Knowledge base
Brilliant Minds for a Bold Mission
​ShipEco’s world-class specialists, veterans of global energy and maritime projects, have delivered in the harshest offshore environments. We unite project development, finance, naval architecture, advanced systems engineering, HSE, logistics and commercial delivery to turn bold ideas into reality. This depth of knowledge and experience lets us de-risk, optimise cost, and execute safely at scale, and at speed. We’ve built critical offshore marine infrastructure before...
but this time we're transforming the future of Power, and the transportation of it!
THE POWER BEHIND THE DREAM
The founders are taking EnviroShips from concept to reality, with specialists and programme leaders united to build the world’s first floating, mobile, grid-scale clean power system of the future.
AT THE HELM OF CHANGE
PIONEERING EXECUTIVE TEAM
EXECUTING THE VISION: SCALABLE, DISCIPLINED, CLEAN-ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE
MARTYN DEANER
Chairman Emeritus
Martyn Deaner is former North Sea saturation diver, and a pioneer of the evolution of diver safety and modern floating production systems. Martyn founded and led companies that engineered 11x sophisticated diving systems, and 9x state of the art Diving Support Vessels. He developed the world’s first Hyperbaric Lifeboat, earning the prestigious Queen’s Award to Industry for diver safety. His commercial leadership extended into capital markets, where his work achieved exceptional recognition, winning the AIM “Share Price of the Year” award two years running, for outstanding performance. Martyn takes the position of 'Chairman Emeritus', bringing a remarkable legacy of engineering and self-financing of over $1 billion of advanced offshore hardware for the North Sea O&G industry. As a guiding force behind ShipEco’s ethos, he supports the EnviroShips team with deep strategic insight, helping navigate complexities, avoid industry pitfalls, and upholding the highest standards in safety. At 600-ft under the surface of the sea, safety he says "is the ONLY constant!"
MARTYN DEANER
Chairman Emeritus
KEIR AUSTEN-BROWN
Project Financial Lead
Keir Austen-Brown serves as Project Financial Lead (PFL) for ShipEco, bringing over 25 years’ experience in global financial markets and corporate finance. A British-Kenyan finance professional, Keir spent 22 years in senior roles at Merrill Lynch and Bank of America Securities in New York, working across capital markets, leveraged finance, risk management, and large-scale transaction execution.
He holds a BSc and an MBA in International Finance from the University of London, plus a postgraduate certificate in Digital Transformation from MIT. Keir combines analytical rigour, institutional discipline, and international perspective while supporting ShipEco’s financial strategy, commercial structuring, and investor engagement. His leadership enables scalable financial architecture, disciplined capital deployment, and long-term value creation as EnviroShips moves into infrastructure-scale execution. Keir strengthens ShipEco’s ability to operate with the financial precision expected of major energy and infrastructure platforms, reinforcing credibility with global capital markets, partners, and lenders.
KEIR AUSTEN-BROWN
Project Financial Lead
ANDREW DEANER
Managing Director
Andrew Deaner is the Managing Director of ShipEco and the originator of the EnviroShips system. With over 30 years’ experience in large-scale marine energy developments, he combines practical engineering intuition with strategic, system-level thinking focused on how nations generate, move, and store power. Andrew’s work centres on converting stranded renewable energy into transportable electro-cargo, enabling mobile grid infrastructure and new models for long-duration energy storage and transport. His approach, grounded in empirical design, commercial structuring, and integrated system architecture, has produced multiple pioneering maritime “clean utility” concepts, culminating in the full EnviroShips programme.
As the driving force behind the project’s strategic direction, innovation pipeline, and global partnerships, Andrew articulates and aligns the core thesis: that infrastructure scale energy transport is essential to unlock curtailed renewables and strengthen national power systems. His deep understanding of market failures, system economics, and grid-bottleneck dynamics underpins the technical and commercial rationale for fleets of EnviroShips.
