The people who broker the great yachts.

He built Burgess into a global full-service house over four decades, guiding owners through sale, charter and new construction of the world's most significant yachts with a broker's steady, discreet hand.

He anchors Burgess's brokerage leadership, pairing deep market knowledge with the patient client work that turns a listing into the right owner at the right time.

He brings the discipline of a military career and hands-on southern-hemisphere brokerage experience to representing sellers and buyers of very large yachts.

He leads Fraser with a builder's understanding of the product and a belief that technology and a hands-on team deliver better service to owners and charter guests.

His legal training and market fluency let him structure complex transactions cleanly, which is why owners trust him with intricate sale and purchase deals.

He knows the 30-to-60m market intimately and works buyers and sellers worldwide with the calm persistence that closes considered deals.

He has spent his whole working life around boats, and that lifetime of on-the-water knowledge shows in how thoroughly he represents his clients' interests.

He turned one office into a worldwide brokerage while keeping the client-first culture that let the firm reach its 75th year as a leader.

He drives the commercial side of a global brokerage while keeping the focus on the service standards that repeat clients come back for.

She spent years at sea as one of very few female captains before coming ashore to broker, and that captain's eye for a good boat earns her clients' trust.

A former charter-yacht chef turned broker, she plans itineraries with a crew member's insight and has given real service to the industry through charter safety work.

He brought a dot-com era feel for tech and marketing to a family brokerage and built it into a national powerhouse without losing the family name's care.

He understood yachting as a luxury brand before most did, and grew Edmiston into a top-end house known for a very high share of the largest yacht sales.

He founded a firm to serve the very top of yachting and remains one of the most respected voices on how great yachts are built and cared for.

A former new-build project manager, he applies real construction know-how to represent owners commissioning some of the world's most iconic superyachts.

He built a modern brokerage on decades of hands-on experience, growing Worth Avenue Yachts into a recognized name in luxury sales and charter.

He grew up living aboard boats and turned a lifetime on the water into relationships that made him a trusted broker to some of the largest yacht owners in the world.

A former captain who ran a leading charter fleet for years, he serves clients so well he even flies his own aircraft to get them to and from their yachts.

Having worked aboard as crew, she knows exactly what makes a charter memorable and plans each one with an insider's care for the guest experience.

A pioneer of owner-operated charter, he built Ocean Independence into a global full-service firm while keeping the personal, service-first ethic he started with.

After 20 years as a founding partner at Edmiston, he built a deliberately small firm on the principle of fewer clients served better.

His years working aboard large yachts give Y.CO a rare crew-and-captain fluency, connecting owners to boats and to the people who run them well.

He captained giants before he brokered them, and that lived experience of running big yachts underpins how Y.CO advises owners.

He helped invent modern crew agency and has represented buyers and sellers since superyachting's infancy, a genuine elder of the trade.

Fifty years in Mallorca's nautical business make him a trusted, plain-speaking adviser who has seen the Mediterranean market through every cycle.

She leads the US arm of a house with centuries of heritage, carrying its standards into the American market with a modern, client-first approach.

He brought decades of yacht-building leadership to a storied brokerage, and clients benefit from someone who understands boats from the yard up.

He has led two of the largest yachting houses and keeps his teams focused on the owner's experience above all else.

He gives owners and charter guests in the Pacific region a dedicated local point of contact backed by a global brokerage.

Raised in yachting by his father George Nicholson, Fernando started broking in Cannes in 1986 and opened Camper & Nicholsons' first Miami office in 1994, where he still serves clients in four languages.

The son of a yacht captain, Sean worked his way up from deckhand to first officer and through a major refit and an 80 metre new build, and now brings that hands-on knowledge to owners planning their own construction projects.

A lifelong competitive sailor with a background in mechanics and engineering, Henry travels the world to inspect yachts himself so his clients get an honest read on quality, in the fewer-clients-served-better spirit of his firm.

Richard went from crewing an 85 foot sailing yacht in Australia to nearly two decades of brokerage on the French Riviera, where his clients trust him with confidential off-market sales that need a steady, private hand.

Roberto went to sea young, earned his Master Mariner ticket in 1974, and built a career from the bridge to the boardroom, giving Fraser a leader who has genuinely lived every part of a life at sea.

