Leadership & Advisory
The people helping ZEEV move electric marine deployment from concept to execution.
ZEEV combines commercial direction, Maldives market development, local marine support, naval architecture, propulsion knowledge, and marine energy advisory to support serious electric vessel opportunities.
Route first. Technical discipline. Local execution.
Leadership
Practical electric marine deployment in the Maldives needs more than a boat supplier.
Electric vessel adoption requires commercial judgement, route assessment, vessel design awareness, charging strategy, local operating knowledge, and the discipline to test each opportunity before capital is committed.
ZEEV’s leadership and advisory structure is built to bring those perspectives together around one practical question: can this route work?
Leadership Team
Commercial direction, Maldives market development, and local marine support.
ZEEV’s leadership team connects international commercial thinking with local marine operating knowledge and Maldives-based deployment support.
Mark Hulyer
Senior Partner
UK Based
Mark brings international commercial direction to ZEEV, helping shape partner relationships, investment conversations, and the business structures needed to move electric marine projects from interest to serious deployment.
Unais Luthfy
Business Development Manager
Maldives Based
Unais leads Maldives market development for ZEEV, connecting resort operations, route opportunities, marine service realities, customer discussions, and local execution needs into a clear deployment pathway.
Ismail Shareef
Strategic Partner
Maldives Based
Shareef strengthens ZEEV’s local marine capability through boatbuilding knowledge, industry relationships, vessel access, customer insight, and practical support for Maldives-based electric vessel opportunities.
Technical & Strategic Advisory
Advisory support for the decisions that determine whether electric deployment can work.
Electric marine deployment depends on more than ambition. Each opportunity must be tested across vessel platform, hull suitability, propulsion, batteries, charging, shore power, route duty, finance structure, operating environment, and long-term service support.
ZEEV works with advisors who bring specialist perspective into those decisions before customers are pushed toward a vessel.
Confirmed Advisors
Specialist advisory for propulsion, vessel design, and marine energy infrastructure.
These advisory areas are deliberately balanced. Propulsion, hull design, and charging infrastructure must all work together for a route-led electric vessel project to succeed.
Ricky Cole
Technical Advisor — Electric Propulsion
Indonesia / UK Based
Rick supports ZEEV with electric propulsion insight, helping assess motor selection, battery systems, energy requirements, vessel suitability, conversion logic, and the practical limits of electric operation.
Paul Bury
Naval Architecture Advisor — Vessel Design & Conversion Feasibility
Australia / Thailand Based
Paul supports ZEEV with naval architecture perspective, helping evaluate hull form, stability, weight distribution, passenger layout, performance expectations, conversion feasibility, and build practicality.
Eugene Bari
Marine Energy Advisor — Charging & Shore Power Infrastructure
UK Based
Eugene supports ZEEV with marine energy and infrastructure perspective, helping assess charging strategy, shore power readiness, load planning, charger selection, grid interface, and energy storage options.
Advisory involvement may vary by project, route, technical requirement, customer need, and deployment stage.
Why This Team Matters
The right electric vessel decision is not made from a catalogue.
Maldives operators need more than a product recommendation. They need to know whether electric deployment makes sense for their route, cost structure, guest experience, charging window, service reality, and long-term business case.
ZEEV’s value is in bringing the right questions together before the wrong investment is made.
Route discipline
Every serious opportunity starts with distance, speed, load, frequency, sea exposure, charging access, and reserve planning.
Commercial logic
Electric deployment must be tested against operating cost, finance structure, utilisation, guest value, and business risk.
Technical judgement
Vessel design, propulsion, battery capacity, charging, shore power, and service support must work as one system.
Local reality
Maldives heat, saltwater, harbour access, crew routine, guest expectations, and maintenance realities cannot be ignored.
Local Deployment Support
Electric vessels must fit the Maldives operating environment.
A vessel that works on paper still needs to work in real Maldivian conditions: heat, saltwater, passenger expectations, route exposure, charging access, maintenance reality, crew routines, resort operations, and service response.
ZEEV’s local role is to make sure each opportunity is assessed against the actual operating environment, not only against brochure specifications.
This is especially important for resort transfers, public routes, excursion vessels, dive operations, island logistics, and private marine experiences.
Start With One Route
Bring us the route, operation, or opportunity.
ZEEV can help assess whether electric vessel deployment is practical for a specific Maldives route, resort transfer, excursion operation, public transport service, or island marine use case.
The right conversation starts with the real operating requirement.