ANDREW DEANER
Managing Director
CHRIS HARRIS
Project Business Lead
Chris Harris serves as ShipEco’s Project Business Lead (PBL), bringing decades of high-level commercial leadership and a proven track record in securing major infrastructure agreements for the Port of Southampton. Formerly Head of Commercial, Business Development and Property at ABP Southampton, Chris played a pivotal role in reshaping the port’s commercial landscape through long-term contracts with global operators in shipping, logistics, and cruise, driving transformational growth, particularly in the automotive import sector. His experience spans complex negotiations, stakeholder partnerships, strategic land use, and infrastructure commercialisation, giving him a deep understanding of how ports, operators, and capital providers align around large-scale assets. At ShipEco, Chris leads commercial strategy, partner engagement, and business development, supporting the mobilisation of equity partners, strategic customers, and operational alliances required to deploy EnviroShips’ mobile grid-reinforcement systems.
CHRIS HARRIS
Project Business Lead
Peter Klopfer
Senior Advisor
Mr. Peter M. Klopfer is the Senior Advisor to the Managing Director and Chairman Emeritus, bringing over 50 years of international shipping and ship-finance experience. He began his shipping career with a major international ship owning group operating some 80 vessels. Following his transition to shipbrokering and finance he rose to Joint Managing Partner of LQM Associates, President of the U.S. Banking arm and securities dealership division of Finanshuset A/S and Senior Vice President with American Marine Advisors (AMA). Peter has arranged fleet acquisitions for major U.S. industrial groups, built and sold a mortgage-banking company, and acted as an expert witness in U.S. and U.K. courts. Mr. Klopfer co-founded First Ship Lease Trust, a ship owning/ship finance company owning some 27 vessels, which IPO’d on the Singapore Stock Exchange for $482 million, the largest such transaction in the history of the Singapore Stock Exchange at that time. He is currently President of P.M. Klopfer Shipbrokers Inc. in New York, supporting ShipEco’s capital-raising strategy working closely with TrueNorth Chartering. He brings his ship owning and finance experience to ShipEco where he will be working closely with the pioneering executive team.
PETER KLOPFER
Senior Advisor
TERRY KIMBER
Project Compliance Lead
Terry Kimber serves as Project Compliance Lead (PCL) for ShipEco, bringing one of the deepest safety and regulatory track records in the North Sea. A Chartered Engineer with 35 years of senior operational leadership, Terry led the UK Department of Energy’s Piper Alpha investigation team in Aberdeen, producing the Initial Investigation Report and supporting Lord Cullen’s landmark inquiry, work that helped redefine offshore safety standards and has undoubtedly saved hundreds of lives over the past four decades.
He has held major roles at British Gas, LASMO and Monument, delivering international projects with world-class HSE performance and rigorous compliance culture. Terry now provides ShipEco and the EnviroShips programme with regulatory insight, safety leadership, and disciplined operational guidance, ensuring that engineering decisions are aligned with best practice and industry expectations.
TERRY KIMBER
Project Compliance Lead
Providing strategic direction, programme leadership, and cross-disciplinary execution across maritime engineering, energy systems, commercial strategy, and capital development. The team drives the delivery of the EnviroShips programme from concept to large-scale deployment, coordinating technical design, stakeholder engagement, investment readiness, and operational rollout.
DAVID GARDNER
Project Technical Lead
David Gardner serves as ShipEco’s Project Technical Lead (PTL), bringing 45 years of global experience in rotating plant, thermodynamics, EPC contracting, and independent power project development. A Fellow of major engineering institutions in the UK and Australia, he has acted as principal technical advisor on large-scale thermal and combined-cycle developments across Africa, the Middle East, Australia, Europe, and the United States. David’s career includes senior leadership roles at Mott MacDonald and extensive hands-on work in turbine design, plant optimisation, costing, O&M strategy, and long-run generation economics. His work is defined by rigorous engineering discipline, precise thermodynamic analysis, and a deep understanding of how large-scale assets perform over full lifecycle horizons.
David provides ShipEco and the EnviroShips programme with technical assurance, engineering leadership, and practical insight into high-integrity power-generation systems.
