Consultants

Technical

Juan Antonio Moret Gonzalez-Anleo - Technical Director Juan Antonio Moret graduated with a degree in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering from the Polytechnical University in Madrid in 1973. After a short period working for the Spanish Navy, Mr. Moret joined Empresa Nacional Bazan de Construcciones Navales Militares (Bazan) as Head of the Section of Outfitting and Trials in the San Fernando Yard near Cadiz. He was responsible for the outfitting and testing of more than 30 commercial and naval vessels during his tenure.

Mr. Moret was promoted to Head of Department and assigned to the Research & Innovation section at Bazan's head office in Madrid in 1984. He assumed leadership of the Platform Department reporting to the Research & Innovation Director. While there, he was involved in the development of an aircraft carrier, mine hunters and AOR (replenishment at sea) vessels for the Spanish Navy, and high speed patrol boats and oceanographic and research vessels.

Mr. Moret was named Director in 1989, assuming Technical Direction of Bazan's San Fernando Yard, which was designated as the company's reference center for high speed vessels. Between 1989 and 2000, five fast ferries (both monohulls and catamarans), interdiction patrol boats and megayatchs with speeds ranging from 36 to 60 knots were designed and commissioned by the yard under his leadership.

In December 2000, Bazan and Astilleros Españoles S.A. (AESA) were merged to form IZAR (now Navantia) to create the second largest shipyard in Europe and the ninth largest in the world.

In 2001 he was selected to lead IZAR's Innovation Department, which was charged with developing high speed vessels for short sea shipping. In this position he was involved in the design of a European High Speed Cargo Vessel (EHSCV) in partnership with Rolls Royce and a 38 knot 3,500 metric ton deadweight pentamaran Ro-Ro and a 38 knot 1,200 metric ton deadweight pentamaran Ro-Pax ferry in association with Nigel Gee Associates.

From 1994 to his retirement, Mr. Moret was a member of Det Norske Veritas Technical Committee for High Speed and Light Craft. This Committee oversaw the development and evaluation of proposed rules and regulations before they were incorporated into the rules of the classification society. He has published several articles on high speed vessels and presented papers at various professional and commercial conferences. Mr. Moret retired from IZAR in December 2002.

While still at IZAR, Juan Antonio worked with Nigel Gee Associates on development of the SeaBridge high speed pentamaran Ro-Pax. In July 2003, Juan Antonio began consulting for SeaBridge and in July 2005 assumed his current position as Technical Director.

Kevin Michael Lynaugh - Assistant Technical Director. Kevin Lynaugh graduated from the University of California Berkeley in 1984 with a Bachelors Degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. In 1996, he obtained a Joint Masters Degree in Engineering, Project Management, and Operations Management from The Johns Hopkins University in Maryland.

Until October 2002, when he joined ABS, Mr. Lynaugh was Ship Design Manager for the US Navy, leading a collaborative effort between the Navy and Ingalls Shipyard on the development of the LHD8, a new ship design of the current LHD7 class of ships.

Mr. Lynaugh began his career with a small naval architectural firm in San Francisco in 1980. He joined the US Navy as a civilian employee in 1984 and held increasingly responsible and varied positions during his career. Starting with four years as a Naval Architect in the Navy's Hydromechanics Department, followed by two year stints as a Large Cavitation Channel Project Engineer, Technical Contract Monitor for the Navy's Manufacturing Technology Program, Manager of the Navy's Advanced Double Hull Program, Project Manager for the Navy's Engine Room Arrangement Modeling Project, and Ship Design Manager for the Navy's Strategic Sealift Program Design Team, Mr. Lynaugh served for two years as Deputy Assistant Program Manager for the Navy's Strategic Sealift Program Office for maintenance and repair of delivered Sealift ships.

Mr. Lynaugh's position with ABS entails structural engineering review and Survey with respect to ABS Steel Vessel Rules for ABS classification. Mr. Lynaugh also supports a number of US Naval projects for total ship certification not only with respect to ABS Naval Vessel Rules, High Speed Naval Craft Rules, USCG compliance but Marine industry standards.

Captain Chrysanthos Ferentinos - Technical Consultant, Hotel Operations, has held senior positions in operations in the cruise industry; from 1997 onwards as Vice President for Marine Operations of Royal Olympic Cruise Lines. Between 1998 and 2001, he was responsible for developing specifications and supervising construction of the Olympic Voyager and the Olympic Explorer, two high-speed cruise ships.

George Michaelides - Technical Consultant, Vessel Management, has been involved in managing vessels and vessel operations since 1974. He has been responsible for all aspects of ship management, including chartering, insurance, vessel operations and vessel repair, since 1979.

Captain Thanassis Papafitsoros - Technical Consultant, Vessel Operations, has been Operations Manager for a Greek ship management company since 1995. A Master Mariner, he has over twenty years experience at sea, during which time he served as Master of several European Ro-pax vessels.

Public Affairs and Government Relations

Paul Bea - Government Relations Advisor, is specialist in marine transportation systems. In 2006 he formed PHB Public Affairs after serving for 26 years as Washington Representative of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, where he managed that agency's wide ranging transportation agenda.

Paul is experienced in freight transportation policy matters, navigation safety, and freight related homeland security issues. His advisory appointments include USDOT's Marine Transportation System National Advisory Council, the Joint Ocean Commission Initiative Legislative Advisors group, and the Eno Transportation Foundation Board of Advisors. He is chairman of the Coastwise Coalition that advocates for policies to advance the use of domestic waterborne transportation.

Richard M. Biter - Government Relations Advisor, is a former Acting Associate Deputy Secretary and Director in the Office of Intermodalism, U.S. Department of Transportation, and a Senior Federal Service Executive with over 30 years of transportation technology, research, security, program and policy making experience in the private and federal government sectors. He provided leadership to develop Federal intermodal transportation solutions for moving people and goods efficiently and securely while improving productivity growth, strengthening our nation's competitiveness in the global economy, and optimizing the use of transportation resources.