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09:00 Registration and Welcome Coffee

10:00 NASDAQ opening (video clip)

by Jim Lawrence, Founder and Chairman, Marine Money

International

10:05 Welcome by Marine Money

Mrs. Mia Jensen, Director Special Events

Mr. Kevin Oates, Director Special Projects

10:15 Keynote Addresses

Mr. John Lumsden, Assistant Secretary General, Head of Maritime Transport.

and Mr. Glenn Murphy, Director, Irish Maritime Development

Office (IMDO)

10:30 Setting the Scene

●   An introduction to shipping and its importance to world trade - Mr. Fred Doll, Managing Director, Doll

Shipping Consultancy

●   The Irish economic miracle - Substantiating the equity

capital available for investment - Mr. Dan McLaughlin,

Chief Economist, Bank of Ireland

●   Shipping Case Study – showing successful investment

returns - Mr. Christopher Thomas, CFO, Paragon

Shipping Inc.

11:30 Coffee Break

12:00 Private equity - Shipping investments - Can shipping

compare with property?

●   Raising private equity for shipping - Mr. Erland Torsen,

Ness, Risan & Partners

●   Can the inexperienced investor feel safe investing in

shipping - Mr. Morten Bredesen, NRP Asset Management

●   The fundamentals and dimensions of property investment - Mrs. Marie Hunt, Director Research and Consultancy,

CB Richard Ellis

●   … and more … 

Moderator: Mr. Kevin Oates, Marine Money Greece

13:00 Lunch

Program and speakers subject to change without notice

●   Eurobond case study - Mr. P. J. Henehan, Partner -

Financial Services Group, Ernst & Young

●   Securitisation case study - Speaker TBA, BNP Paribas

●   Strategies for accessing the capital markets - the

shipping sector - Mr. Nick Davies, Managing Director

Transportation, Oil Service & Infrastructure, Jefferies

International Limited

●   Why is Ireland the centre of excellence for Aircraft

Leasing? - Mr. Pat O’Brien, Partner, KPMG Tax Advisers

Moderator: Mr. Paul Packard, Head of Maritime Industries,

Bank of Ireland Corporate

15:45 Coffee

16:15 The case for shipping and shipping investments in

Ireland. The experts are here.

 ●  Why Ireland is an attractive base for foreign shipping

companies - Mr. Enio Spurio, CFO, d'Amico International SA

 ●  Home grown shipping success - Mr. Pat Corcoran,

Financial Director, Arklow Shipping Limited

 ●  IMDO - Mr. Glenn Murphy, Director, Irish Maritime

Development Office

 ●  Debt Finance and shipping – Mr. Paul Packard, Head of

Maritime Industries, Bank of Ireland Corporate

 ●  Structuring Shipping Operations in Ireland - Mr. Jim

Healy, Director, KPMG Tax Advisers

Moderator: Mrs. Helen Noble, Partner, Mason Hayes+Curran

17:00 Closing address

17:15 Cocktail Closing Reception

Mia Jensen & Kevin Oates, Marine Money Greece