Senior Management

Søren C. Thomsen
Senior Vice President / Head of Operations

Mr. Thomsen started his shipping career in 1987 as a shipping trainee at the East Asiatic Company (EAC). After graduation, Mr Thomsen was stationed abroad at the company's offices first in the USA and England. In 1993, he was promoted deputy General Manager of the shipping department of Saudi Industrial Export Company in Riyadh. Mr. Thomsen returned to EAC's bulk division in Copenhagen in 1995, and transferred to the Eitzen Group when they acquired the EAC dry bulk activities in 1997. Also in 1997, Mr. Thomsen was promoted to head the Eitzen Bulk operations department, which also includes the responsibility for IT, fuel procurement and legal commercial issues. His theoretical education has been complimented by a management development programme that includes courses at such institutions as INSEAD. Mr. Thomsen is a Danish citizen and resides in Denmark.

Kai Alsen
Senior Vice President / Head of Period

Mr. Kai Alsen started his career in F. Laeisz Shipping of Hamburg for whom he worked from 1989 through till 1998 and which included periods in both their Hamburg and Rostock offices, the latter being after the take-over of DSR. During this period he also did an internship with Ultrachart Chile and in New York. He re-located to Chile end of 1998, where he continued with third-party broking activities and simultaneously started Ultrabulk's handysize operation. In 2004, he transferred back to Germany in order to open an office for the Group in Hamburg. Today, still responsible for this office, he continues to run the period activities of Ultrabulk, head-up the Hamburg activities for Ultrabulk. He is a German citizen and resides in Germany.