DAVID GARDNER
Project Technical Lead
JOHN SULLIVAN
Ship Acquisitions Lead
John M. Sullivan, ShipEco’s Ship Acquisitions Lead (SAL),
is a veteran S&P broker with over 40 years’ experience and more than 500 completed vessel transactions across tankers, LNG carriers and dry cargo tonnage. A former senior broker at V-Ships, Kellock, Terry Bell International and Howard Houlder, he is also a Baltic Exchange expert witness, lecturer and Visiting Professor at Shanghai Maritime University. John leads ShipEco’s global LNG-carrier acquisition strategy, negotiating with major owners including ADNOC and opening pathways to Moss-Rosenberg vessels and operating partners such as Bernhard Schulte. His expertise ensures ShipEco acquires the right ships at the right time.
JOHN SULLIVAN
Ship Acquisitions Lead
PETER NORDQUIST
Process Design Lead
Peter Nordquist is a senior process design engineer with 34 years of experience delivering Pre-FEED, FEED, and EPC scopes for major gas, LNG, NGL and refinery projects worldwide. A specialist in Aspen HYSYS and PRO/II, he has led process engineering for Saudi Aramco, Shell, Chevron, Dow, KBR, Wood and Foster Wheeler, with expertise spanning liquefaction, gas separation, cryogenic systems, compression trains, turbo-expander driven cycles, and complex energy-integration schemes. Peter’s career combines deep thermodynamic analysis with practical design execution, giving him a unique ability to translate conceptual cycle models into operable, safety-compliant industrial plant. His work has supported some of the world’s most demanding process environments, where reliability, system balance, and energy efficiency are mission-critical.
As ShipEco’s Process Design Lead (PDL), Peter leads process development across the EnviroShips programme.
PETER NORDQUIST
Process Design Lead
COMMANDING THE FUTURE OF ENERGY
ENVIROSHIPS FOUNDING CONTRIBUTORS
LEADING THE MISSION, AND MOBILISING THE ORGANISATION TOWARDS DELIVERY
The EnviroShips Founding Contributors provide strategic insight, technical depth, and specialist guidance to support the development of the EnviroShips programme. This advisory tier draws on world-class expertise across maritime engineering, grid economics, process design, safety leadership, finance, and large-scale energy project development.
Their role is to inform strategy, validate assumptions, strengthen technical decision-making, and help shape credible pathways for commercialisation and deployment. While they do not hold governance or delivery responsibility, their experience enhances programme robustness, regulatory alignment, and industry engagement, ensuring the EnviroShips vision is developed with rigour, realism, and sector-led insight.
PETER FERGUSON
Project Management Lead
Peter Ferguson, ShipEco’s Project Management Lead (PML), is a veteran project management specialist with over 40 years’ experience delivering major oil, gas and refinery developments worldwide. He has led Pre-FEED, FEED, EPC definition, contractor selection, QHSSE systems, risk management, HAZOPs, construction oversight, mechanical completion and commissioning for companies including Addax, Shell, Takreer, Parsons, Fluor and Lloyds Register. A recognised authority in technical assurance and project delivery governance, Peter provides ShipEco and the EnviroShips project with world-class expertise in planning, executing and controlling large-scale energy-infrastructure programmes. His leadership ensures the EnviroShips system is delivered safely, efficiently and to the highest standards of technical integrity.
PETER FERGUSON
Project Management Lead
DAVID NORMANDALE
System Machinery Lead
David Normandale is a senior rotating-machinery specialist with over 50 years’ experience in turbomachinery, diesel and gas-turbine power systems, and large industrial energy equipment. His career includes senior roles at Siemens, Alstom, Hawker Siddeley, Stewart & Stevenson and Mirrlees Blackstone, delivering major machinery-driven projects across global onshore and offshore markets. A leader in standardised machinery design, value engineering, OEM interface management and lifecycle performance, he has overseen multi-million-pound machinery programmes and long-term service agreements. As ShipEco’s System Machinery Lead (SML), David ensures all rotating equipment; compressors, turbo-expanders, TXGs and auxiliary systems are engineered, integrated and optimised to the highest operational and safety standards.
