Merijn de Waard

Merijn's passion for yachts came at a very early age while sailing on the Dutch lakes with a 10m (32.8ft) sail boat of friends. As soon as he came in touch with the world of superyachts he knew that his future would be in this industry.

Merijn studied Finance in The Netherlands. During his study he started his own company and launched www.Yacht-Images.com in February 2005. To strengthen his knowledge about the yacht industry Merijn choose the graduate on the issues of yacht registration and regulations for superyacht financer, Ciris Capital.

After graduating and the success of www.Yacht-Images.com Merijn started to work on a new project, an online magazine. After six months of developing SuperyachtTimes.com is now reality and as you will discover the site will be updated every day (Monday to Friday) with new yachts, companies and news.

Besides taking care for the day-to-day business of Yacht-Images.com, Merijn will also be the editor of SuperyachtTimes.com. He will focus mainly on the brokerage, refit and new construction section of the website, where his expertise is.

For any question, comments or new ideas you can always contact Merijn at merijn@superyachttimes.com

Maarten Janssen

Born in Holland, Maarten Janssen studied in Holland and the USA, and until recently lived in Antibes, France.

Maarten knows the yacht industry inside and out, and yachts have been his biggest passion for over two decades now . Maarten holds a degree in Marketing, as well as Mechanical Engineering.

In his professional background, Maarten has worked for Tyco Engineering, and in insurance and banking, for Holland's highest rated bank. Besides working for SuperyachtTimes.com, Maarten is currently also working closely with yachting Guru, Malcolm J. Wood, on the registration of yachts for the Yacht Register.

For SuperyachtTimes.com, Maarten will focus mainly on the charter section, as well as the marketing side of the website. You can contact him any day of the week at maarten@superyachttimes.com.

Maarten speaks Dutch, English, German and French.

Rigtje Damstra

Rigtje Damstra works part-time for SuperyachtTimes.com and as soon as she finishes her studies, she will join the SuperyachtTimes.com team on a daily basis.

Before starting her study Rigjte spend six months in the South of France, where she for the first time came in touch with the world of superyachts.

Rigtje is responsible for archiving our extensive library of thousands of yacht and company brochures, magazines and books. And she also uses her archiving skills for our photo library of more then 45.000 online yacht photographs.

If you have questions regarding our brochure or photo library or if you want to add your material to our library then please contact Rigtje at, rigtje@superyachttimes.com.

Ralph Liang

Ralph studied in interpretation and translation both in English and Chinese at the Chang Jun Christian University and he was born in Kaohsiung city, Taiwan.

Yachts have been Ralph's passion since he participated in a yachting project in Taiwan for two years.

Ralph has become the Asian representative & editor for Superyachttimes.com and will take care of the Asian market for SuperyachtTimes.com. He'll do his best to serve the customers and meet their needs.

For further information, please don't hesitate to contact Ralph at ralph@superyachttimes.com 

Luc Chen

Luc studied Tourism at the university. After working 2 years at the Grand Hotel in Taiwan, he went to France for his master degree.

When he studied in France, he travelled almost everywhere in Europe. When he came back to Taiwan, he unexpectedly joined a yacht building project. During this time at the shipyard he met Ralph and this was the beginning of their passion for yachts.

Luc was in charge of almost all the marble work onboard the yacht. Ranging from purchasing, manufacturing, designing, installing, supervising and quality-controlling.

As a result of being involved in this project, he had the chance of learning valuable information about the yacht industry. Together with Ralph, Luc will represent SuperyachtTimes.com in Asia.

For further information, please don't hesitate to contact Luc at luc@superyachttimes.com