OUR SENIOR LEADERSHIP

Chris Jin, based in Beijing, joined Seaco in October 2012. He started his Seaco career as Chief Financial Officer and promoted as Deputy CEO in April 2016. In July 2017, Mr Jin was nominated as chairman of the board. Mr. Jin currently also serves as a Director of Hainan HNA No.2 Trust Management Service Co., Ltd., the Chairman of HNA Capital Group Co., Ltd., the Chairman of Bohai Leasing Co,. Ltd and the Chairman of the Board of various Bohai entities.

Prior to joining Seaco, Mr Jin was the President and Chairman of Hong Kong International Aviation Leasing for 2 years. Before that, Mr Jin worked for East West Bank in Los Angeles for 8 years, and Bank of China (at its Beijing Headquarters and New York Branch) for 14 years. Mr Jin holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Fudan University, Shanghai and an MBA in Finance from Fordham University of New York.

Jeremy has held the role of Chief Executive Officer for Seaco since December 2012. He is based in Dubai.

Jeremy qualified as a Canadian Chartered Accountant in 1991. He worked at Price Waterhouse (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) in Vancouver, London and Amsterdam in both the Audit and Corporate Finance Departments. He left PwC in 1997 as a Senior Manager and joined AT&T Unisource in Amsterdam as its European Controller. In 1999, he moved to Mackie Designs as its European CFO. Jeremy joined GE in 2003 as the European Controller and became the Director of Financial Planning and Analysis of the Equipment Services Division. He was then the CFO of the European Modular Space and Plant Hire businesses of GE prior to becoming the CFO of Seaco.

Jeremy holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree (1st class honors) from the University of British Columbia. He enjoys listening to music, golf, wine and travel.

Rohit is the Chief Financial Officer and he is based in Dubai.  He is responsible for maintaining relationships with banks, capital market investors, shareholders etc.

Rohit joined Seaco in September 2008 as FP&A Manager in London, relocated to Singapore in late 2009 and promoted to the role of Deputy CFO in September 2015 until April 2016.  During this period, Rohit was responsible for company performance, corporate finance, budgeting & expense control, cash management and financial risk management.

Prior to joining Seaco, Rohit worked for Genstar – GE’s container leasing arm. Prior to that Rohit worked with a US based IT sourcing company. He qualified as an Indian Chartered Accountant in 1999 and has 15 years of financial and leasing industry experience.

Rohit enjoys listening to music, going to the cinema and cooking for his son.

Eng Eng rejoined Seaco as Senior VP Products in June 2021. Eng Eng was appointed as Seaco’s Vice President, Sales – Asia in January 2013, after serving as the General Manager for China. Based in Shanghai, prior to joining Seaco she ran her own Chinese domestic leasing and trading company for three years. Eng Eng has a strong history within the industry, working with DVB Group Merchant Bank as the Senior Vice President of the Container Box Group and Vice President, Business Development for TTL Equipment Management. She spent 10 years working for Transamerica Leasing as a Global Sales Director between 1996 and 2006. This role included postings in Shanghai, New York and San Francisco. Eng Eng’s first Industry appointment came in 1992 when she became the Area Manager for China for Genstar Container Corporation for four years. Eng Eng holds a B.Sc. from the National University of Singapore.

Dominic joined Seaco as General Counsel in August 2006 and was named as Vice President in 2007. Based in the Company’s London office he has responsibility for all legal affairs. Prior to joining Seaco, Dominic had worked in the Sea Containers legal department where he dealt with general commercial and joint venture matters. His involvement was as a secondee from the London office of Reed Smith where he was a Senior Associate specializing in maritime litigation and arbitration. Dominic was called to the Bar in 1993 with a Blackstone scholarship from Middle Temple. He practiced as a barrister from London Chambers until 1997, when he joined Holman, Fenwick and William as a Solicitor Advocate.

