Now based in the UK after more than a decade in Singapore, John is a Chartered Shipbroker with over 38 years’ experience in the maritime sector. With a lineage of mariners and maritime connections, his childhood was spent interacting with tankers. Initially working in port agency and tanker operations with a UK tanker owner, he later managed ship agency offices and operations for Graypen, Haven Marine Services and Furness Marine Services in South Wales, Athens, and Kanoo in Saudi Arabia. His skill sets beyond this included on/off hire surveys, ship vetting surveys, ship S&P, dry bulk and liner trades and part-time lecturing.

After postgraduate studies at the University of Plymouth, John specialised in marine and bunker credit management. From 2002 he began managing teams for MRC/Lloyd’s List Intelligence and later Ocean Intelligence (OI)  and also headed global bunker credit teams at Chemoil, Soyuz Bunkering and more recently GP Global.

John became a director of his own business, Awyr Las Pte Ltd (ALP) in Singapore in 2011. By 2016 the business had become dormant due to his other work commitments. He redeveloped the Credit Model he had used at Chemoil and then, during his time with ALP, concepted and oversaw the development of a new model that later became part of the OI suite of products. Later at GP Global, and following the withdrawal of OI from the credit reporting market, he re-concepted and oversaw the building of a new model that would later become GP CAM. During this time, he also wrote Bunker Credit Policies for these and other businesses, and introduced a number of key bunker market players to the excess of loss credit insurance concept.

Revisiting Awyr Las became the natural way forward when he left GP Global and Singapore, and its UK namesake was incorporated in late 2020. His efforts with the MantraWork team on rebuilding a credit model for universal usage has delivered the ALL/MW CAM.