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                                                                                      AS OUR MOTTO DECLARES,

                                                                                       “WE ARE LARGE ENOUGH

                                                                                    TO DELIVER, SMALL ENOUGH
                                                                                                      TO CARE.”












                                                                                   motto unfolds its philosophy and principles setting clients in central stage.
                                                                                   “As a matter of fact, every client, whether he is buying a small 40 ft yacht or a
                                                                                   large 40-meter yacht, is equally important. For both clients, the moment he
                                                                                   decided to purchase a yacht is a significant one regardless the size. We teach
                                                                                   our team that they always need to bear this in mind and appreciate that, if a
                                                                                   client trusted us for the purchase of a yacht, or even for choosing us to organize
                                                                                   their yachting vacation, it is a huge honor. Therefore, our team understands
                                                                                   that they simply must be hands on to assure that his experience should be
                                                                                   the best in every aspect. To secure that, more than 60% of our team (even in
                                                                                   administrate rolls), in all three companies have a skipper’s license and have
                                                                                   spent significant time on board various types of yachts” says Roy Klajman.
                                                                                   The Greece base team has been carefully selected to offer specialized exper-
                                                                                   tise led by Office Manager, Asimina Papadimitriou who has a strong mari-
                                                                                   time management background. “As the Office Manager, I’m involved in all
                                                                                   the company's activities, sales, charters and the day-to-day operations. I also
                                                                                   cooperate with the sister companies' employees to ensure all services provid-
                                                                                   ed, follow the standards set by the Shareholders. I really like the SAG family.
                                                                                   From the beginning, I’ve always felt like a valued member of the team as they
                                                                                   really appreciate the people that work for them.”
                                                                                   Asimina is joined by Operations Manager, Manousos Syngelakis, who gets
                                                                                   involved across the business and comes from a marine background having
                                                                                   worked in Greece for a yacht management company.  Manousos has an ex-
                                                                                   cellent insight into the technical side of yachting and a real passion for the sea
                                                                                   and all types of yachts and their mechanical aspects.
                                                                                   Charter and Sales Manager, Evita Kargioti, whose main responsibilities are
                                                                                   to deal with clients’ requests for yacht charters and support clients who are
                                                                                   buying or selling a yacht. Evita began her career in yachting as a yacht agent in
                                                                                   2013 providing services to commercial and private yachts up to 100m.  Evita
                                                                                   has a passion for yachting, which led her to focus her career on yacht charter
                                                                                   and sales roles over the last couple of years.
                                                                                   The Greek office is also supported by Katerina Siouti whose main role is to
                                                                                   manage and enlarge the CA Fleet and to promote charters with the company.
                                                                                   Katerina also looks after management of the smaller yachts sales, ensuring the
                                                                                   smooth collaboration between clients, brokers and owners.
                                                                                   The office’s location allows for an upbuilding business association between
                                                                                   the company’s head office in Gibraltar and its sister company, Stream Yachts,
                                                                                   located in Israel. That is a significant point, as they look at their group of com-
                                                                                   panies like a small yacht where all parts of the crew need to work together and
                                                                                   all parts of the yacht need to be able to work in great synergy and assist each
                        STRENGTH IS IN UNITY                                       other. They imagine their group as a yacht, where the most Western part is
                   Roy Klajman, Itay Zinger and Uri Idan join forces               the Gibraltar office, and the East part is the offices in the Red Sea, or along
                         to run the Sea Alliance Group.                            the coastline of Israel. Athens is the “center cockpit” of the yacht. 




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