Bruce has worked from the same Goat Island office since 1983, first alongside his father at Bartram & Brakenhoff and then for 23 years leading Perini Navi USA, carrying a family passion for great sailing yachts into everything he brokers.

Stefanos started in mega yacht marine insurance, co-founded an East Mediterranean yachting company in 2005, and led IYC from 2015 into one of the industry's largest charter and sales houses, now focused on its brand and technology.

Based in the South of France since he left the Royal Navy, Rupert has spent over three decades at Burgess and completed more than 50 sales, including the 110 metre new build Jubilee, quietly shaping the Monaco office as he went.

Since skippering charters in the East Mediterranean in 1987, Tim has packed in more race weeks, refits and yard visits than most, and he shares that depth on VAT, import and build questions so buyers go in with their eyes open.

After two decades in brokerage, Brian co-founded Worth Avenue Yachts in 2011 on a simple idea, that brokers should pool their expertise and look after clients together, and the firm has since sold well over a billion dollars of yachts.

Ben joined Burgess in brokerage, moved into charter, and became one of the firm's youngest partners during the pandemic, and now helps guide a combined team of nearly 100 while still managing some of the best-known charter yachts himself.

Robert spent two decades as a yacht chef, circumnavigated the globe seven times, and turned that time at sea into a broking career built on a genuine been-there attitude, now managing many of the world's top charter yachts.

Alex crewed yachts for nearly ten years before coming ashore, and over more than a decade he helped Denison stand up its charter division, Mexico office and superyacht division, all grounded in a family love of the water going back to his great grandfather.

A keen yachtsman with two Atlantic crossings behind him, Toby has given years of service to the wider industry, leading MYBA as president from 2009 to 2014 while helping shape Ocean Independence across its offices.

With more than three decades broking across the US, Spain, the Middle East and Asia, Iain was named Broker of the Year at the Arabian Gulf Yachting Awards and has come full circle back to the firm where he started in 2001.

Jim has sold 57 yachts over 100 feet across a 38 year career, including the three largest yachts ever sold by his former firm, earning a quiet reputation as one of the most productive brokers in the business.

Ed came to Burgess as a naval architect and new build project manager, and his first-class training in marine technology means owners of semi-custom yachts get advice rooted in how these boats are actually engineered and built.

Ben spent his early years as deck crew crossing the Atlantic on a classic Feadship and an Amels, and since joining Y.CO in 2017 he has given buyers and sellers the same straight, impartial read on fair market value that he learned to value at sea.

Across 35 years in yachting, Antoine has closed nearly 60 superyacht sales up to 74 metres for clients of 17 nationalities and knows the work of 29 different builders, a breadth of experience that lets him match owner to yacht with real precision.

Jim went from equity sales to captaining yachts in the Caribbean before coming ashore in 2006, and he now shares that mix of markets and seamanship openly at industry conferences on how yachts are really priced.

Nearly three decades at one house, still a Yachtmaster instructor and competitive sailor who respects the sea and the client in equal measure.

The trusted senior point of contact who quietly carries a client through contracts, marketing and operations without ever losing the thread.

A Cape Cod kid who turned a lifetime on the water into award-winning sales, and brought that hands-on knowledge to Fraser in 2018.

He grew up aboard a 72-foot classic sailing yacht and has served clients with that same salt-in-the-blood devotion for four decades.

A West Coast steward who has walked shipyards and listed yachts from San Diego to the Med, always closer to the build than the hype.

Four decades in and he still leads with knowledge and service first, the kind of steady hand a first-time owner hopes to find.

He helped build the Newport office from scratch and has kept showing up for its clients ever since, which is its own kind of loyalty.

Deals closed in 14 countries speak to a broker who travels to the client and the boat rather than waiting for either to come to him.

He brings Edmiston's senior-led, few-clients-better-served ethos to American owners, close to every file he runs.

A decade in charter and she cares for a whole fleet of central agents, the unglamorous groundwork that makes a guest's week effortless.

He started as crew on large sailing yachts and worked his way up to lead UK sales, never forgetting the deck where it all began.

A multi-award broker who opened IYC's San Diego office and champions the next generation of young professionals in yachting.

An ex-captain who crossed the Atlantic seven times, he is as trusted for candid counsel as for the extraordinary yachts he represents.

