Company: GPAC
Filing Date: 2025-11-18
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001140361-25-042608
Chunk: 11

Company: General Purpose Acquisition Corp.
Filing Date: 2025-11-18
Form: S-1/A
Chunk 11
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as Group since March 2021, a vessel owner and operator that operates with a commitment to protecting human health, safety, the environment, and property. He previously served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Gener8 Maritime (formerly NYSE: GNRT) from 2015 to 2018 and Chairman and Founder of Maritime Equity Partners from 2010 to 2016). Prior to that, he served as founder Chairman and Director of Genco Shipping & Trading Limited (NYSE: GNK) and founder Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General Maritime Corporation from its inception in 1997 to 2015. Mr. Georgiopoulos also served as non-executive Chairman of Aegean Maritime Petroleum (formerly NYSE: ANW). Earlier in his career, he was the principal of Maritime Equity Management LLC, a ship-owning and investment company he founded in 1991 and led until 1997. He also worked as an investment banker at Drexel Burnham Lambert from 1987 to 1990. Prior to entering investment banking, Mr. Georgiopoulos gained experience in the sale, purchase, and chartering of vessels while working for shipowners in New York and Piraeus, Greece Mr. Georgiopoulos also has extensive experience as an investor in various technology companies serving on the Board of JPay, SeaArctos, Payment Works, Quantum HPC and CentaurLab AI. Mr Georgiopoulos holds an M.B.A. from Dartmouth College. Leonard Vrondissis , our President and Director, has over 25 years of experience in the shipping industry, with a particular focus on shipping finance. He has been instrumental taking 3 companies public on the NYSE and 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS NASDAQ exchanges. He is a co-founder of United Overseas Group, a business he started alongside Mr. Georgiopoulos, and currently serves as a Director. Over the course of his career, Mr. Vrondissis has completed approximately $9 billion in transactions across public and private equity, traditional bank financing, and high-yield bonds, and has facilitated over $7 billion in M&A activity. He served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Gener8 Maritime Inc. from 2015 to 2018, and previously held the same roles at General Maritime Corporation from 2013 to 2015. He also served as co founder and Executive Vice President of Maritime Equity Partners from 2010 to 2016 and has been Treasurer of Maritime Equity Management