OUR TEAM

Keith D. Abbott

Managing Director
Stamford

Keith D. Abbott

Keith Abbott joined Charles R. Weber in June of 1999 as a broker and currently serves on CRW’s board of Directors since 2006.  Prior to joining Weber, Keith worked as a broker for Poten and Partners in New York City from 1991. Born and raised in the U.S. East Coast, Keith graduated from Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Fla. in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Management with a concentration in Finance.

BIO

kda@crweber.com
+1 (203) 550-1719

Connie Athanasiou

Operations
Stamford

Connie Athanasiou

Connie Athanasiou joined the operations department of Charles R. Weber in 2023. Connie is a veteran Maritime professional with over two decades of experience in Dry / Tanker Vessel Operations.

BIO

cna@crweber.com
+1 (203) 515-5656

Kevin J. Breen

Director
Stamford

Kevin J. Breen

Kevin joined Charles R. Weber in 2001 as a broker. Prior to joining Charles R. Weber, Kevin worked at Islandia Chartering and Maritime Direct. Kevin graduated from SUNY Maritime College in 2000 with an Unlimited Third Mates license.

BIO

kjb@crweber.com
+1 (203) 550-5552

Marisa D’Ambrosio

Administrative Manager
Stamford


mrd@crweber.com
+1 (203) 629-2300

James Dean

Broker
London

James Dean

James joined Charles R. Weber in March 2020, as a broker. Prior to CRW, James worked for several years at Marex and Gibson's, in London. James graduated from the University of Westminster, London.

BIO

jd@crweber.com
+ 971 56 511 3111

Jim Enright

Dir. of Business Operations
Houston

Jim Enright

Jim joined the Charles R. Weber Company in 2015. Prior to joining Weber, Jim was Managing Director of OSG Lightering in Houston between 2007 and 2014. Prior to his lightering endeavors, Jim worked as a Chartering Manager and Crude Oil/Feedstocks Trader for Fina Oil and Chemical in Dallas. Jim holds a BS in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Texas and an MBA from Texas Christian University.

BIO

jre@crweber.com
+1 (832) 731-2416

Diana Esteves

Operations
Stamford

Diana Esteves

Diana Esteves joined the operations department of Charles R. Weber in 2014. Prior to joining Charles Weber, Diana worked as a vessel operator for OSG Ship Management, Inc. and Heidmar Inc. Diana’s first work was as a boarding ship agent for GAC and Rice, Unruh, Reynolds Company in New York Harbor. Diana is a graduate of SUNY Maritime College where she earned a B.S. in Marine Transportation and Business Administration and her Unlimited Third Mates License.

BIO

de1@crweber.com
+1 (646) 334-1439

Harold Jean Felix

Claims/Demurrage
Stamford

Harold Jean Felix

BIO

hjf@crweber.com
+1 (203) 629-2300

Peter Howard-Johnson

Director Emeritus
Stamford

Peter Howard-Johnson

Peter joined the Charles R. Weber Company in 1985 as a broker and has been a director of the company since 2001. He is currently a manager of the ASBA Tanker Broker Panel and is on the Board of Directors of the Worldscale Association. Peter was previously a tanker broker at D and L Services and before that worked at U.S. Lines. He commenced his career in the maritime industry at Mobil Shipping and Transportation. Peter graduated in 1981 from Bucknell University in Pennsylvania.

BIO

phj@crweber.com
+1 (203) 940-3936

Carole Jenkins

Accounting
Stamford


cj1@crweber.com
+1 (203) 629-23001439

Lawrence P. Jordan

Director
Stamford

Lawrence P. Jordan

Larry joined Charles R. Weber Company in 1988 in the operations department. He has been a broker with the company since 1990 and a director in 2001. Before joining Weber, Larry worked for Gibbs and Cox. He graduated in 1986 from the United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point with a BS in Nautical Sciences/Marine Transportation and a Third Mate's license.

BIO


lpj@crweber.com
+1 (203) 550-1695

John M. Kulukundis

Research & Analysis
Stamford

John M. Kulukundis

John Kulukundis joined Charles R. Weber as a research analyst in 2005. Prior to that John worked as a tanker and projects broker for Charles R. Weber and various European and Far East brokerages. He worked on the chartering desk for ship owners London and Overseas Freighters and was at sea for two years.

BIO

research@crweber.com
+1 (203) 550-1720

Robert W. Lynn Esq.

Legal Counsel
Market Analyst
Stamford

Robert W. Lynn

Rob joined Charles R. Weber in 2019 as a market and legal analyst. Prior to joining Weber, Rob was a financial products and derivatives attorney for Clifford Chance Rogers & Wells and McDermott Will & Emery. Previously, Rob worked as credit and collections manager and bunker analyst for Trans-Tec Services. Rob holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Marine Affairs from the University of Rhode Island and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Miami School of Law.

