Capt. Ajeet Pal
Captain · Synergy Marine
Navigation fundamentals · Company interview panels
Commands vessels with Synergy Marine. Has sat on cadet selection panels and coaches students on what a Master is really listening for in an interview.
Meet our mentors
Learn from people who have actually sailed.
Not career counsellors who have read about ships. Serving and ex-serving Captains, Chief Engineers and Officers who have stood the watches, run the engine rooms and sat on the interview panels you are about to face.
Capt. Siddharth Saxena
Founder & Program Director
The founder
From Cadet to Captain. Over 25 years at sea.
Capt. Siddharth Saxena began exactly where you are now — a student with a plan to go to sea and very little reliable information about how. Over the next 25 years he worked his way from Deck Cadet to attaining Captain's License, sailed on vessels across the world's major trade routes.
He has sailed Car Carriers, Bulk Carriers, Ro-Ro ships, Reefers and Container vessels with leading companies including Wilhelmsen, Anglo-Eastern, Crowley, Fleet Management and Amer Shipping. That means hands-on experience in ship operations, crew leadership, dry docks, safety management and the kind of real maritime decision-making that no textbook covers.
He also served as Faculty and Course Coordinator at a DG Approved Maritime Training Institute, where he mentored and trained hundreds of students — and where he first saw, at scale, how much talent gets lost to bad guidance.
25+
Years at sea
5
Vessel types experience
100+
Students mentored
Master
Certificate of Competency
10+
Mentors
Captains & Officers
25+
Years at sea
Founder maritime experience
5
Master Mariners
Captains on the mentor panel
2
Ex-students
Now officers, now mentors
Deck department
Navigation, cargo and command.
Masters and Deck Officers who run the ship — and who prepare you for the Deck route, its strict eyesight standard and the interviews that follow.
Capt. Shiv Prasad
Captain · Eastern Pacific Shipping (EPS)
Life onboard · Watchkeeping · Career planning
Sails with Eastern Pacific Shipping. Takes the sessions that answer the questions students are too shy to ask about routine, discipline and contracts at sea.
Capt. Abhimanyu Ambatt
Captain · V.Ships
Sponsorship strategy · Situational judgement
Sails with V.Ships. Guides students through company-by-company sponsorship processes and the situational questions that separate two similar candidates.
Capt. Sandesh Kadam
Captain · Maersk
Global fleet operations · Deck cadet readiness
Sails with Maersk. Prepares students for what actually happens in the first ninety days onboard as a Deck Cadet.
Capt. Nagender Nagar
Captain · Anglo-Eastern
Ship operations · Cadet mentoring
Sails with Anglo-Eastern. Mentors students on shipboard routine, watchkeeping discipline and what a company expects from a cadet on day one.
Prabhjot Singh
2nd Officer · Fleet Management
IMU CET strategy · Mock interview panel
Second Officer with Fleet Management. Runs mock interview panels and coaches students on paper strategy for IMU CET.
Ex-studentAyush Saha
3rd Officer · Fleet Management
Student-to-officer journey · Peer mentoring
Went through this exact preparation himself, cleared his selection and now sails as a Third Officer with Fleet Management. Mentors the students who are where he was three years ago.
Ex-studentMandeep Singh
3rd Officer · Amer Shipping
Cadet life · Documentation & joining
Former student, now a Third Officer with Amer Shipping. Walks new students through documentation, medicals and the practical side of joining a ship.
Engine department
Machinery, systems and marine engineering.
Chief and Second Engineers who explain the engine side properly — including why spectacle-wearers still have a full officer career available to them.
Valvin Maksym
Chief Engineer · Amer Shipping
Engine room systems · Marine engineering pathway
Chief Engineer with Amer Shipping. Explains the engine side of the industry to students choosing between the Deck and Engine departments.
Sushant Rajput
2nd Engineer · Fleet Management
Physics & technical fundamentals
Second Engineer with Fleet Management. Takes the technical fundamentals sessions and the engineering-stream interview practice.
Bhawani Mishra
2nd Engineer · AG Maritime
Marine engineering entry · GME route
Second Engineer with AG Maritime. Advises engineering-stream students on B.Tech Marine, GME and the routes available after a degree.
They’ll mentor and groom you for the merchant navy career.
A ₹150 counselling session puts you in a one-to-one conversation with an experienced officer — with your parents present if you want them there.