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= Andrea Zito = Swan Hellenic CEO Andrea Zito, a naval architect and marine engineer with a Master from Genova University, began his career at Saipem as drilling offshore units project manager before launching at beginning of the 90’ a partnership with Martinoli Group as tech Manager for Costa Cruises.

Following Costa’s acquisition by Carnival, Andrea moved to Monaco and expanded his ship management business with leading tanker operators and cruise companies until his company was acquired by V-Ships in 2005.

Serving as CEO of V-Ships Leisure and V-Group Chief Technical Officer, he joined Silversea in 2017 as SVP Operation Safety and Crewing, overseeing its new build program and later the integration in Royal Caribbean group.

In early 2020, Andrea revived the Swan Hellenic name and cultural expedition cruising with 3 polar expedition new buildings at Helsinki Shipyard.

Andrea Zito, Swan Hellenic’s Chief Executive Officer and a Reserve Officer in the Italian Navy, has a long and distinguished C-suite career in the cruise industry. Born in Trieste, he studied in Genoa, gaining an MSc in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. He then worked in the offshore, shipping and cruise industries for many years, mainly in Genoa, before establishing himself in the Principality of Monaco.

His first job was with Saipem in Milan, where he worked in offshore vessels, semi-submersibles and jack-ups. He then moved to a professional partnership with Martinoli Group where he was Project Manager for various Costa Cruises ships built in the early 1990s and managed several Costa vessels from their Genoa and Miami offices before settling in Monaco in 1995.

When Costa was acquired by Carnival Corp in 1997, Andrea expanded his ship management activities in Monaco, working for various oil tanker operators and cruise companies, including Festival and Renaissance Cruises, until his company was acquired by V-Ships in 2005.

Andrea stayed with V-Ships until 2017, first as CEO of V-Ships Leisure and then as V-Group’s Chief Technical Officer. Not long after V-Group’s fourth-round private equity transaction, client Silversea took its ship management in-house and brought Andrea with it, in agreement with V-Group, of which he remains a shareholder. As Senior Vice President Operation Safety and Crewing, he managed Silversea’s new build programme and majority acquisition by Royal Caribbean.

Then, in early 2020, Andrea embarked on another completely new adventure. Leaving Silversea, he and a small number of investors signed a contract for three new expedition ships from Helsinki Shipyard, while acquiring the Swan Hellenic name to renew its founders’ iconic vision of cultural expedition cruising.

Education
Master Degree in Naval Architecture and Mechanical Engineering 1985  Institute of Naval Architecture and Mechanical Engineering, University of Genoa, Italy

Professional Affiliations Registered Professional Naval Architect and Marine Engineer – Italian Chartered Engineers Member of RINA (Royal Institution of Naval Architects) Member of CNISF (French association of Chartered Engineers) Member of the professional chamber of surveyors of Monaco as marine/yacht surveyor since 2003 Rina Certification as internal auditor for ISM code and ISO 9000

Career
SVP, Marine Operations, Safety and Crewing In charge of the Marine Operations including the Procurement of the Silversea Fleet (9 cruise ships in operation worldwide in the luxury and luxury polar expedition segment), including the responsibility of overseeing the newbuilding program (3 ship under construction with Fincantieri and 3 new projects, 1 with MayerWerft and 2 with DeHoop) plus the conversion program (300mil EU for 2017-2021) including the lengthening of m/v Silver Spirit, ice/polar expedition conversion of Silver Cloud and Wind, re-juvenation of Silver Whisper and Silver Shadow and installation of scrubbers on mm/vv SSpirit and SMuse in 2021. In charge of the Deck and Engine and Hotel crew management (3200 crew members) including the training and recruiting for the Silversea fleet.

Part of due diligence and integration team for the merging of Silversea with Royal Caribbean completed in July 2018.

V Group
Chief Technical Officer In charge of the Technical Operations of the Group including overview and allocation of the technical resources for ship management (Cargo and Leisure and Offshore) with major achievements the development of the dry-dock and subject matter expert support group, development of the IT/technological platform for the performances monitoring together with major industry partners. Supervising the engineering and service business units of the Group including development of the turn key projects unit (scrubbers, chillers, BWT plant retrofit etc) and various consultancy and newbuilding/conversion projects especially in the cruise and offshore sectors. Involved as senior manager/shareholder in the various financial transactions/change of ownership of the group involving various private equity funds

V-Ships Leisure:
Chief Executive Officer Continuing developing the passenger vessel activities of the group, expanding the technical consulting activities and starting VDelta a JV with Deltamarin for the activities of newbuilding and conversion of cruise-ferries-yachts (25 conversion projects secured and developed)

Chief Operating Officer
Managing 45 cruise and ferry vessels under full technical management, 50 vessels under crew management in addition to 50 yachts in full management.

Reporting to the CEO managing team of 210 people ashore, 4000 crew on-board and recruiting annually in excess of 7800 deck engine and hotel crew

Managing Director and part Owner
Business development and supervision including cargo & passenger vessels management, marine consultancy and damage survey for Hull Underwriters and P&I Clubs.

Successfully managed technical operations for Costa Crociere since 1991 including two newbuildings (Costa Marina and Costa Allegra) and several conversions.

Expanded the client basis adding 10 Renaissance ships, startup of Oceania cruises, 2 Iberojet vessels, 3 ex-Festival vessels, and 1 Marina Cruises ship, Italia Prima, Switzerland, Adriana and Oriental Pearl.

Managing fleet of up to 12 product tankers mainly belonging to Arminter SAM including 2 newbuilding at STX

Oversaw the sale and merging of the Martinoli Group into V-Ships in 2005

Costa Crociere, Italy
Project Manager, new building department

SAIPEM – Offshore contractor (ENI group), Italy
Project Engineer in charge of the maintenance worldwide of offshore drilling platforms and pipe laying barges. Assistant Project Manager for the new building semisubmersible offshore drilling platform “Scarabeo 5” for operation in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.

Italian Navy
Officer Technical Corps. – Naval architecture professor at Leghorn Navy Academy.

Coe & Clerici – Ship Owners, Italy
New building supervision responsible for two 10.000 dwt bulk barge at Fincantieri Trieste.