PRIME PETROLEUM SERVICES INC - Leof. Vouliagmenis 85

Irene Notias is a businesswoman who has been working in the Marine fuels (Bunker) Industry since 1999, as a bunker fuels broker. Her mission has been to help her clients sustain their businesses through efficient cost savings by strategy and consultation, training and educating via seminars and presentations. Irene’s interest has always been on improvement. Hence, she has spent numerous years creating systems and procedures for her business besides producing educational presentations to train personnel and newcomers. She has authored several trade articles for Petrospot, World Bunkering, Ship & Bunker, besides numerous Greek Shipping trade journals. One of the most recent one being “The Achilles Heel of Shipping” published in the Maritime Executive, April 14, 2019.

A broker business of her own emerged in February 2002. Till today, Irene runs this company out of Greece and enjoys servicing Greece’s finest shipowners and educating all stakeholders in the dynamics of bunker pricing, financing, and the supply value chain and how it affects the end user’s interests, as well as the sellers.

She has organized and spoken in several forums, latest for Posidonia 2020 web series.

Prior to a career in bunkering, she worked in executive administration posts in a ship owning company and multi-national corporations like IBM & Nichiman America in NYC where she also created a startup business in wholesale and retail sales, lasting a decade. Later in Greece, she became a Systems Analyst for Ceres Hellenic Hydrofoils.

Irene is a graduate of Pace University, NYC, with a Bachelors in Business Administration (BBA) degree in International Management (minors Marketing & Political Science). She has also studied Human Relations at Brooklyn College’s Master’s Program in Psychology.

She is an active member of IBIA and has sat on several boards of trade associations such as WISTA Hellas and is a Governor of the US Propeller Club Port of Piraeus.

She founded the NPO, Project Connect, in 2015, to enhance youth employability in shipping companies and prevent brain drain in Greece – a common phenomenon in the Mediterranean. This same NPO is responsible for introducing and implementing the Adopt a Ship maritime educational program in Greek elementary schools which is now running in its 3rd school year. Like her favorite painting by Artist, Eva Divari, The Surfer, Irene has learned to ride the waves.