Irene Notias

Irene Notias is Founder and Director of PROJECT CONNECT, a non-profit she established during Greece's 2010–2015 youth unemployment crisis to connect shipping students and graduates with employment opportunities. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, majoring in International Management with minors in Marketing and Political Science, from Pace University in Manhattan.

She founded and ran Prime's Bunkersplus Services as a bunker broker for over 20 years, working with major Greek and American shipping companies from 2002, and is now Country Manager at SING FUELS Hellas, which acquired the company in 2022. She earlier spent 16 years in executive administrative roles at a New York shipping firm, IBM and Nichiman America, and has served as Vice President of WISTA.

She has spoken at six Mare Forum events between 2018 and 2025, including the 2nd and 3rd Mare Forum Mykonos and the 22nd and 23rd Mare Forum Greece.