Jeffrey Pribor is sliding from one chair to the other in the banker-owner relationship but a chair may be the wrong metaphor to describe his first weeks on the job as the new head of shipping investment banking at New York’s Jefferies.

Perhaps airline seat might be the better image, as Pribor is clearly intent on firming up client relationships in his first weeks on the job, as he told TradeWinds in his first interview since moving over from New York tanker owner General Maritime Corp (Genmar).

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