MCTC Strengthens Its Position In European Market
nternational leading catering management and training provider, MCTC has underlined its commitment to the important Greek and northern European markets by strengthening its teams in those regions with the appointment of two new Business Development Directors.
Vasiliki Stamati (Vicky) will head up the business in the Greek market while Sven Schröder, based at MCTC Germany office in Hamburg, will spearhead operations across Germany, Benelux and the Scandinavian markets.
Sven brings over 20 years’ experience in shipping, towage and offshore energy. He said: “MCTC is playing an important role in helping to change the shipping industry’s mindset towards nutrition and healthy eating onboard ship. The company’s commitment to wanting to improve catering for the benefit of seafarers’ health inspired me. It made me want to join Christian Ioannou and his MCTC team because I am absolutely convinced there are a lot of shipping companies who could benefit from their catering, training and consultancy services. I’m very excited to be leading the business from MCTC’s office in Germany.”
Vicky Stamati, Business Development Director
Vicky Stamati was previously Business Development Manager at Prevention at Sea and brings with her a wealth of customer-facing experience to the new role.
She said: “Now more than ever, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the maritime industry understands the vital role seafarers play in our lives. Vessels would be nothing without their crew and it is our duty to care for them. If we want them to live and work safely and effectively, then it is paramount we fuel them with wholesome nutritious food to support them both physically and mentally.
Welcoming news of the appointments, Christian Ioannou, Managing Director at MCTC, said: “Vicky and Sven bring a wealth of expertise to the table. I am delighted to welcome them to the team as the company expands.
“While COVID has brought the industry some challenging times, it has also shone a light on the importance of leading a healthy wholesome lifestyle, something MCTC strongly believes in because health can’t be bought. We need to fuel our bodies with the right nutrients for it to function to its optimum level both physically and mentally. I am pleased to have both Vicky Stamati and Sven Schröder onboard to strengthen and promote our message to the industry.”
MCTC offers a full Catering Management Programme covering the vessel’s entire catering management needs such as ordering supplies, recipe planning, menu management, health and nutrition – all of which reduce vessel running costs. It also provides a Catering Competency Development Programme designed to increase standards in the galley through a safe food handling and nutrition course; onshore upgrading culinary course; trade tests, briefings, on board visits and also crew conferences.
Cybersecurity Specialist Chooses Athens for its Next Step of Expansion in the European Market
Nettitude announced the location of our new office in Athens. This milestone is a major move for our global organisation as we continue to identify strategic locations in which to offer our threat-led services that span Technical Assurance, Consulting and Managed Detection and Response. With specific industry expertise in the Financial, Retail, Maritime and Defence sectors, Nettitude are strategically placed to offer our cybersecurity services and skillset within the Greek market.
As a Maritime nation by trade, Nettitude looks forward to developing strong links with Greek shipping organisation’s. Acting as the cyber arm of Lloyd’s Register, a global technical and business services organisation and a maritime classification society, Nettitude are able to leverage our unique insight created by the combined knowledge of industry-based cyber research and the extensive marine and offshore experience we have as a Group.
Karen Bolton, CEO of Nettitude comments:
“Nettitude is excited to be locating its southern European operations in Athens, Greece. It not only enables us to be closely located to the financial services, maritime and other critical infrastructure industries of the region, but also affords Nettitude the ability to tap into the tremendous technical cybersecurity skillset of this market”.
As part of the expansion, Nettitude are pleased to announce the launch of our new Greek website, offering an enhanced and more tailored user-experience for clients and prospects within Greece.
Iraklis Mathiopoulos, Head of Cyber SEUR and Global Head of Pen Testing comments:
“We are very excited to be able to establish a new home in Southern Europe. This new office will enable us to better serve our clients in this growing and maturing area and support close collaboration with local industries, regulators and governments. We are actively building local delivery capabilities for our wide ranging, technical and business-focused cyber assurance services.
Founded in 2003, Nettitude is an award-winning provider of cybersecurity services, bringing innovative thought leadership to the ever-evolving cybersecurity marketplace. Leveraging our tenacious curiosity, we aim to operate at the forefront of the industry. Through our research and innovation centres, Nettitude provides threat led services that span technical assurance, consulting and managed detection and response offerings.
We are driven by a desire to build and deliver the best cyber security propositions in the industry and stay abreast of the evolving legislative and regulatory cybersecurity landscape. This helps our clients to prioritise their cybersecurity risks, enabling them to focus on the activities that are core to their business.
We aim to empower our clients, imparting knowledge, advice and assistance to help them deploy changes in behaviour, understanding, and where appropriate, culture. This methodology is at the core of our services, helping provide pragmatic cyber security for industries such as Finance & Banking, IT, Technology and Engineering, Maritime, Offshore, Retail, Healthcare, Manufacturing and Critical National Infrastructure”.