DAVID NORMANDALE
Systems Machinery Lead
BRIAN SHEWAN
Clean Power Lead
Brian Shewan serves as ShipEco’s Clean Power Lead (CPL), bringing over 40 years of UK utility and power-engineering experience. His career spans Scottish Hydro Electric, SSE plc and specialist consultancy work through Shewan Associates, contributing to grid-modernisation, smart-grid programmes, and renewable-integration initiatives. At ShipEco, Brian leads the Green Power Division, overseeing grid interface design, renewable-system alignment, and engagement with TSOs, DSOs, regulators and wind-generation stakeholders. His deep knowledge of network planning, curtailment, and flexibility markets ensures EnviroShips systems integrate seamlessly into the UK grid and deliver maximum carbon and curtailment-reduction benefit. He provides the strategic engineering authority behind ShipEco’s green-power strategy.
BRIAN SHEWAN
Clean Power Lead
MARTIN HALLAM
Legal Adviser
Martin Hallam brings more than twenty-eight years of top-tier legal expertise to ShipEco and EnviroShips Project, serving as our Chief Legal Adviser and architect of the specialist legal team that will support our marine, energy-infrastructure and project-finance works-streams.
Martin is exceptional at cutting to the core of complex matters and structuring large-scale transactions through partnerships and SPVs, skills central to EnviroShips’ multi-jurisdictional vessel acquisitions, port developments, energy-transfer infrastructure and long-duration storage contracts.
His career spans senior roles at DLA Piper and major UK institutions, leading high-profile acquisitions, disposals, regeneration schemes, power-station transactions, contaminated-land matters and utility-sector developments. Martin’s breadth, discipline and cross-sector insight provide ShipEco with the robust legal foundation required for a project of this scale.
MARTIN HALLAM
Legal Adviser
CHRISTIAN DENNING
International Tax Adviser
Chris Denning serves as ShipEco’s International Tax Adviser (ITA) as a Non-Executive, bringing over 37 years of global tax expertise across PwC, KPMG, HMT and MHA. He specialises in cross-border structuring, M&A, CFC/PE analysis, transfer pricing, and profit repatriation for capital-intensive multinational businesses. Chris advises ShipEco on international frameworks including BEPS, Pillar 2, and ESG-aligned tax policy, while optimising benefits from tonnage tax, green-asset capital allowances, R&D incentives, and energy-transition reliefs. His insight ensures ShipEco’s fleet investment, ownership structures, and global operations remain tax-efficient, compliant and commercially aligned as the EnviroShips system scales worldwide.
CHRIS DENNING
International Tax Adviser
PETER TARLTON
Intellectual Property Adviser
Peter Tarlton serves as ShipEco’s Principal Adviser for Intellectual Property and Innovation protection, leading the corporate mandate to protect all Trade Secrets, Patents, proprietary processes and commercial know-how developed across the EnviroShips programme. With decades of experience safeguarding high-value inventions, Peter ensures that the company’s most sensitive technological and commercial assets remain rigorously protected and strategically deployed. Since joining ShipEco in 2018, Peter has been instrumental in shaping our innovation discipline, applying his “reduced-to-practice” methodology; rooted in Occam’s Razor, is to streamline concepts, eliminate unnecessary complexity, and strengthen investor-grade scalability. As ShipEco’s main custodian of IP and trade-secret strategy, his leadership provides the critical IP backbone that safeguards the company’s competitive advantage and
long-standing proprietary knowledge.
PETER TARLTON
Intellectual Property Adviser
Dr. Florent Trarieux
R&D Adviser
Florent is one of Europe’s leading experimental hydrodynamicists and the architect of ShipEco’s physical model testing and experimental validation programmes. A former Cranfield University lecturer and founder of the Ocean Systems Test Laboratory, he has delivered over 15 years of tank testing, wave/tidal prototype development and R&D leadership for offshore renewables, including ORECon, PLAT-O and DeltaStream. His background spans vortex-induced vibration research with BP, advancedfluid-structure modelling, wave-to-wire conversion and scaled test rig design. Florent will lead EnviroShips’ physical testing campaign, tank modelling and R&D roadmap, ensuring the system is validated through real-world engineering rather than theoretical assumptions.
