Martin Crawford-Brunt will face the challenge of convincing owners and charterers of the robustness of big data predictive analytics ship safety vetting tool Qi as he takes over as chief executive of RightShip.

The appointment of Crawford-Brunt, following the retirement of long-serving Warwick Norman, comes after a successful career at DNV GL where he principally worked in the London outpost and was viewed as one of the up and coming executives at the Norwegian classification society.