Yves Kallina

Yves Kallina began his ship finance career in 2003 as a relationship manager at Deutsche Schiffsbank, becoming team head in 2009 with responsibility for clients in Western Europe and North America. He went on to lead the loan structuring and syndication team formed when the ship finance activities of Commerzbank, Dresdner Bank and Deutsche Schiffsbank were merged, and later worked as a senior specialist in Capital Markets Management during Commerzbank's wind-down of its ship finance portfolio.

He joined Hamburg Commercial Bank in 2014, where as of 2020 he was Senior Vice President, Global Sales & Syndicate. He holds a business administration degree from Bankakademie Frankfurt and a Certified Expert in Sustainable Finance qualification from Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.

He spoke as a panellist at seven Mare Forum events between 2021 and 2023, including three editions of Mare Forum Oslo, two editions of Mare Forum Ship Finance, and two sessions on the New EU Taxonomy.