Ardmore Shipping ASC

James Fok has been a director of Ardmore since January 2023. Mr. Fok is the Chief Commercial Officer of CMU OmniClear Limited and has more than 25 years of experience in financial services. From 2012 until 2021 he served as a senior executive at Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, a Hong Kong-listed operator of exchanges and clearing houses. Previously, Mr. Fok was an investment banker with multiple bulge bracket firms in both Europe and Asia. He has served on a wide range of public and private sector boards and committees, and currently serves as Vice Chairman of the International Securities Services Association. Mr. Fok holds a BA (Hons) in Law and Chinese from the School of Oriental & African Studies of the University of London and is a Distinguished Nonresident Fellow of Hong Kong's Centre on Contemporary China and the World.

John Russell was appointed Chief Financial Officer of Ardmore on July 1, 2025. He has been with Ardmore since 2018, previously serving as Director of Finance. From 2011 to 2018 Mr. Russell held various roles at Flex Ltd., a Nasdaq-listed manufacturing and supply chain company, with postings in both Ireland and the U.S., across accounting, finance, and operations. Prior to this, he worked as an analyst at ESB International, a utilities company, and at Deloitte. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from University College Cork and a Master of Science in Financial Services from the University of Limerick, is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Ireland, and completed the Chief Financial Officer Programme at London Business School.

Robert Gaina was appointed Chief Operating Officer at Ardmore effective January 1, 2026. Since joining Ardmore in Cork, Ireland in 2015, Mr. Gaina has held several positions with Ardmore, including as Senior Vice President, Commercial, where he oversaw the company's chartering activities and commercial operations, leading the Commercial Operations department, where he played a key role in optimizing fleet performance and commercial strategy, and serving as Cargo Operation Manager. Prior to transitioning ashore, Mr. Gaina had a distinguished seafaring career. A graduate of the Maritime Academy Mircea cel Batran (Class of 2002), he spent over a decade sailing on chemical and oil tankers, including five years as Master Mariner. Mr. Gaina earned a Global Executive MBA from Rotterdam School of Management in 2024.

Bart Kelleher has served as President and a Director of Ardmore since 2024. He joined Ardmore in 2022 as Chief Financial Officer and served in such position until June, 2025. He has nearly 30 years of progressive experience in the maritime, finance, energy, and industrials sectors. From 2016 to 2022, Mr. Kelleher held executive roles with Chembulk Tankers, an owner and operator of stainless-steel chemical tankers, serving as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Strategy Officer. From 2010 to 2015, he was the Chief Operating Officer of Principal Maritime Management, which owned and operated a fleet of Suezmax crude carriers and chemical tankers, where he also functioned as acting Chief Financial Officer during the company's start-up and initial growth phases. In addition to his executive experience in the maritime energy transportation sector, Mr. Kelleher has held roles in investment banking, commercial banking, equity research, and capital markets in the maritime and energy-related industries at Bear Stearns and HSH Nordbank. Earlier in his career, he served as a deck officer onboard US-flag crude oil tankers and held management positions in both the cruise industry and with a leading naval architecture firm. Mr. Kelleher holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, an MS in Ocean Systems Management from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a BE in Naval Architecture from New York Maritime College. Mr. Kelleher serves as a Director of Element 1 Corp, a developer of methanol to hydrogen technology, and as an advisory board member to OrbitMI, an innovative technology firm offering advanced AI-based fleet performance management solutions.

Gernot Ruppelt has served as Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Ardmore since September 2024. Prior to his appointment as Chief Executive Officer, he served as Chief Commercial Officer at Ardmore. In that role Mr. Ruppelt developed and led Ardmore's global trading platform and commercial strategy since joining Ardmore in 2013. Mr. Ruppelt has 25 years of experience across multiple sectors in the maritime industry and acquired extensive international exposure having worked in five countries across three continents throughout his career. Before joining Ardmore, Mr. Ruppelt was a Tanker Projects Broker with Poten & Partners in New York. Previously, he held various roles up to Trade Manager for AP Moller - Maersk and Maersk Broker in the United States, Europe and Asia. Mr. Ruppelt holds an Executive MBA from INSEAD and later completed their International Directors Program. He also graduated from the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers in London, Maersk International Shipping Education (MISE) and was accredited as a Shipping Merchant by the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Ruppelt previously served on the board of Anglo Ardmore Ship Management, and he was Chair of INTERTANKO's Commercial Markets Committee from 2018 until 2024.