Dr. FLORENT TRARIEUX
R&D Adviser
DAVID SHORTER
Simulation Software
David Shorter is an industrial computing pioneer. A mathematician by training, he has spent 60 years developing automation, enterprise integration international standards and real-time simulation systems for organisations including British Steel, Micro Automation Computing Systems, Systems Designers / SD-Scicon, and managing research programmes for the the UK Alvey Programme and the European Commission. Since 2015, he has provided modelling expertise and most recently developed ShipEco’s CETS simulation engine, a digital twin capable of modelling an entire year of EnviroShips operations in seconds, evaluating MW flows and equipment operation, tankage, berthing, financial outcomes and fleet configuration. His work underpins the engineering and commercial feasibility of the entire EnviroShips system. He provides the analytical rigour required for investment-grade decisions and de-risks design assumptions before capital is committed.
DAVID SHORTER
Simulation Software
FIDELIS AZOGU
Project Managing Adviser
Fidelis is ShipEco’s senior project delivery lead, responsible for driving major infrastructure programmes from concept through to commissioning. A certified PMP with over 20 years’ experience, he has overseen more than 50 offshore and onshore oil & gas projects and supported owners on developments ranging from $600m to $1.2bn. His expertise spans governance frameworks, execution strategy, and full project lifecycle control—budgeting, procurement, risk, regulatory compliance, and earned value performance. Fidelis has delivered complex brownfield upgrades, 100+ km of flowlines, 40+ km of subsea pipelines, and large marine assets with zero HSE violations. Working in tandem with Peter Ferguson (PMO), he ensures EnviroShips is engineered, contracted, and executed to world-class delivery standards.
FIDELIS AZOGU
Project Managing Adviser
DAVID ALMOND
Data Centre Adviser
David Almond brings over 40 years of development, infrastructure and commercial leadership, with a specialist focus on data centre deployment, site acquisition and strategic connectivity. As a founder, shareholder and director across multiple property and technology ventures; including Marlborough Developments Limited and MarlboroughTech Ltd. David has built strong relationships with hyper-scalers colocation operators and edge data centre developers across the UK, Europe and Asia. David provides the EnviroShips Project with critical insight into power procurement, land strategy and grid-constrained data centre development, ensuring the project aligns with real-world hyperscale demand, capacity planning, sustainability goals and corporate PPAs. He is our direct interface into and with the data-centre ecosystem.
DAVID ALMOND
Data Centre Adviser
JIM MEECHAN
Project Treasury Counsel
Jim Meechan brings decades of banking and structured finance experience, including a long career with Bank of Scotland and over a decade as a banking and financial consultant to Pitmans (now BDB Pitmans). As Project Treasury Director, he oversees capital structure, banking relationships and treasury governance for each EnviroShips system, ensuring that investor funds and project cashflows are managed with institutional discipline. Jim works closely with the Project Financial Lead and International Tax Adviser to align funding, tax, and regulatory considerations across multiple jurisdictions. A lifelong football man and committed Celt, he now applies his financial expertise to ShipEco’s global clean-energy portfolio.
JIM MEECHAN
Project Treasury Counsel
DAVID BLACKMAN
Global Affairs & Strategy
David Blackman has a wealth of systems-based business experience across domestic and international businesses and multiple business sectors. His particular talents lie in developing existing systems, trouble shooting systemic problems, and implementing new systems. He holds an honours degree in business & finance, graduating top male on his course and winning a university prize for his final exams. ​​In his role as lead on Global Affairs Strategy, David acts as the key liaison between ShipEco’s leadership and external advisory partners. He works closely with international firms such as KPMG and collaborates directly with the International Tax Officer to refine the corporate structure, optimise global planning, and ensure regulatory and financial resilience. David’s remit includes multinational governance, strategic alignment, and ensuring the EnviroShips programme is built for scalable international deployment.
DAVID BLACKMAN
Global Affairs & Strategy
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