in its fleet. From 1989 to 1996, Koert was Operations Director of United Transport Tankcontainers. He started with a fleet of 350 Tankcontainers focussed mainly on Europe, which grew into a worldwide business with a fleet of 4,500 Tankcontainers. He was subsequently appointed as Business Development Director for worldwide operations and pricing structure during the time when UTT was owned by BET and Rentokil Initial. Between 1996 and 2000, Koert was Operations and Business Development Director of Initial Tank Containers, with responsibility for all world wide operations and business development. In 2000, he was appointed managing director of UTT’s predecessor, a subsidiary of Rentokil Initial and led the management buy-out of UTT in 2002. Koert was Chairman of the International Tank Container Organisation from April 1999 to December 2005. Koert is responsible for developing and implementing strategy and the overall performance of the Group.
Scott Cunningham, Financial Director
Scott Cunningham was born on 26 March 1971. Scott Cunningham has a Bachelor of Accountancy degree from the University of Glasgow. He obtained admission to the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland in 1995. He joined the Clyde Blowers group in 2001 as Group Corporate Finance Manager. Since then he has been responsible for the review of acquisition targets, overview of consolidated financial reporting, business planning reviews and worldwide treasury and tax matters. Prior to joining Clyde Blowers, he was a senior manager with Arthur Andersen. His role in his first 7 years with Arthur Andersen was in the provision of assurance services to both public and private companies in a wide variety of industries including transport, oil support services, construction and engineering. During this period he performed audit work on financial statements and other reporting documents for companies listed on the London Stock Exchange. During his last 2 years at Arthur Andersen he had moved to focus on transaction support services, where he was involved in the provision of acquisition support for both companies and private equity/institutional investors. Scott is responsible for the Group’s financial and administrative functions.
Hu Song, Executive Director
Mr Hu Song was born in 1967 is a Chinese national and a qualified engineer. He has worked for Sinotrans in a number of roles since 2003, most recently as Deputy General Manager of the Marketing Department where he focuses on marketing and sales in chemical logistics. Mr Hu has over 10 years' managerial experience, a good track record of business development and project management and in-depth experience with the tank container business and international chemical industry. Prior to Sinotrans, Hu Song worked in a sales role for the China National Scientific Instruments and Materials Import/Export Corporation. Hu Song's key focus is providing direction to the strategy and development of the business in China and being a key market facing contact for the Sinotrans InterBulk Alliance.
Non-Executive Directors
David Rolph, Chairman
David Rolph was born on 26 September 1956. David Rolph brings over 30 years international experience in the chemical and plastics industries including executive board positions at Borealis and European Vinyls Corporation (EVC), two of the leading companies in the field. At Borealis he was head of the Polyolefins Business Group and the Supply Chain from 2001 to 2007. Earlier he had been Polymers Division director at EVC with additional responsibility for Health and Safety, Technology and Group Risk Management.
He read Natural Sciences at Cambridge and has an MBA from the Open Business School.
