Team - EEC

Capt. Uday Yellapurkar

Uday served as Founder and Chair of Womar Logistics (2009-2019) and represented a 50% stake, the only other board member being Andreas Sohmen-Pao (Chairman BW). Both subsequently sold their entire interests to a private equity. Uday enjoys excellent relationships with them and with all others of his past ventures in the industry.
Uday's earlier career activities include founding and running a container line (sold to Maersk), ship ownership, as well as leading several JV companies.

Robin Das has worked in shipping finance and investment banking since 1995.
He is currently a non-executive director of Pyxis Tankers Inc, a NASDAQ listed shipping company.
In 2013 Robin founded Auld Partners, a boutique shipping and finance focused advisory firm.
Previously he held senior executive positions in Navigos Capital Management, HSH Nordbank, WestLB and J.P. Morgan.
Robin holds a BSc (Honours) degree from the University of Strathclyde.

Vladimir started his career with Tankerska Plovidba
Vladimir's earlier career activities include a Shipbuilding Department Director role for Iceberg/Douglas Industrial Technologies where he worked on a number of shipbuilding projects
Before EEC, Vladimir was at Womar (Project and Business development)
Vladimir has two masters, in Naval Architecture and Maritime Economics & Logistics

Soumitro has over 42 years of experience in shipping with major global companies both afloat and ashore (including Mobil, Reliance)
Developed, implemented and assisted in ISO 9001/14001/OHSAS 18001 certification for a major ship breaking company in Alang, Gujrat
He has served in senior management positions with oil majors and worked as Superintendent, Head of Operations / HSE / Fleet Personnel Divisions
He is also a former Port Captain of one of the world's largest tanker terminals and VLCC Pilot
Capt. Soumitro is a master mariner

At EEC, Satyajit looks after the trading aspects. The unit led by him recycled EEC's proof-of-concept project “Wan Hai 165” in Bahrain
Prior to joining EEC, he led an AI Tech startup in India with a major focus in the banking and maritime sector
Later, he started a maritime offshore repairs company in Abu Dhabi serving offshore support vessels
Satyajit holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and economics from The Pennsylvania State University, USA

Siddhartha (aka Sid) joined EEC looking after Operations, Logistics and Business Development. He was an integral part of EEC’s proof-of-concept project “Wan Hai 165” in Bahrain
Prior to EEC, he has ten years of operations experience in the maritime supply chain especially in the Middle East offshore sector
Siddhartha holds a Bachelors Degree in Business and an MBA from SP Jain University Dubai