Company: DSX-PB
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001562762-25-000050
Chunk: 175

Company: DIANA SHIPPING INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 6
Chunk 175
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financial

consultant to various shipping companies. He was employed by Chase Manhattan Bank N. A. in Frankfurt

(Corporate

Bank),

London

(Head

of

Shipping

Finance

South

Western

European

Region)

and

Piraeus

(Manager, Ship Finance Group) from 1975 to 1987.

Mr.

Kontoyannis holds a bachelor's

degree in Finance and

Marketing and a

master's degree in

Business

Administration and Finance from Boston University.

Konstantinos Fotiadis

has served as a

Director of Diana Shipping Inc.

since 2017.

Mr. Fotiadis served

as an independent

Director and

as the Chairman

of the Audit

Committee of

Performance Shipping

Inc. (ex.

Diana Containerships

Inc.) (NASDAQ:

PSHG) from

the completion

of Performance

Shipping Inc.

(ex. Diana

89

Containerships Inc.)’s

private offering

until February 2011.

From 1990

until 1994,

Mr.

Fotiadis served

as

the President and

Managing Director of Reckitt

& Colman (Greece),

part of the

British multinational Reckitt

&

Colman

plc,

manufacturers

of

household,

cosmetics

and

health

care

products.

From

1981

until

its

acquisition in 1989

by Reckitt &

Colman plc, Mr.

Fotiadis was a

General Manager at

Dr. Michalis

S. A., a

Greek company manufacturing and marketing cosmetics and health care products. From 1978 until

1981,

Mr.

Fotiadis held

positions

with

Esso

Chemicals Ltd.

and

Avrassoglou

S. A.

Mr.

Fotiadis

has

also

been

active as a business consultant and real estate developer.

Mr.

Fotiadis

holds

a

degree

in

Economics

from

Technische

Universitaet

Berlin

and

in

Business

Administration from Freie Universitaet Berlin.

Simon Morecroft

has served as

a Director of

Diana Shipping Inc.

since May 2022.

He also serves

as a

Director of Enarxis Ltd,

a shipping consultancy

company. Mr. Morecroft spent his career in the

shipbroking

industry

as