Biographies

Mr. Bruce Blake - Chairperson

After graduating from the University of South Florida, Mr. Blake worked for Price Waterhouse in Grand Cayman, New York and Toronto for four years, before then going on to join the law firm of Maples and Calder as a Financial Controller. During his time in the Finance Department, he attended the Cayman Islands Law School. After being admitted as an attorney, he joined the Finance Group in the Maples and Calder Grand Cayman office for seven months before being transferred to the Maples office in London for a two-year tour of duty. Mr. Blake returned from the London office in April 2010, and re-joined the Finance Group.

He is also the General Secretary of the Cayman Islands Football Association.

Mr. Bruce Putterill - Deputy Chairperson

Mr. Putterill is a Cayman Islands lawyer who has been in practise for over 25 years. He was formerly Senior Partner and then Chairman of Appleby, a global leader in the supply of international offshore legal, fiduciary and administration services, before retiring as a Partner in 2009. He continues a relationship with the firm as Senior Counsel in the Cayman office. For 2004-9, he was the Cayman head of Appleby’s Corporate & Commercial Practice Group and the global leader of the firm’s Banking & Asset Finance Team and Funds & Investment Services Team.

Mr. Putterill is a leading shipping lawyer in the Cayman Islands and played a major role in the adoption by the Cayman Islands in the 1980s of the international maritime safety conventions and, subsequently, the establishment of the Cayman Islands Shipping Registry, now a division of the Maritime Authority of the Cayman Islands (MACI). He has been an active member since inception of the Maritime Sector Consultative Committee, promoting and assisting the Cayman Shipping Registry in its ongoing development.

Prior to moving to the Cayman Islands, Mr. Putterill practised as a solicitor in London with Norton Rose, specialising in ship finance. He was born and educated in Zimbabwe and has a law degree from the University of Zimbabwe.

Mr. Lemuel Hurlston, CVO, MBE, JP – Director

Mr. Hurlston retired in 1995, after 26 years of public service, as Chief Secretary (and Deputy Governor), one of the highest posts in the Civil Service.

In 1997, upon the retirement of Sir Vassel Johnson, CBE, JP., Mr. Hurlston was named Managing Director of Montpelier Properties (Cayman) Limited, and holds a number of directorships within this group.

He was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1983, and has twice been honoured by Her Majesty the Queen, first in 1989 with the award of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE), and again in 1994 with the Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO).

Mr. Hurlston is a Director of Sagicor Life of the Cayman Islands Limited, and a former Director of the Cayman Islands National Insurance Company (CINICO), as well as the first Chairman of the National Roads Authority. In 2007, he was appointed as a Commissioner to the Civil Service Appeals Commission and, in 2009, he was appointed Chairman of the Immigration Work Permit Board.

Mr. Hurlston is a past President of the Kiwanis Club of Grand Cayman, a past Chairman of the National Council of Voluntary Organizations, and President of the Justices of the Peace Association. He is also a founding member of the Civil Service Credit Union and served as its Treasurer twice, and President, three times. He has also served as the Cayman Islands representative for the British Executive Service Overseas (BESO).

He was educated at Wandsworth College, London.

Mr. Robb Maass – Director

Mr. Maass is a shareholder in Alley, Maass, Rogers & Lindsay, P.A., a full-service law firm with offices in Palm Beach and Stuart, Florida. He holds an A.B. from Princeton University and a J.D. from Yale University. Mr. Maass heads the firm’s Admiralty Department, which specialises in marine transactions.

Mr. Mass and the other lawyers in his department represent a broad spectrum of the marine industry, including yacht owners, crew members, manufacturers, dealers, brokers, and vendors.

Mr. Dennis Hunter – Director

Mr. Hunter has been the Managing Director of Queensgate Trust Company Ltd., and Queensgate Bank Ltd. (formerly Queensgate Bank & Trust Company Ltd.) in the Cayman Islands since 1993 and a Director thereof since 1990. He has over 30 years experience in international banking and the administration of mutual funds. From 1978-93, he was the Financial Controller and Treasurer of Aall Trust & Banking Corporation Limited, Grand Cayman.

