StealthGas INC

Harry N. Vafias - President, CEO and member of the Board of Directors. Mr. Vafias has been actively involved in the tanker and gas shipping industry since 1999. After graduating from City University Business School in the City of London in 1999 with a B.A. in Management Science and from Metropolitan University in 2000 with a Masters degree in Shipping, Trade and Transport, he commenced working at Seascope, a leading ship brokering firm specializing in sale and purchase of vessels and chartering of oil tankers. Mr. Vafias also worked at Braemar, a leading ship brokering firm, where he gained extensive experience in tanker and dry cargo chartering. Seascope and Braemar merged in 2001 to form Braemar Seascope Group plc, a public company quoted on the London Stock Exchange and one of the world's largest ship brokering and shipping service groups. From 2000 until 2004, he worked at Brave Maritime and Stealth Maritime, companies providing comprehensive ship management services, where Mr. Vafias headed the operations and chartering departments of Stealth Maritime and served as manager for the sale and purchase departments of both Brave Maritime and Stealth Maritime.

Andrew J. Simmons - Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Simmons has over 32 years of experience in the banking industry, with particular expertise in shipping finance. From 2002 until June 2005, Mr. Simmons served as General Manager of Heath Lambert Middle East in Bahrain and subsequently as Director at Heath Lambert (UAE) LLC in the Marine and Project Finance Division where he was responsible for overseeing the identification and development of marine finance for clients within the Dubai and Gulf regions. Mr. Simmons served as the Managing Director of Talal Al Zawawi Enterprises, a conglomerate encompassing trading, business services and retail business units in Oman, from 2000 until 2002, where he was responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operational activities of the company. From 1973 until 2000, Mr. Simmons served as Director, Manager and Vice President at a number of banks including BHF Bank and Guiness Mahon & Co. Ltd., both in the United Kingdom, Taib Bank EC in Bahrain and Mid-Med Bank PLC in Dubai and also served in the International Treasury department of Saatchi & Saatchi PLC.


Michael G. Jolliffe - Chairman of the Board. Mr Jolliffe is a director of a number of companies in shipping, oil, textiles, telecommunications and other industries. He is Deputy Chairman of Tsakos Energy Navigation, an oil and product tanker shipping company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Mr. Jolliffe is also Vice-Chairman of both Klonatex S.A. and Naoussa Spinning Mills S.A., two companies quoted on the Athens Stock Exchange that together form the third largest integrated textiles company in Europe. Mr. Jolliffe is a Director of Lannet S.A., Greece's second largest telephone company quoted on the Athens Stock Exchange. Mr. Jolliffe is also Chairman of Wigham-Richardson Shipbrokers Ltd, one of the oldest established shipbroking companies in the City of London, and of Shipping Spares Repairs and Supplies Ltd, an Agency Company based in Piraeus, Greece. He is also joint president of Hanjin Euorbulk Ltd., a joint venture broking company with Hanjin Shipping of Korea. Additionally, Mr. Jolliffe is the President of Eurotrans Hermes Hellas S.A., the Greek agent of the Skoda Group for Trams, Buses and Trains.

Markos Drakos - Chairman of the Audit Committee and member of the Board of Directors. Mr Drakos is a graduate in Economics from the London School of Economics and a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales as well as a member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Cyprus. He was a founding partner of Touche Ross & Co in 1988 (renamed Deloitte & Touche) and remained a partner of Deloitte & Touche until December 2002. From 01/01/2003 to today he is the owner and Managing Director of Markos Drakos Consultants Group.
Markos Drakos Consultants mainly specialize in the offering of International Fiscal Administration and Accounting Services to International Business companies with particular focus to the shipping industry. Clients include a number of multinational Groups, substantial Private Groups etc.
Mr Drakos was the Vice Chairman of the Cyprus Telecommunication Authority from 2000 to 2003. He also acts as a Director to a number of major International and local companies, both private and public.

Lambros Babilis - Member of the Board. Mr. Babilis has been working in the shipping industry since 1990.
He is the Technical Manager of Stealth Maritime Corporation since 2006, working for the group since 2000. Before that he worked in the Technical Department of Multi Trading, a Chemical Tankers company. He also worked as a consultant in the design of PMIS of Piraeus Port Authority in co-operation with Price Waterhouse, as well as a researcher in various EEC Shipping projects, a consultant to shipping companies and as a representative of the Technical Chamber of Greece to various Committees.
Mr. Babilis has worked in the Operations of Trade and Transport Inc. and as a researcher for the research center of Athens University of Economics and Business and in the NTUA (Ocean Transportation Economics). He is a co-author of "Positioning and Diversification in shipping" (Research Center of AUEB1997) together with professor E. Mageirou of AUEB and Professor H. Psaraftis of NTUA.
Mr. Babilis has served as General Secretary of the Hellenic Association of Naval Architects. He is a graduate of the National Technical University of Athens department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.