Who we are

Emanuele A. Lauro, the Company’s founder, has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since the closing of our initial public offering in April 2010. He also co-founded and served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Eneti Inc., which was formed in 2013 and merged with Cadeler (NYSE: CDLR) in December 2023.  Since January 2024, Mr. Lauro has served as Vice-Chairman of the Cadeler Board of Directors. He also served as Director of the Standard Club from May 2013 to January 2019. Mr. Lauro joined Scorpio in 2003 and has continued to serve there in a senior management position since 2004. Under his leadership, Scorpio has grown from an owner of 3 vessels in 2003 to become a leading operator and manager of more than 250 vessels in 2021.

For the last several years, Mr. Lauro has founded and developed all of the Scorpio Pools in addition to several other ventures such as Scorpio Logistics, which owns and operates specialized assets engaged in the trans-shipment of dry cargo commodities and invests in coastal transportation and port infrastructure developments in Asia and Africa since 2007. Mr. Lauro is the President of the Monaco Chamber of Shipping. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of Fordham University. Mr. Lauro has a degree in international business from the European Business School, London.

Robert Bugbee has served as a Director and President since the closing of our initial public offering in April 2010. He has more than 36 years of experience in the shipping industry. Mr. Bugbee also co-founded and served as President and Director of Eneti Inc. from 2013 to 2022. He also served as President and director of Hermitage Offshore Services Ltd. between 2018 and 2021. He joined Scorpio in March 2009 and has continued to serve there in a senior management position. Prior to joining Scorpio, Mr. Bugbee was a partner at Ospraie Management LLP between 2007 and 2008, a company that advises and invests in commodities and basic industries. From 1995 to 2007, he was employed at OMI Corporation, or OMI, an NYSE-listed tanker company that was sold in 2007. While at OMI, Mr. Bugbee served as President from January 2002 until the sale of the company, and before that served as Executive Vice President since January 2001, Chief Operating Officer since March 2000, and Senior Vice President from August 1995 to June 1998. Mr. Bugbee joined OMI in February 1995. Prior to this, he was employed by Gotaas-Larsen Shipping Corporation since 1984. During this time, Mr. Bugbee took a two-year sabbatical beginning in 1987 for the M.I.B. Program at the Norwegian School for Economics and Business Administration in Bergen. He has a B.A. (Honors) from London University.

Cameron Mackey has served as the Company’s Chief Operating Officer since the closing of our initial public offering in April 2010 and as a Director since May 2013. He joined Scorpio in March 2009, where he continues to serve in a senior management position. Mr. Mackey also served as Chief Operating Officer of Eneti Inc. from 2013 to 2022. Prior to joining Scorpio, Mr. Mackey was an equity and commodity analyst at Ospraie Management LLC from 2007 to 2008. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President of OMI Marine Services LLC from 2004 to 2007, where he was also in Business Development from 2002 to 2004. Mr. Mackey has been employed in the shipping industry since 1994 and, earlier in his career, was employed in unlicensed and licensed positions in the merchant navy, primarily on tankers in the international fleet of Mobil Oil Corporation, where he held the qualification of Master Mariner. He has an M.B.A. from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a B.S. from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy and a B.A. from Princeton University.

Ms. Kumar has over 40 years of experience in entrepreneurship and industry across a number of sectors including logistics, financial services, insurance and shipping. From 2014 until 2021, Ms. Kumar served as Joint Managing Director of United Shippers Limited, one of the largest barge fleet owners and operators in India that offered marine logistics for bulk cargo in India and Sri Lanka. She is a director of Parekh Integrated Services Pvt. Ltd, one of India’s largest healthcare logistics providers with a pan-India footprint. She began her career in financial services and is a director of a corporate entity that has a seat on the National Stock Exchange of India and the Bombay Stock Exchange. Ms. Kumar is also the founder of an insurance brokerage company licensed by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India. She has an MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson University, New Jersey, USA.

