Meet the team
At Starclass Yacht Transport, we take pride not only in the remarkable vessels and services we provide but also in the motivated individuals who make excellent yacht transport possible. Get to know the passionate professionals who make every transport a success with unwavering commitment and expertise.
Get to know our friendly team one by one. They will take care of you and your yacht with great commitment and expertise.
Jan te Siepe
Founder and directorStarting Yacht transport in the Netherlands in 1987 te Siepe decided to move to Monaco in 2001 to establish his new company, Starclass Yacht Transport. His goal was to make yacht transport a professional and reliable business model, in an industry were other shipowners merely use yachts to fill up the deck at their convenience as icing on the cake.
Dovile Bizzari
Office directorAfter having a career at sea as stewardess on cruise liners she studied commercial shipping in Nice. She opened her own agency more than 10 years ago. She provides us with commercial and financial services and is responsible for all sales.
Maaike te Siepe
After sales, administration and documentationAfter her graduation in 2020 for Office Manager at the university of Windesheim, she started her own administration consultancy MTS Business Support and assists Starclass with her service. Her tasks are after sales including custom clearance, cargo papers and administration.
Steyn van Driessel
Sales and operations the NetherlandsSteyn is a semi professional regatta sailor who assists us as owner of Steyn Yachting Services with developing the yacht transport market. There is a big chance that you will meet him when visiting your yard, at a marina or at boat shows. Steyn is our contact person in the Dutch ports where we load and offload. He is also a helping hand during the port operations as assistant of the loadmaster.
Roy Eppenga
Freelance load masterLoadmaster Roy is active with his Yacht service company. We are happy he finds time to assist us with his skills to safely load and offload yachts and other floating materials that we transport. Roy provides his services to us for over twelve years.
Charles Koek
Freelance load masterLoadmaster Charles is owner of a yacht repair service and in summertime he is skipper on a classic commercial sailing yacht.
Between all that we sent him to Deo Volente or Eemslift Hendrika to supervise loading and offloading off yachts is done safely.
Charles started providing his services to us about nine years ago.