FSLTM is advised by an investment advisory committee comprising four external investment experts who provide perspectives on the maritime industry as well as ship financing knowledge.
The members of the Investment Advisory Committee are:
Mr Heinrich Leopold Felix Schoeller is the Chairman of Schoeller Holdings Limited, a Cyprus-based investment holding company which he founded in 1978. Schoeller Holdings Limited engages in a wide range of businesses including ship owning, ship management (Columbia Shipmanagement Ltd.), liner services (Bengal Tiger Line Ltd., Austral Asia Line B.V. and New Pacific Shipping) and hotel services (Columbia Hotels & Resorts).
Mr Schoeller was a Superintendent in C.F. Ahrenkiel GmbH (1970 - 1972), Managing Director of Hanseatic Shipmanagement Ltd (1972 - 1976) and Technical Director of C.F. Ahrenkiel GmbH (1977 - 1981).
Mr Schoeller was awarded the Cyprus Maritime Award in 2005 by the Government of Cyprus for his contributions to the Cyprus shipping industry.
Mr Peter Michael Klopfer founded P.M. Klopfer Shipbrokers, Inc. in 1991 and co-founded First Ship Lease Ltd. alongside HSH Nordbank, Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank and Schoeller Holdings in 2002. He was a line manager in Hellenic Lines Limited (1965 - 1973), joint managing partner of LQM Associates, Inc (1979 - 1981), partner in Jacq. Pierot Jr. & Sons, Inc. (1981 - 1989) and chairman and chief executive officer of Finanshuset (USA) Inc (1989 - 1991).
He is currently President of P.M. Klopfer Shipbrokers, Inc. which provides ship brokerage, maritime consulting and financial and securities analysis services to the shipping and financial communities. Mr Klopfer worked his way through evening school, having attended Queens College of the City University of New York and Pace College.
Mr. Ingmar Loges is currently Managing Director of the Unicredit Bank AG and
is responsible for ship finance within the Group.
Prior to this he was in charge of HypoVereinsbank’s international ship finance business.
Prior to joining HypoVereinsbank in 1997, he worked in the International Ship Finance
Departments of Deutsche Bank and HSH Nordbank – former Hamburgische Landesbank.
Mr. Loges graduated from the University of Hamburg with a degree in Economics in 1992.
Mr Ulf Gänger was a member of the board of managing directors of Hamburgische Landesbank-Girozentrale, the predecessor of HSH Nordbank prior to his retirement in 2003 and was responsible for matters relating to shipping companies, transport, commodity trade and corporate finance. During his employment with the bank, he developed its Asian network and founded, among others, the Singapore branch office of the bank. Under his direction, the ship financing portfolio of the bank became number one worldwide. After his retirement in 2003, Mr Gänger remains active as a business consultant to several international shipping companies. Mr Gänger graduated from the University of Hamburg with a diploma in economics in 1965.