Dominic graduated from Oxford Brookes University with a degree in Law and Politics.  His interests include opera, wine, self-sufficiency and country sports, and when not in London or travelling he can be found in the Sussex countryside listening to Mozart, sipping a Burgundy and playing strategy games with his children.

Meryl joined Seaco as the Human Resources Director in February 2023. She started her HR journey in recruitment (in financial services), with a strong commitment to gain an in-depth understanding of the culture of the company to identify the best candidate that would be a culture addition to the company. A key skill was managing stakeholders whether internally or externally.

Meryl then moved on to become an HR generalist, working across multiple industries including financial services, engineering, professional services and tech start-ups, developing a strong balance between transactional and strategic HR. This was a combination of both permanent roles as well as consulting, eventually developing her skills in transformation and leadership. Meryl has led projects across diversity, change, target operating models, implementing HRIS’s and has also been an active member of executive and senior leadership teams. Meryl is an HR agile practitioner, and is a strong proponent in using data to track and measure change and identify opportunities.

Meryl received both her undergraduate and postgraduate social science degrees in organizational from the University of Cape Town. Her interests outside of work include cooking, travelling, pottery, attending theatre and music concerts and is an avid reader of both fiction and non-fiction books

Mikkel Swane, based in Hamburg, Germany, was promoted to Senior Vice President, Global Marketing in July 2022. Mr. Swane joined Seaco in 2015 as Regional Marketing Director, North Europe when Cronos Containers was acquired by Seaco. He was promoted to Regional Vice President, Marketing for EMEIA in 2018. Mr. Swane finished his studies in shipping in Copenhagen in 1991 after which he spent some years with Evergreen and P&O Containers in Hamburg in internal sales roles as well as with an international NVOCC. In 1996 Mr. Swane joined Triton Container where he held several positions in sales and marketing and spent 7 years from 1998 to 2005 in their London Office. He returned to Hamburg to take responsibility for their regional office and his last position was Marketing Director with area responsibilities ranging from Europe, India/Middle East to South America. In 2008 Mr. Swane joined Capital Intermodal in Hamburg as Senior Vice President, Global Marketing and in 2012 he joined Cronos Containers as a Marketing Director. He has more than 25 years’ experience in the container leasing industry.

Prior to Joining Seaco as CIO, Damian held the position of Chief Technology Officer for Workday Asia Pacific and Japan. Prior to his CTO position at Workday Damian spent 13 years in the Banking and Finance industry in Global Technology roles, most recently working for Standard Chartered Bank based in Singapore. Damian led the Digital Transformation program for the Bank to move to the cloud and pioneered Voice Biometric technologies for the retail Banking customers. Prior to coming to Asia, Damian spent many years managing professional services teams to develop core banking interactive technology systems in Europe. Damian is a certified AI professional having studied AI Bias and Governance at NTU and also completed an EMBA in Business Administration focused on Asian Leadership and Entrepreneurship with overseas segments in Wharton Penn university and UC Berkley HaaS. In his spare time Damian coaches, mentors, and is a panelist on startups / innovation contest across Asia.

Mark is based in the Singapore office and in his role as the VP Operations, has responsibility for global operations.

Mark started with GE Capital Genstar in 1990 as Technical Coordinator, and rose through to Director of Operations, Asia Pacific in 1997. When GE SeaCo was formed in 1998, he was transferred to the new joint venture, continuing his responsibility as General Manager, Operations. In 2008, he was promoted to Global Director of Operations, and to his current position in 2012. Integrity is the corner stone in everything he does, as well as for his team.

A social golfer, he enjoys cycling at the weekends, and a good book always ends the day well for him.

After graduating with a Banking & Finance degree from University of Monash, Australia, Angela started her career in 1995 as a Credit Analyst in one of the largest banks in Singapore, DBS Bank. Having spent 9 years in the banking industry, Angela moved on to semiconductors industry and worked for Flextronics, a NASDAQ-listed company for 5 years.

Angela’s career history in credit risk management spans over 20 years.  Based in Singapore, she joined Seaco Asia in Jan 2010.