Thanasis Koilakos

Thanasis Koilakos heads the Commercial Department of Coral Shipping Corp.  since April 2020. Prior to joining Coral Shipping Corp., Thanasis has gained more than 12 years’ experience on the banking sector, firstly as ship finance account officer in Piraeus Bank S.A. in Piraeus, Greece which he worked from 2007 to 2012 and then various ship finance positions in DVB BANK SE between 2012 and 2020 such as Relationship Manager for loan origination in Athens, Greece , loan restructuring and recovery in Amsterdam, Netherlands and Head of Credit and Transaction in ITF International Transport Finance Suisse AG, a subsidiary of DVB Bank SE based in Zurich, Switzerland. He commenced his career in 2005 in Reuters Middle East as a Client Training Executive in Abu Dhabi, U.A.E., covering a wide range of asset classes; however, his main focus had been the Commodities and Energy markets. Thanasis holds a BA in Economics from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in New Brunswick, U.S.A. and MSc in Economics from the University of Warwick, Coventry, U.K. Thanasis is also a member of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers since 2022.