Nicolas Tirogalas

Mr. Nicolas Tirogalas is a Chief Investment Officer & President at Tufton Investment Management Ltd.
He has more than 25 years of public and private markets experience across a multitude of industries and sectors.
During the last 15 years, he has focused on the shipping and offshore industries.
Most recently he has worked for North American and European financial institutions and investment managers with their maritime investments in a consultancy capacity.
Formerly, he served as the Managing Director of TMS Cardiff Gas where he had overall responsibility for the company’s activities and oversaw its growth since its founding until his departure in 2016.
Before that, he was EVP Commercial and Finance at TMS Group where he evaluated and oversaw investments and executed multiple capital raises (debt and equity) in most traditional maritime segments, including drybulk, tankers, containers, LNG, LPG, and offshore.
Prior to that, he worked at Glencore in Houston in the oil trading department, and at investment bank Lazard in New York and Montreal where he advised numerous transportation and industrial companies in M&A and restructuring assignments.
He started his career at Canada’s National Bank Financial in the equity derivatives trading team.
He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.