Julian has served on board LPG, LNG tankers, and Floating Production Storage and Offloading facilities (FPSO), conducted tandem off-take, Conventional Buoy Mooring (CBM) and STS tanker pilotage and Load Master duties. He has held unrestricted pilot licenses for various Western Australian ports, has port management and development experience, and has held key marine operational roles for several major oil and gas projects in Western Australia.

Andrew commenced piloting in 1989 in the UK on the Medway after a sea career with Texaco/ China Navigation and P&O. After 7 years, he emigrated to Australia where he started piloting in Mackay/Hay Point in 1996/1997. He then transferred to Fremantle Pilots in the year 1997.

Andrew has piloting career of 34 years and counting.

With over 30 years’ experience within the Maritime industry, Brad is an innovative and highly motivated Marine Pilot and Master with extensive experience—providing safe and effective pilotage services on the West Coast of Australia, Master of commercial, passenger & fishing vessels, leading diverse crews.

Jon has been a Fremantle Pilot since 2004. Prior to that, he worked for Woodside for 10 years as a Master and Pilot out of Dampier.

David is a proud Freo local. He was born, raised and has lived in the beautiful city all his life. He comes from a long line of master mariners, including his father, who was a well-known marine pilot on the WA coast for many years.

Following a career at sea, he moved to the remote East Kimberley port of Wyndham with his wife and two young children as Harbour Master and Pilot. Two and a half years in the challenging, extreme tidal port, was an ideal grounding for a pilotage career. A stint in the, rather more family friendly port of Esperance followed, where he was exposed to pilotage of large Cape size bulk carriers.

The goal was always to return to his home port of Fremantle. And in 2006, he was fortunate to secure a position with Fremantle Pilots. After nearly two decades with this company, he still pinches himself that he was lucky enough to find his way back to Freo and pilot in this wonderfully varied and unique port. He knows his dad would be proud!

Outside of work, David's interests include, sailing, bike riding (both cycling and motor) and family. He also has, in recent years, completed arts degrees in History and Politics and a Master of Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame in Fremantle.

Matt is born and raised in Perth. He started working on boats in the area when he was just 14 years old, and have loved the work and lifestyle ever since. Throughout his seagoing career, he sailed on many different ships, including a tanker, a general cargo ship, a cruise ferry and 15 years in the Offshore Industry on a range of high-tech specialised vessels. He gained his Unlimited Master qualification at the age of 28 and then spent the following 6 years in that position before accepting a Trainee Pilot position in Esperence, WA. After this, he was very excited to join Fremantle Pilots in his home port.

David is a father of two energetic saltwater kids. After travelling and working at sea in his young adult life, he and his wife have settled back in Freo and are loving it. They love travelling up and down the coast between growing veggies and working on the house.

Kilian started his sea going career in Europe and worked on passenger ferries, roro ferries, VLCC's and offshore vessels, including DSV's and heavy construction vessels.

Matt was born and raised in Western Australia. He comes from a proud crayfishing family originally from Cervantes, where his passion for the ocean began. After finishing high school in Perth, he started his Cadetship in the oil and gas industry. After 11.5 years, he obtained his Master Mariners Unrestricted Licence. Not too long after, he began working as a marine pilot at the Useless Loop Salt Terminal, Shark Bay, Western Australia. This was a good port to begin his pilotage career as it is one of the few remaining ports that does not use tugs for berthing or unberthing. Utilising the anchor to manoeuvre the ship safely.

After working for 3 years as a marine pilot in Shark Bay, Matt was fortunate to be given an opportunity with Fremantle Pilots. Having a young family, it was perfect timing to bring them home.

During Matt's days off, he enjoys hanging with his wife and daughters, getting out for a fish, surfing when he can. He loves taking any opportunity to do a family trip along the WA coastline.

Stuart started his sea going career with one of the UK’s oldest shipping company’s Ocean Fleets being the very last intake of cadets for a once proud UK shipping company during which time sailed to Fremantle on a ship for the first time in March 1986.

He served on a wide variety of ship types including general cargo, OSV ro/ro before achieving his Master Class 1 licence in 1992 subsequently serving in senior ranks on VLCC, suezmax and product tankers.

After a final round of redundancies, he decided to move ashore to Qatar to begin a piloting career which has covered 5 ports, 26 years and 7000 movements. During this time, he has piloted all types of vessels from fishing boats, super yachts, submarines, LNG/C, ULCC’s and the world's largest cruise ships. One of his more unusual pilotages was to berth a semi sub drill rig on Fort hill wharf in Darwin.