BIO

research@crweber.com
+1 (917) 826-2579

Bruce Maronpot

Broker
Southeast Asia

Bruce Maronpot

Bruce Maronpot joined Charles R Weber in 2021 as an S&P Broker. Prior to joining CR Weber, Bruce worked for Naess Hallman / Alliance Maritime in New York in the 1980’s & 1990’s, and then

Mcquilling Partners in New York and Singapore in the early 2000’s and thereafter SM Shipping Consultants Thailand. Bruce graduated from Yale University.

BIO

bdm@crweber.com
+66 98 708 6466

Mike McGuinn

Broker
Stamford

Mike McGuinn

Mike joined Charles R. Weber in February 2014 as a broker. Prior to joining Charles R. Weber, Mike worked at MJLF & Associates for 6 years as a broker on their larger tanker dpp desk. Prior to that, he worked as a senior analyst in fixed-income commodities trading at both Morgan Stanley and Lehman Brothers in Westchester and New York City. Mike graduated from Fairfield University's Dolan School of Business in 2004 with a BS in Business Marketing.

BIO

mcm@crweber.com
+1 (203) 219-1043

Brandon Messenger

Accounting Officer
Stamford

 

bjm@crweber.com
+1 (203) 629-2300

Daniel O’Donnell Jr.

Director
Stamford

Daniel O'Donnell Jr.

Daniel joined Charles R. Weber in 1994 in the operations department and became a broker in 1997 after a brief training period at EA Gibson in London.  During this time, he helped develop the clean products desk and became a company director in 2008.  He currently continues to focus  on clean petroleum products and specialized trade.  He graduated from Catholic University of America, Washington D.C.  in 1993 with a degree in political science.

BIO

dodjr@crweber.com
+1 (203) 550-1615

Richard E. Perlman

Claims/Demurrage
Specialist
Stamford

Richard E. Perlman

Richard joined Charles Weber in 2014, bringing 26 years of experience in commercial operations/bunker procurement at OSG. Richard was AVP of Commercial Operations of Aframax International, a pool of 45-50 ships. In 2010, he created a centralized fuel desk for OSG, arranging fuel for the Aframax, Suezmax, and product fleets. 90 ships managed by OSG’s office in NY, Houston, and Athens. Richard worked in the Supply and Distribution Department of Caltex where he scheduled entitlements of Indonesian and Arabian crude oil for Chevron, Texaco, and Caltex.

BIO

operations@crweber.com
+1 (203) 629-2300

Alex Schwinn

Operations
Houston

Alex Schwinn

Alex Schwinn started at Charles R. Weber as an intern in March of 2019 during his senior year and officially joined the Houston team in May of 2019, after graduating from Texas A&M University with a B.S. in Maritime Administration.

BIO

operations@crweber.com
+1 (817) 713-2337

Yesim Cil Sukhrani

Post Fixture Claims Specialist
Houston

 

ycs@crweber.com
+1 (713) 357-2500

Haakan S. Svedin

Project Broker
Stamford

Haakan S. Svedin

Haakan Svedin joined Weber in 2016 as a projects broker bringing years of experience from the ship owning, spot chartering, and period business side. Prior to joining Weber, Haakan worked for many prominent publicly traded ship owners such as ICB Shipping, Frontline, OMI Corp., and Teekay. For the past 7 years, Haakan managed the Gemini Tankers Suezmax Pool. Haakan has a degree in finance and accounting from the University of Stockholm.

BIO

hss@crweber.com
+1 (203) 550-1456

Thomas Winn

Broker
Houston

Thomas Winn

Thomas Winn is part of our Houston team, focusing on Crude and DPP. Thomas is a graduate of Texas A&M and comes to us by way of AET where he spent three years. Prior to that, he worked as an agent at Inchcape, covering calls within the greater Houston ports, and also as broker/operator on a chemical desk.

BIO

tgw@crweber.com
+1 (281) 919-6253

Max Yabrough

Operations
Houston

Max Yarbrough

Before joining Charles R. Weber, Max Yarbrough was Director Ship to Ship Transfers at Excelerate Energy, responsible for worldwide STS operations. He developed and led many firsts in the LNG industry, such as the first commercial LNG STS in Trinidad, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Subic Bay, Philippines, Limassol, Cyprus, and Israel. Additionally, developed and pioneered new devices to improve safety and efficiencies with each LNG STS operation. Before Excelerate, he was Commercial Manager at SPT and El Paso Marine subsidiary of El Paso Corporation. He graduated from Texas A&M University, Galveston, Texas, with a B.S. in Marine Transportation and achieved USCG License Unlimited Tonnage. He has sailing experience on container ships and tankers.

BIO

operations@crweber.com
+1 (713) 882-2096

Carol Zerbo

Administration
Stamford

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