Speakers

Alexandros Trimis 

Founder and CEO of Dopios

Categories:
E-Tourism
Related links:
https://www.crunchbase.com/person/alex-trimis

“…Via Dopios platform Students, retirees, professionals and more show their cities, create new connections, have fun and make extra income”*

Alexandros is an entrepreneur at heart, with the mindset of an engineer and the creativity of a kinder gardener. In business terms, he is consider a Product Story teller, Designer and Manager as well as a Business Strategist and start-up enthusiast.

Professional background: His passion for learning, design and creative problem solving has moved him in different fields such as Internet, Sofhware applications, Arts, Structural Engineering, Consumer Products, Consulting from where he gained rich and interconnected skills and experiences. He has worked with various consumer web companies like Survey Monkey and oDesk. Dopios is a platform that empowers individuals to connect with others who match their travel style for a personalized travel experience. He’s also the co-Founder & CEO of Welcome Pickups, a company that redefines the way people travel by offering the most personalized and wholesome travel experience from the moment they start planning to the moment they return home.

Educational experience:  He is an Engineering Graduate from the University of Stratford

Country of origin: Greece

Significant achievements: Two of Dopios priorities are personalization and authentic travelling experience and because of that it manages to count today more than 350 dopios experiences in Athens.

Reload factor:  Alexandros put into practice a globally oriented idea by starting from Athens. In that way he proved the effectiveness of implementing a globally oriented innovative idea which has a connection with Greece. Dopios is a platform which generates income for the locals and empower tourism in Greece.

Angelos Nastos – Megas 

Zoottle’ UK Team Leader

Categories:
E-Commerce, Entrepreuneurship, Technology, Sales, Management
Related links:
http://www.salessystemcrm.com/

Angelos is the Zoottle’UK Team Leader

Professional background: Upon graduating with distinction he was hired by Apple where he still works as a Project Coordinator & Functional Analyst. Since September 2013 he has also been part of the extended Zoottle Team as a UK Team Leader focusing on the best possible launch and expansion. Zoottle helps brands connect digitally with all those who use their wi-fi service. That allows company know its customers by accessing Facebook data. In that way Zoottle offers real-time demographics about people who use your wi-fi.

Educational experience:  His love for technology and computers took him to Athens to study in the Digital Systems department of University of Piraeus on a scholarship. Shortly after finishing his undergraduate studies and army obligations he moved to London to pursue a Master’s Degree in Project Management, Finance and Risk in City University, London.

Country of origin: Angelos Nastos-Megas was born and raised in Ioannina, Greece

Reload factor:  Angelos presented his entrepreneurial story at MeeetU@Reload in December of 20013 in order to educate young aspiring entrepreneurs about business, commerce and entrepreneurship.

Antonis Katepodis 

Counsellor for Economic and Commercial Affairs

Categories:
Politics, Diplomacy, Public Administration
Related links:
http://www.mfa.gr/uk/en/the-embassy/sections/economic-and-commercial-affairs.html

Antonis holds the position of the Head of the Economic and Commercial Section of the Embassy of Greece in London.

Professional background: Since 1992 has served at the Economic and Commercial Section of the Embassies of Greece in Bucharest and Vienna as well as in various positions at the central administration of the Ministry of National Economy and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Republic.

Educational Background:  He holds a BSc in Political Science and Public Administration from the University of Athens and is a Graduate of the National School of Public Administration (Economic and Commercial Affairs Section).

Country of origin: Antonis Katepodis was born in Piraeus, Greece

Apostolos Apostolakis

Co-founder at e-shop.gr, e-food.gr & Doctoranytime.gr

Advisor at Taxibeat

Founding Member at Openfund I. 

Categories:
E-Commerce, Entrepreuneurship, Technology
Related links:
https://taxibeat.com/
http://www.e-shop.gr/
https://www.e-food.gr/
http://www.doctoranytime.gr/

Apostolos is an entrepreneur in the internet/technology sector who started as an entrepreneur right after graduating with 2 friends when he cofounded e-shop.gr the first computer e-tailer in Greece

Professional background: In 2009, looking for more challenges, he joined Openfund to help create the first seed investing fund in Southeastern Europe. Openfund supported innovative startups like Taxibeat.com that have strong international potential. Taxibeat in particular, where Apostolos is also an advisor and investor, is transforming the way people get a taxi around the globe with the company having already presence in Brazil, France and Mexico.

In 2011 Apostolos along with his partners from e-shop.gr and other friends cofounded e-food.gr the largest online food delivery aggregator in Greece.  E-food.gr is present in 10 citis all over Greece and has more than 1000 restaurants on its platform.

Finally In 2012 he cofounded doctoranytime.gr the web service that allows you to find see extensive information and book an appointment online with a doctor.

He’s also the co-Founder & partner at Venture Friends – They look for founders who work on problem-solving technology products and aspire to create big international companies

Educational experience:  He graduated from National Technical University in Athens. In 2000 he went to the US to get the basics right, and after graduating from Columbia Business School in 2002 then spent two valuable years with Boston Consulting Group.

Significant achievements: In 2004 he rejoined e-shop.gr, and helped the company become the leader in e-commerce in Greece. E-shop.gr reached a turnover of more than 100 million euros with 1 million unique visitors per month. Doctoranytime within a year has helped more than 10,000 people find the right doctor for them.

Reload factor: Apostolos presented his entrepreneurial story at MeeetU@Reload in December of 2013 in order to contributing his own knowledge and offering support to aspiring entrepreneurs.  He shared a check list with the audience in order to educate them about how they can create a start-up. Nowadays Taxi beat is operating effectively in various countries and in that way it generates new job positions.

*(Apostolos Apostolakis was one of our Inspiring speakers on our last MeetUatReload at Imperial College London. You can find below his presentation about the Entrepreneurship in Greece and some suggestions and tips about how to startup.)