Marianne Økland has served on the Company’s Board of Directors since April 2013. She is also an independent director on the Professional Welsh Rugby Board responsible for the Welsh national teams and the four professional regional teams. Between January 2019 and June 2021, Ms. Økland served as a non-executive director and Chair of the Audit Committee at Hermitage Offshore Services Ltd. Between 2010 and 2019, she held various non-executive director positions at IDFC Limited, IDFC Alternatives (India), Islandsbanki (Iceland), the National Bank of Greece and NLB (Slovenia). She was also a member of the Audit Committee of the National Bank of Greece, and the Chair of the Audit Committee of each of IDFC Limited and NLB (Slovenia). In addition, Ms. Økland served as Managing Director of Avista Partners, a London based consultancy company that provides advisory services and raises capital, from 2009 to 2018. Between 1993 and 2008, she held various investment banking positions at JP Morgan Chase & Co. and UBS where she focused on debt capital raising and structuring. Ms. Økland has led many transactions for large Nordic banks and insurance companies, and worked on some of the most significant mergers and acquisitions in these sectors. Between 1988 and 1993, she headed European operations of Marsoft, a Boston, Oslo and London based consulting firm that advises banks and large shipping, oil and raw material companies on shipping strategies and investments. Ms. Økland holds a M.Sc. degree in Finance and Economics from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration where she also worked as a researcher and taught mathematics and statistics.

Merrick Rayner has served on our Board of Directors since September 2017. Mr. Rayner has 42 years of experience in the tanker business. From 1974 to 2003, Mr. Rayner was a broker at H. Clarkson & Company Limited shipbrokers, with experience in both the deep-sea tanker chartering business as well as new and second hand vessel sale and purchase. From 1987 to 1989, Mr. Rayner served as Director of Clarkson Sale and Purchase Division. From 1989 until leaving H. Clarkson & Company Limited in 2003, he was a director of the company, and also served as a director of Clarkson Research Studies from 1992 until 2003. In 2003, Mr. Rayner joined E.A. Gibson’s shipbrokers as a broker, where he developed the company’s time charter and projects group. He also served as a director of Gibson’s from 2012 until his retirement in 2016. Mr. Rayner currently resides in the United Kingdom.

Berit Ledel Henriksen was elected a Class II director in May 2024. Ms. Henriksen brings extensive experience from her career within banking and finance. She serves as a director of Ferd Holding AS, a Norwegian investment company that manages a broad portfolio of privately owned and Nordic listed companies. Furthermore, Ms. Henriksen also serves on the board of directors of four other privately held companies in Norway. She is Chair of the Nomination Committee of Norsk Hydro ASA and member of the Nomination Committee of Equinor ASA, two Norwegian listed companies. From 1985 to 2017, Ms. Henriksen held a range of management positions at DNB, Norway’s largest financial services group, where she focused on shipping, energy, and other international industries. She was Head of DNB Americas in New York between 1998 and 2004. Ms. Henriksen most recently served as DNB’s Executive Vice President and Global Head of Energy (Power & Renewables and Oil & Gas), where she oversaw a large portfolio in various loans and investments. Her oversight spanned the entire investment life cycle including, but not limited to, deal origination, credit risk analysis, corporate customer performance monitoring and overall portfolio exposure management. She served as an independent director of Eneti Inc. from 2019 to 2023, and was a member of the Eneti Inc. Audit Committee in 2023 until its merger with Cadeler A/S in December 2023. Ms. Henriksen also previously held various other bank related board positions. Prior to her banking career Ms. Henriksen worked in shipping for a product tanker company where she held various positions within chartering and investments. Ms. Henriksen has an MBA from the Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario, and a BSc from the Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada.

Niccolo Camerana has served on our Board of Directors since September 2023.  In addition to his role as director, Niccolo has been employed by Stellantis (formerly Fiat Chrysler Automobiles) since 2010 and serves as Principal in Stellantis Ventures (the Corporate Venture Capital fund of Stellantis). From 2003 to 2006, Niccolò worked for PwC in Italy in its transaction services and audit department. Thereafter, between 2006 and 2009, he worked for UBS Investment Bank in London in its mergers and acquisitions department. During his career within Fiat Group Niccolò covered different roles and between 2016 and 2019 he was Head of Debt Capital Markets and Head of Business Development at FCA Bank, and in 2019 he became responsible for FCA EMEA Business development, up until its merger with the Peugeot Group. Between 2016 and 2023 Niccolò was a member and invitee of the Exor N.V. Board of Directors.