Aideen O'Driscoll was appointed in 2023 as Ardmore's Senior Vice President and Senior Director of Corporate Services, with responsibility for human resources, office management, and project management. Ms. O'Driscoll joined Ardmore in June 2015 as Legal Associate, before being appointed to the role of Director of Human Resources in 2019. Prior to Ardmore, Ms. O'Driscoll spent five years practicing as a commercial conveyancing and banking solicitor. Ms. O'Driscoll holds a Bachelor of Civil Law and an LLM Master's Degree in Law, both from University College Cork. Ms. O'Driscoll was admitted to the Roll of Solicitors in 2013 and has completed an Executive MBA with Cork University Business School. Ms. O'Driscoll is a member of the steering committee of the Diversity Study Group.

Kirsi Tikka has served as a director since September 2019. Dr. Tikka serves as a director on the board of Pacific Basin Shipping Limited and is a Foreign Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. Dr. Tikka chaired the U.S. National Academies Committee on Oil in the Sea IV: Input, Date and Effects, and was a member of the U.S. National Academies Committee on U.S. Coast Guard Oversight of Recognized Organizations, reports published in 2022. She is a Fellow of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers and the Royal Institution of Naval Architects and formerly a Trustee of Webb Institute. Dr. Tikka has over 30 years of shipping experience having retired from the American Bureau of Shipping Classification Society (ABS) in July 2019 as Executive Vice President, Senior Maritime Advisor. Prior to her time at ABS, Dr. Tikka was a professor of Naval Architecture at the Webb Institute in New York and worked for Chevron Shipping in San Francisco and Wartsila Shipyards in Finland. Dr. Tikka holds a Doctorate in Naval Architecture and Offshore Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture from the University of Technology in Helsinki.

Curtis McWilliams was appointed as a director of Ardmore in January 2016 and as Ardmore's Chair effective January 1, 2019. Mr. McWilliams has over 40 years of experience in finance and real estate. From December 2021 until May 2022, Mr. McWilliams served as Interim CEO of Kalera, Inc. He retired from his position as President and Chief Executive Officer of CNL Real Estate Advisors, Inc. in 2010 after serving in the role since 2007. Mr. McWilliams was also the President and Chief Executive Officer of Trustreet Properties Inc. from 1997 to 2007, and a director of the company from 2005 to 2007. He has also served on the boards of directors of CNL Bank from 1999 to 2004, Campus Crest Communities from 2015 to 2016, Braemar Hotels and Resorts from 2013 to 2022 and Modiv Industrial from 2019 to 2024. Mr. McWilliams has over 13 years of investment banking experience at Merrill Lynch & Co. where he served as co-head of the firm's Transportation Group among other roles. Mr. McWilliams has a Master's degree in Business with a concentration in Finance from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University.

Mats Berglund has been a director of Ardmore since September 2018. Mr. Berglund has more than 35 years of shipping experience in Europe, the USA and Asia. Among other roles, he served as the Chief Executive Officer of Pacific Basin Limited, a Hong Kong-listed owner and operator of drybulk vessels controlling a fleet of over 200 ships, from 2012 to 2021, as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of marine fuel trader Chemoil Energy, and as Head of Crude Transportation for Overseas Shipholding Group. Mr. Berglund serves on the boards of directors of Pacific Basin Limited and Algoma Central Corporation. Mr. Berglund also previously served in a variety of leadership roles across the Stena group of companies, culminating as President of Stena Rederi, Stena's parent company for all shipping activities. Mr. Berglund holds an Economist (Civilekonom) degree from the Gothenburg University Business School (1986) and is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Harvard.

Helen Tveitan de Jong has served as a director of Ardmore since September 2018. She is Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Carisbrooke Shipping Holdings Ltd., a specialist owner operator of mini-bulk and project cargo ships controlling a fleet of 23 ships. Previously, Ms. Tveitan de Jong held a variety of senior ship finance roles, including as a founding partner at shipping finance advisory firm THG Capital from 2001 to 2007, and has held several positions as interim Finance Director for shipping companies, most notably in the dry bulk sector, from 2003 to 2017. Ms. Tveitan de Jong graduated with a DRS in Economics from Rotterdam's Erasmus University in 1992. Ms. Tveiten de Jong serves as a non-executive director of Anthony Veder N.V. From 2021 to 2024, Ms. Tveitan de Jong served as an independent non-executive director of Taylor Maritime Investments Limited, an internally managed investment company listed on the premium segment of the London Stock Exchange.