Jim McColl
Jim McColl was born on 22 December 1951. Jim McColl started his career as an engineering apprentice with Weir Pumps Limited in Glasgow. After six years in engineering and six years of part-time study, he left work to take up full-time study for a BSc degree in Technology and Business Studies on a four year course at Strathclyde University. After achieving a BSc degree with Honours in 1978, he returned to Weir Pumps Limited where he remained for three years while studying part-time for a Masters Degree in Business Administration. In 1981 he moved to a senior management position with Diamond Power Speciality Limited, an engineering company supplying equipment to the power industry worldwide. From 1981-1985 he studied part-time for a Masters Degree in International Accounting and Finance. In 1985 Jim was headhunted by Coopers & Lybrand as a senior consultant involved mainly in “corporate care” assignments. This meant working in various companies who were in financial difficulties and in need of turnaround. In 1986 he left Coopers & Lybrand to become a self employed “company doctor” and, after two successful turnarounds, in 1992 he bought 29.9 per cent of Clyde Blowers plc, a small engineering company with a full listing on the London Stock Exchange. Prior to purchasing his stake in Clyde Blowers plc, it had a market capitalisation of £2.2 million. In 1999 Jim led a management buy-out of Clyde Blowers plc to take the company private. Over the past 10 years the Clyde Blowers portfolio has grown significantly and has developed into a portfolio of global engineering companies. During 2001 the Clyde Blowers business was reorganised into discrete independent companies focusing on core markets. These businesses each have their own ownership structure but what is common is that the Clyde Blowers executive team has been the driver of the strategic direction. Jim received the ‘Alumnus of the Year Award’ from Strathclyde University in 1998, the Entrepreneurial Exchange ‘Entrepreneur of the Year Award’ for 1999/2000 and the Ernst & Young ‘Master Entrepreneur of the Year Award’ for 2001. In 2001 Jim was honoured in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List with an OBE. In November 2002 Jim was inducted into The Entrepreneurial Exchange Hall Of Fame. In November 2003 Jim was honoured by the Academic Board and the Court of Napier University with an award of Honorary Doctor of Business Administration. In July 2005 HRH The Duke of Edinburgh awarded Jim McColl with The Prince Philip Medal 2005 ‘Certificate of Achievement’ for an outstanding contribution to the engineering industry.
Graeme Bissett
Graeme Bissett was born on 11 February 1958. Graeme Bissett is a Chartered Accountant, who was a senior partner with Arthur Andersen before becoming Group Director of Finance at Kwik-Fit Holdings plc from 1998-2001. He was a non-executive director of Belhaven Group plc, Scotland's largest brewing and pub group, until it was sold to Greene King plc in 2005 for £190m. He is currently providing consultancy services and non-executive roles to a number of companies including acting as a non-executive director of Macfarlane Group plc, the listed packaging group. Graeme is chairman of the Audit committee.
Eric van der Werff
Eric van der Werff was born on the 8th October 1945 and spent 34 years working for Royal Dutch Shell plc in a variety of roles, but latterly as Global Land Logistics Manager, where he had responsibility for procuring logistic services and managing logistic activities in the areas of transport, storage, warehousing and packaging for all chemical production and business locations globally. He is currently developing his consultancy business advising on logistic services. Eric is chairman of the remuneration committee.
Einar Pall Tamimi
Mr Tamimi was born on 15 January 1969, is a qualified lawyer and a member of the Icelandic Bar Association. He has previously worked as the International Legal consultant at the Icelandic Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as legal officer and subsequently Senior Legal Officer at the European Free Trade Association as General Counsel and Managing Director at Glitnir banki hf, and as an Attorney at Law for Malflutningur og raogjof LLP and currently for Nordic Legal Services LLP. Mr Tamimi is Chairman of Murr LLC and SL1 LLC, General Partner of Malflutningur og raogjof LLP and a director of 123 Holdings LLC, Giggs LLC, Atorka LLC, Teymi LLC, Skyrr LLC, Vodafone LLC and Renewable Energy Resources LLC.
Halldor Bjarkar Ludvigsson
Mr Ludvigsson was born on the 1st of October 1967, is Managing Director in Corporate Finance at Arion Bank and has previously been a senior director at Kaupthing Bank and CEO of Maritech International AS, the IT solutions provider. Mr Ludvigsson is Chairman of Intelscan and Stiki and is a non executive director of the following companies: Atorka, Exista, Nordic Photos, 1998, Álftarós, Ármannsfell, Eignabjarg, Húsfélagid Glæsir, Korp, Langalína 2, Nordurhöfn and Bakkavor. In the past five years, he has also been a director of Men and Mice.
Herve Montjotin
Herve Montjotin was born on the 13th May 1965 is Member of the Executive Board of Norbert Dentressangle and MD Transport Division. Herve is a graduate from the Ecole Normale Supérieure with an ESCP Masters. Herve joined the Nobert Dentressangle Group in 1995 and was Human Resources manager from 1996 to 2001. He has been a member of the Executive Board since 1998. From 2001 to 2005, he was General Manager in charge of Organisation and Human Resources and also MD of the Transport Division since 2005.