Designers & studios

Founder: Thomas Muhe, a lawyer by training who started the Bremen advertising agency Focus in 1993 with Abeking and Rasmussen as an early client, then refounded the practice as Focus Yacht Design in 2007 with managing director Henning Krohn; partner Christian Schafer is the studio's regular trade-press voice

Founders: Sergio Cutolo, Naples-born naval architect and marine engineer, previously close to ten years as Technical Director at Baglietto, and Silvia Himsolt, his wife and co-founder, born in Bavaria; studio founded in Ovada, Italy in 1995, initially engineering only, adding design in the early 2000s

Founded June 1986 as Nigel Gee and Associates Ltd, by Nigel Gee and John Bonafoux, with a team of three

Founded 2005 by Mike Fisher, in a converted London loft on the Thames, with Ngila Boyd

Founded 1993 by Doug Zurn, in Marblehead, Massachusetts

Career: exterior designer credited on 101-plus superyachts above 24 metres, per the BOATPro database, almost all for Ferretti Group brands

Trained in naval architecture and mechanical engineering, University of Genoa, graduated 1981

Florence, Italy

Florida, United States