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 Technical Officer (CTO) and Co-Founder
Markos is a Co-founder of Odisea Yachts and is a Greek national with some Italian roots. He obtained his Bachelor of Engineering in Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering and his MSc in the same field in Glasgow, Scotland. Due to his father profession in Naval Architecture, Markos had a natural curiosity in this field from a early age and indeed a close connection to the sea. From the age of 10 to 17, he was a competitive swimmer while at the same time, he would sail traditional wooden latin boats in races progressing to sail the Aegean Race as a very young crew member. Markos loves his profession and has managed to implement his unique ideas into numerous client designs over the years from small ribs to large commercial vessels. For him, Odisea Yachts is a way to deliver functional, ergonomic and efficient designs that can be manufactured in a carbon-neutral, non-toxic manner using at least 50% of recycled aluminium and up to 90% of parts that can be recycled after its useful life. Odisea is the platform to fulfil his dream of building vessels that are non-harmful to the environment.
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.
Production lead
Adonis has extensive Aluminium boat construction and fit-out expertise having worked in the Philipines, Australia and Vietnam for over 28 years for companies such as Austral and Strategic Marine. He is well versed in running complex multiple-builds from small vessels to fit-out of cruise liners. Adonis is a graduate from the University of the Visaya where he majored in Mechanical engineering and leads all our production in the Shipyard.
Project superintendent and Hydraulics expert
Jeffrey has over 10 years experience in the ship building industry as a warrant office, project superintendent and hydraulics expert across the Philipines, Australia and Vietnam for Austral, Strategic Marine and in the industrial space. Jeffrey is a graduate from Cebu University in the Philipines where he majored in industrial engineering.
Painting and Insulation engineer
Nam has over 14 years working in the Ship building industry as a painting and insulation engineer for various prestigious organisations in Vietnam as well as holding numerous industry certifications. Nam has a Naval Architecture and Ship Building degree from Nha Trang University.
Foreman and production engineer
Tung has over 18 years working in the Ship building industry in various roles for companies such as Hyundai & Strategic Marine in Vietnam where he managed large teams to deliver multiple small and large scale projects. Tun has a Ship mechanical engineering degree from Nha Trang University.
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