Sunrise Yachts has appointed Fabien Roché as their new Chief Operating Officer. Roché has decades of experience in the maritime industry, having started sailing at age 3 and obtaining his captain's license in 1987. Most recently, he managed and captained large yachts and cruise ships. In his new role, Roché will oversee Sunrise Yachts' operations and help maximize growth as the shipyard takes on more projects and employees.

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NEWS RELEASE
July 29, 2013
Captain Fabien Roché joins Sunrise Yachts to head operations
The Antalya-based yacht builder is pleased to announce the appointment of Fabien Roché as Chief Operating
Officer.
ANTALYA, TURKEY – Following the signing of a string of large yacht projects, Sunrise Yachts is strengthening its
management structure to take into account the shipyard’s hugely increased workload and workforce, which has now
reached 175 staff and 350 permanent sub-contractors.
Guillaume Roché, Sunrise Yachts’ CEO, stated: “Bringing in a person of Capt. Fabien Roché’s calibre is a great addition
to a shipyard that prides itself in having some of its key management with sea experience. Capt. Roché’s long past in
skippering and managing cruise ships and megayachts will be an important asset to our company that will immediately
benefit our clients’ projects.”
Fabien started his 'career' at sea at the tender age of three, living on the family sailboat and taking correspondence
courses to go through his schooling. The world's oceans soon became his playground: from the Mediterranean to the
Atlantic and the Caribbean Sea all before the age of ten. Upon completing his A-levels in the U.K., Fabien passed his
first Commercial Maritime license in 1987, followed by a higher Captain’s certificate and thence skippered his first
charter yacht at age 19.
He subsequently worked on charter and private yachts in the Mediterranean and Caribbean until the early 1990s and
then resumed his studies at the Merchant Marine Academy in Nantes, France, obtaining his Master's license in 1996.
Fabien has built much of his maritime skills on yachts, most recently M/Y “Indian Empress” and M/Y “Felicita West”, as
well as sail and power cruise ships.
His years of experience include expedition yachting and cruising all over the world, including Antarctica and the Arctic,
the Amazon and Orinoco rivers, Great Lakes, Caribbean, Baltic Sea, North & Western Europe, Mediterranean, Red Sea,
Indian Ocean, Central and South America, South-East Asia, and more.
Fabien's hobbies include photography, travelling, geography, cartography, diving, sailing, hiking, skiing, swimming,
rock climbing, IT, vintage wines, reading, music, cinema and languages.
Fabien states: “I am thrilled to be given the opportunity to put to use my lifelong experience of the sea and yachting –
and especially that as Captain of large yachts & luxury cruise ships along with two years of shoreside yacht management
– to provide overall direction and guidance to the operational activities of the shipyard. I intend to help maximise
growth and profitability, as well as contribute my captain’s perspective to the shipyard’s projects”.
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Captain Fabien Roché
Contact :
Mobile: +90 530 764 3117
E-mail: froche@sunriseyachts.com
About Sunrise Yachts:
Founded in 2006 by German businessman and yachtsman Herbert P. Baum and British-French yacht-builder Guillaume
Roché, Sunrise Yachts in based in the Free Zone of Antalya, Turkey. Combining international design, engineering and
management with Turkey’s skilled and competitive workforce, Sunrise Yachts offers quality yacht construction and refit
solutions to the international market. Its state-of-art facilities accommodate projects up to 70m in length and 1,500-ton
displacement. After delivering the 45m “Africa” (design Paolo Scanu with interiors by Franck Darnet) in 2009, the company
is currently building a 34m explorer, a new 45m as well as two 63m and one 57m diesel-electric motor yachts (all three
designed by Espen Øino International).
Sunrise Yachts: www.sunriseyachts.com
and our new iPad App (in English, Russian and Chinese)
More information:
Jean-Claude Carme
VP, Sales & Marketing, Sunrise Yachts
E-Mail: jc@sunriseyachts.com
Tel. +33 6 8998 8983
www.sunriseyachts.com