Euronav NV Company Culture

Mr. Patrick Rodgers, also known as Paddy, has been the Chief Executive Officer at Euronav NV since 2000. Mr. Rodgers started his career in 1982 as a Trainee Lawyer with Keene Marsland & Co. In 1984 he joined Bentley, Stokes & Lowless as a qualified lawyer. He started work as a barrister at Johnson, Stokes & Master in Hong Kong in 1986. He joined the CMB group in 1989, where from 1990 to 1995 he was employed as an InHouse lawyer and subsequently as Shipping Executive. Since 1998, he served as Chief Financial Officer of Euronav (UK). He has been a Director of Euronav NV since June 2003. He studied at University College London from 1978 to 1981 and at the College of Law, Guildford from 1981 to 1982.

Mr. Egied Verbeeck has been General Counsel at Euronav NV since 2009 and served as its Secretary General. Mr. Verbeeck is responsible for the general corporate affairs of Euronav. He has a broad experience in corporate and securities law, finance and mergers and acquisitions. Egied started working for Euronav in June 2006. He was a Member of the Antwerp bar and managing associate at Linklaters De Bandt. Mr. Verbeeck graduated in law from the Catholic University of Louvain in 1998. He also holds a Master's Degree in international business law from Kyushu University (Japan).

Mr. Hugo De Stoop has been the Chief Financial Officer at Euronav NV since January 1, 2008. Mr. De Stoop served as Deputy Chief Financial Officer of Euronav N.V. He started his career with Mustad International Group, an industrial group with over 30 companies located in five continents where he worked as a project manager on various assignment in the US, Europe and Latin America, in order to integrate recently acquired subsidiaries. He founded First Tuesday in America (the world's largest meeting place for high tech entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and companies), helped developed the network in the US and in Latin America and was appointed member of the board of directors of First Tuesday International. He then joined Davos Financial Corp. London, an external investment Manager for UBS, specialized in Asset Management and Private Equity, where he became an Associate and later a Vice President. He conducted several transactions, including private placement in public equities (PIPE) and investments in real estate. Hugo joined Euronav in September 2004. Mr. De Stoop studied in Oxford, Madrid and Brussels and graduated from ???cole polytechnique (ULB) with a Master of Science in engineering. He also holds an MBA from INSEAD (France and Singapore).

Captain Alex Staring serves as the Chief Operating Officer of Euronav NV and has been its Chief Offshore Officer since 2010. Captain Staring came ashore in 1997 and headed up SGS training and gas centre. In 1998 he rejoined CMB and moved to London to head the operations team at their subsidiary, Euronav UK. In July 2005, Captain Staring was appointed Chief Operating Officer of Euronav a listed Tanker company on Euronext, a position he relinquished in July 2010 to become Chief Offshore Officer. He serves as Director of The West of England Ship Owners Mutual Insurance Association (Luxembourg). He graduated in Maritime sciences from the Maritime Institute in Flushing, The Netherlands and started his career at sea in 1985.