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Our Leadership

Board of Directors

Captain Gianluigi Aponte
MSC Group Chairman
TiL Board Director
Diego Aponte
MSC Group President
TiL Board Chairman
Elâ Aponte-Soyuer
MSC Group Senior Vice President
TiL Board Director
Søren Toft
MSC Chief Executive Officer
TiL Board Director
Hugues Favard
MSC Chief Investment Officer
TiL Board Director
Adebayo Ogunlesi
GIP Chairman, Founding & Managing Partner
TiL Board Director
Michael McGhee
GIP Founding Partner & Deputy Chairman
TiL Board Director
George Kay
GIC Managing Director & Head Infrastructure Europe
TiL Board Director
Emmanuel Réveillaud
Kaufhold & Reveillaud, Avocats Partner
TiL Board Director

Management Team

Ammar Kanaan

Chief Executive Officer

Ammar Kanaan has been the CEO of TiL since April 2018. Ammar's experience in the container terminal industry and in the transportation field in general dates back to 1992, when he first worked as a consultant between 1992 to 2004, after which he started his own company that provided management, systems and technical services to the container terminal industry, and later invested in the development and operations of container terminals most notably KAP on the Red Sea alongside TiL. Ammar has a Master's degree from MIT and an engineering degree from AUB.

Romain Simon

Chief Operating Officer

Romain Simon is the Chief Operating Officer of TiL. Romain has 20 years' experience in M&A, corporate finance and infrastructure investments with large corporate experience in the Energy & Transportation sector. Romain holds a Masters' degree in Finance from the University of Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris and a Masters' of Engineering in Aerospace Engineering from ISAE-SUPAERO, Toulouse.

Benoît Van Hellemont

Chief Investment Officer

Benoît Van Hellemont is Chief Investment Officer of TiL, responsible for TiL's investing activities and portfolio development across its global port infrastructure platform. He leads the evaluation, structuring, and execution of investments across a worldwide network of terminal assets, focused on long-term value creation. He has over 15 years of experience in M&A, infrastructure investing, corporate finance, and capital markets, with a focus on complex, capital-intensive transactions. Prior to joining TiL, he held positions at Allen & Overy and the London Stock Exchange Group, working on transactional and market-facing activities.

José Bou Malhab

Deputy Chief Investment Officer

José Bou Malhab joined TiL in 2019 and currently serves as Deputy Chief Investment Officer. He brings more than 10 years of experience in investments, M&A, corporate finance, business modelling, and valuation, with particular expertise in port infrastructure and container terminal investments.
He also serves as Terminal Investment Director for the Middle East region, where he oversees TiL's terminals in the area. José holds a master's in management from HEC Paris and an engineering degree from USJ, Lebanon.

Alex Hall

Chief Financial Officer

Alex brings over 25 years of experience in senior executive roles across finance, strategy, and operations. Most recently, he spent more than two decades at ABB, where he held prominent leadership positions, including CFO of the E-Mobility Division, Head of Global Finance Operations, and Head of Capital Markets and Group Treasurer. Before his tenure at ABB, Alex gained valuable experience in Business Development at IBM and Structured Asset Finance at NatWest Markets. His career has equipped him with extensive expertise in financial strategy, operational excellence, and leadership within complex global environments.

Carl-Henry Piel

Chief Technical Officer

Carl-Henry Piel serves as the Chief Technical Officer for TiL overseeing all technical activities of the firm including civil infrastructure, procurement of quay and yard cranes and other container handling equipment, maintenance, terminal operating systems and supporting information and operations technologies and cybersecurity. Carl-Henry holds a Master of Electrical and Computer Engineering and previously led the Intelligent Transportation Systems consulting practice for IBI Group in the United States.

Miika Heiskanen

General Counsel

Miika Heiskanen was named as the General Counsel of TiL in April 2022. He joined TiL from its shareholder, MSC where he was Assistant General Counsel and established and ran a team of lawyers responsible for M&A and corporate projects. Prior to joining the MSC, Miika worked at a NYSE listed oil and gas industry contractor and for two leading international law firms in New York, Helsinki, London and Tokyo. He has law degrees from the University of Helsinki and the University of Chicago Law School and he is a member of the New York Bar.

Terminal Investment Directors

Tom Van Eynde
Terminal Investment Director
North American Region
Patricio Junior
Terminal Investment Director
Central & South American Regions
Paolo Maccarini
Terminal Investment Director
Mediterranean Region
Chris Schaffers
Terminal Investment Director
Asian & North European Regions,
Health and Safety Director
David El Bez
Terminal Investment Director
French, Eastern Atlantic & African Regions
Terminal Investment Director
North European Region