He started below deck in the crew quarters, earned his captain's ticket, then learned ownership from the inside before ever selling a boat.

He helps owners and buyers navigate the market with plain confidence, as at home on a new-build project as on a brokerage listing.

Raised on Manhasset Bay and seasoned in build, refit and charter, he is the kind of all-rounder clients call before a decision, not after.

Two decades in command taught him what really matters aboard, and he gives clients that first-hand honesty rather than a brochure line.

More than 150 regattas since 1975, from the Dragon Worlds to the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, give him a racer's feel for what a great yacht should be.

From the bridge of the 70m Reverie to selling 50-plus yachts, he built YPI's global sales desk on a captain's earned, unhurried judgment.

Her path through Russia, France and England gives charter guests a broker who genuinely speaks their language and their idea of a perfect week.

He carries one of yachting's oldest names forward with a modern broker's care, guiding owners through the biggest decisions calmly.

Based in Asia since 2013, he understands a region most brokers only visit, and connects its owners to the wider yachting world with real fluency.

Born to a family of small-boat builders, he listens first and imposes no house style, drawing landmark hulls hand in hand with the engineers, yards and owners he calls a community of trust.

A protege of Jon Bannenberg, he has drawn scores of superyachts to feel warm, human and lived-in, giving owners and crew interiors and lines with the ease of a home rather than a showroom.

Devoted purely to exterior line and trained under Jon Bannenberg, he gives Lurssen, Amels and Damen builds their graceful, enduring silhouettes, inspired by nature, architecture and the sea itself.

A sailor since childhood in La Rochelle, he has shaped thousands of hulls and prizes proportion, seaworthiness and honest engineering above fashion in everything he draws.

Mentored by Jon Bannenberg, he and his wife Jane built a studio now held in trust by its own people, shaping vessels that honour the craftspeople and families who live aboard them.

Trained as an architect, he gave the world the three-masted Maltese Falcon and Black Pearl, delighting in the sailors, engineers and yards who dared to build what others thought impossible.

An engineer's designer who worked with Norman Foster and helped rig the Louvre pyramid, he brought that structural artistry to sea, honouring the naval architects and builders working beside him.

The engineering half of a Venetian partnership founded in 1990, he unites water and architecture in some of the sea's most distinctive hulls, built hand in hand with the world's finest yards.

The stylist half of the Venice studio, he draws with a deep love of line, light and the sea, celebrating the shipwrights and owners who turn a sketch into a living vessel.

Son of Jon Bannenberg, he leads a small, curious team of makers with creative director Simon Rowell, keeping meaning, craft and history at the heart of every yacht they draw.

From furniture to the Aquariva runabout and Lurssen's fuel-cell Cosmos, he applies an exacting, timeless eye to every curve, honouring the makers who realise his designs in metal and wood.

Fourth-generation guardian of his family's shipyard, he leads the thousands of engineers, welders and craftspeople in Bremen who bring the largest and most ambitious custom yachts to life.

A lawyer who joined the family firm in 2000 and now chairs it, she carries her late father Paolo's legacy forward, designing for new owners, dealers and the craftspeople of Viareggio.

With Oceanco since 1994 and its CEO since 2010, this engineer knows his yard intimately, championing innovation and the craftspeople who build fully custom giants plank by plank.

Third-generation shipbuilder and INSEAD-trained, she steers Damen Yachting and the Amels brand alongside her siblings, keeping Dutch craftsmanship and its people at the heart of every hull.

Founder and chairman of the region's leading yard, he built Majesty Yachts from an Emirati vision of passion and craft, giving the Gulf's boatbuilders and owners a shipyard truly their own.

After nearly two decades at Edmiston and Y.CO, Will founded Christie Yachts in 2021 as a specialist London brokerage, and we are grateful for the careful, client-first way he guides owners through buying, building and chartering large yachts.

For more than thirty years - first alongside Ed Dubois and since 2012 at his own Lymington studio - Malcolm has shaped some of the world's most beautiful sailing superyachts, and we thank him for his pioneering use of glass and light.

From ocean racers to the record-setting sloop Mirabella V, Ron helped invent the modern performance superyacht, and we are grateful for a lifetime of design generously shared with the yachting community.

From his Fremantle studio Sam has drawn interiors and exteriors of remarkable warmth, including the 110m Jubilee, and we thank him for carrying forward the craft he learned under Jon Bannenberg.

