Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Co-Founder
David is a co-founder of Odisea Yachts and is a joint Spanish and British national who resides in London although travels extensively globally. David was also raised in Australia where he obtained his education as a MSc at the University of Technology, Sydney before relocating to the EU where he pursued a successful corporate career as well as seeding several technology start-ups.
David has always been a keen sailor since his teens where he learned the ropes on the J24 circuit in Sydney harbor. Once in Europe, he progressed to yacht delivery before moving into the corporate world. As working life took over, David retained his love for the sea and has owned several yachts over the years. David dream will remain to one day sail safely around the world.
David’s love for the sea comes only second to his love for his wife and 5 children and his advocacy for a greener and more sustainable future which led him to start Odisea with an eye to reduce the footprint existing boat construction materials and methods leave on the planet.
Chief Operating Officer
Elena, joined Odisea as Chief Operating officer after having a successful career in project management and portfolio governance across diverse sectors, including retail, energy trading, insurance, and international development, in a global environment. Throughout her career, she has been leading and supporting complex technical assistance, business change and IT programmes helping to streamline business processes, improve governance, ensure increased revenues and enhance customer satisfaction. Elena holds an international MBA in Entrepreneurship and an MA in International Business.
These experiences led her to the realization that what she enjoyed most about being in project and portfolio management would carry over to Yacht business- strategy, execution, organisational skills whilst helping people realise their dreams of sailing.
Having worked and lived in various European, Asian and African countries, Elena is a multilingual professional fluent in English, German, and Russian, with ongoing studies in Spanish.
When not caring for her young family, she indulges her love for travel, exploring new places, enjoying diverse cuisines, and immersing herself in captivating international books and movies.
Global Sales and Marketing Leader
Dailey leads global sales for Odisea. He brings years of yachting and sailing experience to the Odisea team. Dailey joined yachting industry after a successful corporate career leading international businesses, while always pursuing his yachting passions. Starting off, Dailey worked as a boat yard rigger to fund his way through college and gained a Navy Scholarship for his first engineering degree, and eight years of Naval Flight service including Gulf War I and multiple deployments abroad. After a graduate engineering degree, he spent 25+ years in High Tech and Sustainability field, all the while pursuing his passions for the water and yachting.
Sailing experience started in dinghies and he worked his way to become a big boat bowman on offshore racing yachts on both East, West coasts, and Caribbean as well as multiple other racing platform. Beyond racing, Dailey is a skilled mechanic, rigger, fiberglass/carbon fabrication and repair, and marine wood working.
In personal life, Dailey and his wife Jessica split time between the Northern Chesapeake and Annapolis. They have two children and two grandchildren. Dailey is a competitive athlete in open water swimming, long distance trail running and the continued focus on racing sailboats.
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