Team & Misssion

Built by maritime natives
and AI researchers

Routing is the heart of AI in commercial shipping. Without easy, explainable and defensible sea routes, compliance and autonomy will be impossible. Our mission is to deliver the world's highest accuracy level in predictive routing and become the foundational AI model for commercial shipping.

We've built this from inside the industry, alongside shipowners, charterers and navigational officers; on real commercial data; in strategic partnership with one of the world's leading tanker operators; and with some of the best maritime and maritime-AI talent on either side of the Atlantic. The result is a neurosymbolic, multi-agent system that turns every voyage into structured, auditable intelligence.

As regulation, autonomy and AI converge on shipping, the companies that own the routing layer will define the next decade of global logistics and the next vertical AI category alongside legal, clinical and financial intelligence.

We're building VesselFront to be that company.

Spero Theodorou, MD

Executive Chairman

Part of the executive team that took InMode from startup to multi-billion dollar Nasdaq-listed company. Deep experience scaling hardware/software ecosystems and navigating US public markets.

Capital Markets

Constantine Abazis

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Third-generation maritime native with 20 years in software execution. Knows exactly why captains reject software and how to build what they will actually use.

MaritimeProduct

Nikos Krithariotis

Co-Founder & President

Serial entrepreneur who secures strategic access to major fleet owners and handles high-level business development across the industry.

Business Development

Andreas Kouvaras

VP of Product

Degrees in both Maritime Law and Data Science. Ensures the AI product solves actual maritime regulatory problems — EU ETS, CII — rather than theoretical ones.

RegulatoryProduct

Katerina Karampasi

VP of Engineering

Expert in processing noisy, high-dimensional data. Translates academic output into production-grade, scalable code. Liaison between data science and engineering.

EngineeringML Ops

George Voutyras

Head of Infrastructure

Full-stack engineer across the entire Vesselfront system. Backend, frontend, AWS, and local infrastructure. Builds it, ships it, keeps it running.

EngineeringInfrastructure

Prof. Alexander Artikis

Chief Scientist

One of the world's leading authorities on Complex Event Recognition and one of the most influential AI scientists globally. Ensures the architecture remains 3–5 years ahead of competition.

AI Architecture

Dr. Georgia Kalantzi

Scientific Advisor (Oceanography)

Experienced marine weather modeler with a global reputation. Her team at AlongRoute ensures state-of-the-art AI ocean modelling is embedded in the system.

OceanographyAI

Prof. Michael Fan

Board Member

35 years in Maritime & Naval Defense business and operational leadership. Represents the voice of the vessel pipeline. Ensures operational reality checks at the board level.

Naval DefenseOperations

Michael Olivier Matt

Board Member

Decades of investment experience across family offices and institutional capital. Brings that perspective to Vesselfront's board on fundraising strategy and capital positioning.

Capital Strategy

Nas Dariva

Head of Marketing

Brings consumer brand thinking to a maritime industry that mostly hasn't had any. Building Vesselfront's growth and marketing function from the ground up.

GrowthMarketing

Dimitris Kladis

Full Stack Geospatial Developer

Full stack geospatial developer with extensive experience in maritime systems; brings agentic execution to our system and owns the orchestration layer that sits between our models and the customer.

EngineeringGeospatial