People

A young company with traditional values.

Witherby Seamanship International believes in bringing together a mix of older more experienced seafarers and young creative designers. The materials created by this fusion of styles have instant appeal to the modern seafarer.

  Chairman
Alan Witherby
 
Managing Director
Iain Macneil 
 

Director
Kathleen Witherby

Director
Kat Heathcote

 

IT Director
Johan Machtelinckx
 

Non-exec Director
Andrew Collins

General Manager

Stewart Heney
 

   

Snr Advisor
(Marine Operations)

Michael Lloyd

Snr Advisor                      
(Hazardous Cargoes)

Olaf Olsen
Technical Advisor
Iain Brown
     

        

 

Johan Machtelinckx - IT Director

Johan spent 10 years at sea with CMB, Exmar and Tecto serving on general cargo ships, container vessels, product tankers and LPG/LNG Carriers, reaching the rank of Chief Officer. In 2001, after a computer sciences post-graduation course at the UCL (Belgian University of Louvain-La-Neuve),  he joined Witherby Seamanship International to provide a mixture of  Software development and technical industry skills.

Johan became Witherby Seamanship’s IT Director in 2004 and is now responsible for the development of all of the product and customised project portfolio.

When he was 7, Johan wanted to be an Astronaut.

Email:     johan@emailws.com
Tel:     44(0)1506 463 227