Introduction to Ambassador Lee, the bloke who keeps the line tight

First time Andrew meets him, Andrew’s a cadet with big eyes and sea legs; Lee’s the training manager who can turn chaos into a checklist before the kettle boils. Sharp suit, ship steel underneath. He speaks dock and boardroom, same vocabulary: get it done.

They’ve been at it for a decade plus—same trench, different angles. Paperwork, people work, the hard work nobody sees. When the world went sideways, they partnered on a straight-talk mental-health workshop: chairs in a circle, no fluff, just breath, sleep, watch, repeat. Lee shows up, sleeves rolled, names remembered. He’s lost friends to the long night, so he takes it personally, and he’s loud where it counts for the LGBTQ+ crew. No posters. Actual protection.

By day, he’s the Managing Director of Isle of Man Maritime—moving ships, standards and egos with quiet torque. He knows which lever shifts a timetable and which phone call makes a port behave. He’ll smile; the job will get done; you won’t see the gears turn.

As a NEUROS ambassador, Lee keeps the brief, brutal and elegant: heroes are the seafarers. Our job is connection. Cut the noise. Make sure the message lands—on a bridge at midnight, in a kitchen in Manila, when someone needs to hear “I’m safe.” Class over, circus. Signal when it matters. Silence when it doesn’t.