Team

Built by maritime natives
and AI researchers

A tested and harmonized team of top scientific and ethical caliber.

CA

Constantine Abazis

Chief Executive Officer

Third-generation maritime native, 20 years in software. Built VesselFront because he watched captains reject every routing tool that didn't understand their world.

"If a captain doesn't trust the route, none of the AI matters."
Maritime Product Leadership
ST

Spero Theodorou, MD

Executive Chairman

InMode — startup to multi-billion Nasdaq listing

Capital Markets
NK

Nikos Krithariotis

Co-Founder & President

Serial entrepreneur with access to major fleet owners

Business Dev
KK

Katerina Karampasi

Senior AI/ML Engineer

Expert in noisy, high-dimensional data

AI/MLEngineering
AA

Prof. Alexander Artikis

Chief Scientific Advisor

World authority on Complex Event Recognition

AI Architecture
AK

Andreas Kouvaras

Lead AI/ML Engineer

Maritime Law and Data Science

AI/MLProduct
GK

Dr. Georgia Kalantzi

Weather Advisor

Oceanographer. State-of-the-art AI wave modelling

OceanographyAI
MF

Prof. Michael Fan

Scientific Advisor

Applied mathematics and optimization research

Research
MM

Michael Olivier Matt

Strategic Capital Advisor

30 years at Credit Suisse, UBS, PENSADOR

Institutional Finance
GV

George Voutyras

Head of Development

Cloud infrastructure and backend systems

EngineeringAWS
DS

Dimitris Stavropoulos

AI/ML Engineer

Machine learning and data pipelines

AI/ML
DK

Dimitris Kladis

Senior Fullstack Developer

Full-stack development and GIS systems

FullstackGIS
IP

Ioanna Papapetrou

Operations

Project coordination and team operations

Operations
ND

Nas Dariva

Business Development

Market expansion and partnerships

Business Dev
Advisory & Research

Published research and technical foundations

Neurosymbolic Route Optimization

Combining physics-based constraints with neural forecasting

VesselFront Research, 2024
Architecture ML
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CII Compliance at Scale

A data-driven framework for fleet emissions management

VesselFront · Bureau Veritas, 2023
CII Compliance
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Multi-Agent Voyage Optimization

Game-theoretic coordination in commercial shipping

VesselFront Research, 2024
Multi-agent Game theory
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Independent Route Verification

Closing the conflict-of-interest gap for time charterers

VesselFront, 2023
Charterers Claims
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