Four veteran bankers anchor the new board of New York’s Eagle Bulk Shipping as the company emerges from a pre-packaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy restructuring.

Randee Day, Paul Leand, Bart Veldhuizen and Justin Knowles are all experienced financiers ready to provide a guiding hand to Sophocles Zoullas, who remains Eagle’s chief executive and chairman of the board.

Veldhuizen is probably best known for his stint running the combined $16bn shipping portfolio of Lloyds Bank and the Bank of Scotland from 2007 through to 2011 as head of shipping.