Company: DSX-PB
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001562762-25-000050
Chunk: 178

Company: DIANA SHIPPING INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 6
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and

Corporate

Responsibility”

program

at

London

Business

School

and

has

obtained

the

Certification in

Shipping Derivatives

from Athens

University of

Economics and

Business. Ms.

Veniou is also

a member of WISTA Hellas and ISO 14001 certified by Lloyd’s Register.

Maria-Christina

Tsemani

has

served

as

the

Company’s

Chief

People

Officer

since

July

2022.

Ms.

Tsemani

also

serves

as

HR

Manager

of

Diana

Shipping

Services

S. A.,

a

position

she

has

held

since

October 2020.

Ms.

Tsemani

has over

20 years

of experience

in human

resources across

multinational companies

and

institutional

organizations.

Before

joining

Diana

Shipping,

Ms.

Tsemani

was

People

Acquisition

and

Development Manager of

Vodafone Greece.

During her career in

Vodafone from

2008 to 2020,

she held

various

other

positions,

including

Senior

HR

Business

Partner

and

Organizational

Effectiveness

and

Reward

Manager.

From

2004

to

2008,

Ms.

Tsemani

worked

as

a

Senior

HR

Consultant

in

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). From

2001 to

2004, she

served as

a Project Manager

in the

European

Commission, based in Luxembourg.

Ms. Tsemani

holds a

bachelor’s degree

in Mathematical

Sciences and

a Master’s

of Science

in Applied

Statistics from the University of Oxford, UK.

B.

Compensation

Aggregate executive

compensation (including

amounts paid

to Steamship)

for 2024

was $6.2

million. Since

June 1, 2010, Steamship, a related party,

as described in "Item 7. Major Shareholders and

Related Party

Transactions - B. Related

Party Transactions"

has provided

to us

brokerage services.

Under the

Brokerage

Services

Agreements

in

effect

during

2024,

fees

for

2024

amounted

to

$4.1

million

and