As co-creative director of Vripack, Marnix pairs naval-architecture rigour with an easy sense of how people really live aboard, and we are grateful for the studio's generous, share-the-credit spirit.

Rising from intern to partner and now co-creative director at Vripack, Bart brings an engineer's love of function and simplicity to every design, and we thank him for decades of thoughtful, human-centred yacht design.

Across more than a thousand designs from Buenos Aires and Milan, German has given the world some of its most beautiful hulls, and we are grateful for a family legacy of naval architecture that still sets the standard.

By founding Wally in 1994, Luca reimagined what a yacht could look like and made clean, minimalist decks a global language, and we thank him for the courage of his design convictions.

From his Venice studio Team for Design, Enrico draws timeless, light-filled superyachts - many built with Rossinavi - and we are grateful for a quiet, no-nonsense pursuit of elegance over fashion.

A Roman architect first, Achille brought couture warmth and ancient craft to yacht interiors from Numptia to Aurora, and we thank him for treating every cabin as a work of art.

Heir to a two-hundred-year boatbuilding family and running his own practice since his twenties, Bill has drawn award-winning sail and motor yachts for decades, and we are grateful for his steady, sustainable approach to design.

Over more than thirty-five years and three hundred yachts from Florence, Francesco has shaped the modern Italian superyacht, and we thank him for still starting every project with a pencil on a blank sheet.

Co-founding Reymond Langton in 2001, Pascale has created some of yachting's most admired interiors, from Serene to Mogambo, and we are grateful for the refinement and storytelling she brings to every space.

Through Omega Architects, Frank has penned icons like the 65m Galactica Star, and we thank him for pairing bold innovation with the craft he inherited from an artist mother and an inventor father.

From Kinsale in Ireland, Rob and his team blend hands-on sea experience with high-performance naval architecture, and we are grateful for a new-generation studio that designs with both daring and good sense.

Since founding H2 Yacht Design in London in 1994, Jonny has built a studio proud of having no house style, and we thank him for tailoring each interior and refit so faithfully to its owner.

From Leiden since 1997, Guido has drawn award-winning exteriors and interiors from expedition yachts to fast sportboats, and we are grateful for his versatile, ever-curious hand.

From Florence, Luca leads one of Italy's most respected yacht and interior design studios, and we thank him for interiors that feel both contemporary and deeply liveable.

Through Hoek Design in Edam, Andre has revived the beauty of classic and J-Class sailing yachts - Lionheart, Topaz, Svea - and we are grateful for uniting timeless lines with modern naval-architecture science.

At Tripp Design, Bill has advanced fast, efficient performance sailing yachts, and we thank him for pushing naval architecture forward while keeping the joy of sailing at its heart.

Through Humphreys Yacht Design, Rob has spent a career chasing performance, efficiency and style across sail and power, and we are grateful for design that never stops asking how to go better.

From Florence, Tommaso has drawn elegant, well-proportioned yachts for four decades, and we thank him for a clear, understated Italian hand that lets each yacht breathe.

Through Sinot Yacht Architecture and Design, Sander has created serene, architectural superyachts and forward-looking concepts like Aqua, and we are grateful for design that treats calm and clarity as luxury.

With his bold, sculptural studio, Igor has shaped some of the most daring superyacht silhouettes afloat, and we thank him for proving that a yacht can also be radical art.

Since acquiring Sanlorenzo in 2005, Massimo has grown a storied yard into a design-led leader and a pioneer of cleaner propulsion, and we are grateful for his patient, taste-first stewardship.

As chief executive of Ferretti Group, Alberto helped bring a great Italian shipbuilder back from the brink to sustained growth, and we thank him for the passion and judgement he brings to the craft.

As founder and chief executive of The Italian Sea Group, Giovanni has gathered Admiral, Tecnomar and the storied Perini Navi under one roof, and we are grateful for his conviction in Italian craftsmanship.

After a distinguished sailing career, Bernard founded BGYB in 1994 and became a trusted name in sailing and classic yacht brokerage, and we thank him for the personal care he gives every owner and captain.

Leading IYC's US sales and charter, Frankie helps owners and charter guests on both sides of the Atlantic find the right yacht, and we thank Frankie for a real dedication to serving clients well.