Mr Christoph Toepfer, Chief Executive Officer, Borealis Maritime Ltd
Christoph Toepfer is CEO & Founder of the Borealis Maritime Group, an independent maritime investment and ship management firm based in London. Since inception in 2010, Borealis Maritime has invested over $2.5bn of capital in partnership with leading institutional investors.
Today, Borealis has around $1.5 billion of assets under management, and is managing a fleet of 25 vessels in the container, chemical tanker and offshore supply vessel sectors. Via its subsidiary Australis Maritime, the group has provided over $1 billion in debt financing to other shipowners, financing over 15 vessels in all sectors. Borealis co-established Hanseatic Unity Chartering for the commercial management of container vessels, and it has its own ship management divisions with Borealis & Boden Denizcilik in Istanbul and Aurora Offshore in Kristiansand.
In 2019, Borealis launched Aurora Marine Fuels as a worldwide supplier of marine fuels and lubricants. Prior to Borealis, Christoph was Managing Director of Allocean. Christoph holds a Bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University, New York, and a Master’s degree in Shipping, Trade & Finance from Cass Business School in London.