Global Ship Lease, Inc. Announces Chief Executive Officer Changes
December 07, 2023 at 04:15 pm EST
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Global Ship Lease, Inc. (GSL) announced that Ian Webber, its Chief Executive Officer, has chosen to retire from the CEO role he has held since the Company?s inception in 2007 and will join GSL?s Board of Directors, effective March 31, 2024, expanding the size of the Board to nine members. Thomas Lister, who also joined the Company in 2007 and has held a number of senior executive roles, has been appointed to succeed Mr. Webber as CEO, effective concurrently with Mr. Webber?s retirement. Thomas Lister was part of the management team that took GSL public in August 2008, and has served as Chief Commercial Officer of the Company since then, having also served as Chief Financial Officer from 2017 ?
2018 in the lead-up to GSL?s transformational combination with Poseidon Containers. Since 2019, Mr. Lister has also led GSL?s decarbonization initiatives. Prior to joining GSL, he worked in asset finance, banking, and liner shipping.
Mr. Lister graduated from Durham University and holds an MBA from INSEAD.
Global Ship Lease, Inc. is a United Kingdom-based containership owner, leasing ships to container shipping companies under industry-standard, fixed-rate time charters. The Company focuses on mid-size Post-Panamax and smaller containerships. As a containership owner, its business is both procyclical with chartered tonnage and counter-cyclical with sale and lease-back structures. The Company owns 68 containerships, ranging from 2,207 to 11,040 TEU, with a combined capacity of 375,406 TEU. 36 ships are wide beam Post-Panamax. The mix of ship sizes within its fleet provides flexibility to deploy its vessels on a range of trading routes. Its portfolio of vessels includes CMA CGM Thalassa, ZIM Norfolk, Anthea Y, ZIM Xiamen, MSC Tianjin, MSC Qingdao, GSL Ningbo, GSL Alexandra, GSL Effie, GSL Lydia, GSL Sofia, GSL Kalliopi, GSL Grania, GSL Eleni, Mary, Kristina, Katherine, Alexandra, Alexis, Olivia I, CMA CGM Berlioz, Agios Dimitrios, and GSL Christel Elisabeth, among others.
GLOBAL SHIP LEASE, INC. 