Stuart has 38 years’ experience in maritime operations having previously performed the non-seagoing roles of marine representative, rig mover, operations manager, Harbour Master and was managing director of Fremantle Pilots from 2017 to 2023. Stuart is a keen advocate of professional standards and seafarer welfare having previously been a member of the Darwin port welfare committee, a representative for the UK marine pilots association, vice president of the Australasian Marine Pilots Institute and is currently a volunteer for Fremantle Ports Friends community outreach programme and is also an associate fellow of the Nautical Institute.

Stuart unrestricted pilot in the port of Fremantle and Company Secretary of the pilot company.

Theo van der Merwe has a great love for the ocean and the people that make a living around it. He carved out a career on the ocean since he was in high school. He worked in the Merchant Navy in 2005 and specialised in Offshore Oil and Gas Industry of Australia. He attained his Master Mariner status in 2014, which led him to his first command shortly after.

In 2018, Theo transitioned into the world of Pilotage, which allowed him to further his career on the ocean, with daily interaction to a variety of seafarers that he encounters and work with on the ships he attends.

In his spare time, Theo is either with his family or pursuing some sort of water sport, such surfing or spearfishing.

Jeremy's sea time was in the overseas merchant navy on worldwide trading tankers—oil, chemical, product and gas. He carried out his training at the Australian Maritime College in Tasmania, Fremantle College of TAFE and other numerous overseas training providers.

For Jeremy, the Port of Geraldton was a brilliant place to raise his young children and get familiar with the breeze. Moving to Fremantle Pilots in 2015 has been a wonderful challenge and experience for him but also exciting for his family. With a large scope of vessels, it makes an ever changing and interesting place to pilot.

Greg embarked on his maritime journey as a BHP Deck Cadet in 1980. Graduating from the inaugural class of the Australian Maritime College, he served as a Deck Officer with BHP Shipping before venturing ashore to pursue further education at Canberra University.

Using his additional degree qualifications, Greg assumed the role of Chief Mate aboard the Sail Training Ship Leeuwin II, overseeing the onboard education and youth development program. At the age of 31 years, his career trajectory took him further afield and he secured his first command on board the Outward Bound’s largest Tall Ship "Ji Fung" based in Hong Kong. This experience included, navigating the complex waters of Southeast Asia and Japan, multiple daily berthings and manoeuvring the vessel in very narrow uncharted water ways in remote parts of the Philippines and Borneo. This is where he said he developed a deep passion for ship handling and the challenge of pilotage.

Returning to Fremantle many years later, Greg Tonnison took on the role of CEO of the Sail Training Ship Leeuwin II while periodically serving as Master aboard the vessel. In the early 2000’s, Greg transitioned to a career in piloting, beginning in Esperance, handling ‘Cape’ size vessels up to 300 meters in length. Ultimately, he returned to his home port of Fremantle and commenced a position with Fremantle Pilots. During his time at Fremantle Pilots, he has also served as Managing Director and on the Executive for a lengthy period. Greg's journey embodies a lifelong commitment to the sea, ship handling and the local Fremantle maritime industry. In his spare time, Greg is a keen, competitive sailor on Flying Fifteen dinghies.

Craig Rappeport is a Chartered Accountant of 10 years and the Director of The Outsource Group. He has passion for process improvement, and he is a self-confessed Excel nerd.

In his spare time, Craig likes to spend time working on his cars or driving them on the racetrack.

Daniel is interested in the ocean and shipping. Many years ago, he used to drive crew members between the ships and the Airport. He strives to keep a great work-home life balance.

Pauline spent most of her career as a primary school or special needs teacher before jumping ship in November 2017. She came on board with Fremantle Pilots in a very different role as an Admin and Finance Officer. She is now working with 15 marine pilots instead of a class of young children!

Sally works as a consultant for Fremantle Pilots and has fulfilled the role of Quality Management Representative since 2016. She supports the Managing Director in managing the integrated management system, incident reporting and risk management. Sally also conducts the periodical internal audits and investigations. She used to work at sea and completed her Mates Masters in 2009. She now manages her own business in marine compliance, working predominantly in the oil and gas sectors and ports and pilotage. She is also an OVID inspector. Sally lives in Busselton and tries to barrack for the West Coast Eagles.

Prior to working with Fremantle Pilots, Julie worked in the Racing and Electrical industries.