Mr. Hunter graduated with a Higher National Diploma in Business Studies and postgraduate Diploma in Management Studies from Newcastle and Brighton Polytechnics, respectively. He is a director of a range of investment funds, commercial property holding companies in Cayman, and other entities both onshore and offshore. He has also been a member of the Maritime Sector Consultative Committee since its inception.

Mr. James C. Parsons, Jr. - Director

Mr. Parsons qualified as a Certified Public Accountant in 1991 following his college education at Barry University in Miami, Florida. He presently holds the position of Deputy Port Director, and has been charged with the responsibility of the Accounting, Financial and Freedom of Information Reporting for the Port Authority of the Cayman Islands since 1 March, 2005.

Prior to joining the Authority, Mr. Parsons worked as a Senior Auditor for three and a half years with Ernst & Young, as a Fund Administrator/Accountant for three years with Deutsche Bank (Cayman) Ltd., and for eight years as Deputy Managing Director/Chief Financial Officer with Andy’s Rent-A-Car Limited. Prior to attending university in the mid-1980s, Mr. Parsons held various junior and senior level positions with Barclays Bank, PLC, Lloyds Bank and Trust, and the Swiss Bank Corporation.

Mr. Parsons has previously served as an active member on two government boards in the 1990s, namely, the Housing Development Corporation Board, and the Immigration Board.

He is also a past member and Treasurer of the Rotary Club Central, and a past member of the Kiwanis Club of Grand Cayman. His experience also includes being a founding member of the Overseas Student Association.

Nicolas (“Nicky”) A. Pappadakis – Director

Mr. Pappadakis, on graduating from College, joined the family firm of A.G. Pappadakis & Co. Ltd. in London as management trainee, progressing through multiple assignments, and eventually to the head of chartering and operations of the family firm and fleet (112.000 TDW O/B/O vessels, 30-60.000 TDW tankers, 40-77.000 bulk carriers, 23.000 TDW multipurpose/heavy lift vessels – 16.500 cargo Liners and twin deckers at various periods).

Prior to this, Mr. Pappadakis had served periods at sea as an apprentice on tankers/dry cargo/bulk carrier vessels. Eventually he became in charge of the family maritime and aviation interests.

Mr. Pappadakis is President of the U.S. Propeller Club International, Port of Piraeus, and Vice President of The Hellenic Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Chairman of INTERCARGO, and of the Malta International Shipping Council (Shipowners’ Association under the Malta flag), as well as Chairman of the Greek Committee of RINA.

He is also a Member of the Board of Directors of the Union of Greek Ship-Owners; Hellenic Committee of Lloyds Register; Hellenic Germanischer Lloyd; Hellenic American Bureau of Shipping; Hellenic Det Norske Veritas; Mediterranean Committee China Classification Society; The London Steam-Ship Owners’ P&I Club Committee; and HELMEPA & INTERMEPA (Hellenic Maritime Environment Protection Association).

Mr. Pappadakis has an ongoing deep concern and commitment for the sea, seafarers and the environment.

Mr. A. Joel Walton, JP - MACI Chief Executive Officer & Ex-Officio Member

Glenda Dilbert-Davis – MACI Board Secretary & Ex-Officio Member

Ms. Dilbert-Davis joined the Maritime Authority of the Cayman Islands on 1 January, 2008, as Head of Human Resources & Administration. Ms. Dilbert-Davis has responsibility for all HR and Administrative functions and activities of MACI, including performance management, employee relations, training and development, recognition and reward.

Ms. Dilbert-Davis possesses over 20 years of governmental experience, having initially joined the public sector in Cayman Brac in 1983, and after a short stint in the private sector in Grand Cayman, and study leave abroad in the UK, she re-joined the public sector in 1989, where she has remained to date.

During this time, Ms. Dilbert-Davis has worked in various Government agencies including, the George Town Hospital (now the Health Service Authority), Financial Secretary’s Office, Portfolio of Finance & Economics, Public Services Pensions Board, Ministry of Education, Employment, Youth, Sports & Culture, and Department of Education Services. Whilst working in the Portfolio of Finance & Economics, Ms. Dilbert-Davis was involved in shipping-related matters and acted at times as Secretary to both the Shipping Sector Consultative and the Shipowners’ Advisory Committees.

Ms. Dilbert-Davis holds a First-Class Certificate in Personnel Practice from Chichester University, UK, and a Masters in Human Resources Management from the University of Portsmouth, UK.