Christina Achtypi & Nikolas Travasaros

Partners at DiverCity

Categories:
Architecture

Related links:
http://www.divercityarchitects.com/

“The most well-known international projects also refer to Athens like Made in Athens, Rethink Athens, Remap and others”*

Christina is a Project Architect, she plays a central role in the design process as well as managing projects from initial design to completion of construction.

Professional background: She joined Diversity in 2005 and worked at this studio in Athens until she moved to London in 2007.

Educational background: She studied architecture at the National Technical University of Athens (2005) and received a Master of Architecture from the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL (2009).

Country of origin: She was born in Greece and she is based in Athens and London.

Significant achievements: In 2008, she was co-curator of ‘Athens by Sound’, the national participation of Greece at the 11th International Venice Biennale of Architecture, ‘Out there – Architecture Beyond Building’. Her projects were also exhibited at the 4th European Biennale of Landscape Architecture in Barcelona (2006) and the 1st Biennale of Architecture in Rotterdam (2003).

Awards & Honors: Christina has taken part in international architectural competitions (one 2nd prize, one distinction).

Reload factor: Christina and Nikolas try to put into practice an innovative idea of seeing the archipelagos as a place for living. This idea is closely related with entrepreneurship and social innovation aiming to contribute directly to the Greek society by leading to job creation.

Click here to watch Christina and Nikolas’ talk at Reload Greece.

Christina Panteleimonitis Mavrantoni

Founder ‘Ta Mylelia’ LTD

Categories:
Retail, E-Commerce

Related links:
http://www.mylelia.gr/

“…Todays producers need to put forward products that are rooted in tradition enough so that the consumer feels an emotional connection with the product and innovative enough so that the consumer gets excited to it.”*

Christina is a lover of the traditions of her country, she renovated a 305 year watermill and founded ‘Ta Mylelia’ LTD.  

Professional background: a company to promote agro tourism and to search for old Greek culinary recipes.  Since then 35000 children with their schools and universities have visited the mill on Lesvos Island, as well as her second watermill in the Peloponnese. To sponsor this project, she started the production of a large variety of 100% natural products, having as main product handmade pasta kneaded with the wheat milled between millstones.  

Educational background:  Graduated from the Pierce College – The American of Greece and studied at the Department of Economics, Thessaloniki Law School. 

Country of origin: Born in Athens

Significant achievements: All those years, more than 30 articles, have been written by journalists throughout Greece and from countries like the UK, USA, Israel, the Netherlands and Germany about the ‘Ta Mylelia’ story and products.

Awards & Honors: Her products have won 15 prizes and are sold in 8 countries.

Reload factor: Christina proved how the societies could benefit when individuals embrace entrepreneurial principles, in this case the renovation of a 305 year watermill, and take the initiative to resolve the challenges she face by continuously developing globally oriented innovative products in agricultural sector. In that way Christina benefits Greek society both financially and socially by underlying the importance of supporting Greece by acting as a global citizen.

Watch Christina Panteleimonitis at the RG conference.

Christina Tsakona

International startup lawyer

Categories:
Law, Entrepreneurship

Christina is an international startup lawyer with professional experience in the US, Greece and Germany. Christina is a licensed attorney in Greece and certified as a Foreign Legal Consultant with the State Bar of California.

Professional background: The past four years, she has been working in San Francisco, specializing on setting up international startups in the US and Greece. Christina has assisted and consulted over 30 international startups. She has also contributed to the creation the Greek Seed Funding Group in California.

Educational experience:  She holds a Bachelor’s in law from University of Athens, Greece and a Master’s in law degree from University of California, Berkeley. She speaks Greek, English, French and German.

Country of origin: Greece

Reload factor: Christina supported Greek community by engaging, inspiring, and educating aspiring young entrepreneurs about the creation of new enterprises internationally.

Costantinos Christou 

Co-founder of Avocarrot

Categories:
E-Commerce, Entrepreuneurship, Technology

Related links:
http://www.avocarrot.com/

Constantinos is an entrepreneur in the internet/technology sector who started as an entrepreneur right after graduating. He is a co-founder of Avocarrot which helps mobile app developers of all kinds to making money through native advertising.

Professional background: Avocarrot, is a 1 million dollar startup invested by a syndicate of a multibillion dollar companies like Unilever and Bauer media.

Educational experience:  Costantinos has just graduated from Imperial College London in MEng, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Country of Origin: Constantinos is a Cypriot young entrepreuner

Significant achievements: In almost two years, Avocarrot’s portfolio is consisted of some of the most significant clients in the world, such as Unilever, Pepsi and Starbucks. Those companies choose Avocarrot in order to advertise their products and services in an alternative way.

Reload factor: Avocarrot start up is a globally oriented innovative idea which has a connection with Cyprus. Constantinos is an inspiring entrepreneurial role model who have been featured at MeeetU@Reload in December of 20013 providing his story. He proved that young generation has a powerful role to play in spreading entrepreneurial know how to their peers.

Costas Voyatzis

Editor in Chief of Yatzer.com

Categories:
Design, Manufacturing, Trend Forecasting, Art, Fashion, Travel, Interiors

Related links:
http://yatzer.com/

“…You have to be authentic to your audience to your advertisers to your team, to your vision, to yourself and most of all you have to be authentic to your dream. Because your dream job does not exist. You must create it.”*

Costas Voyatzi’s role as stylist and trend forecaster, Costas began developing relationships with many international designers and manufacturers, and was soon recognized as a unique eye when it came to the new and the innovative. As more of the design community sought to share his design finds, Costas decided that he needed a platform to combine his love for graphic design, photography and architecture.

Professional background: In the search for a career to suit his immense curiosity and thirst for design knowledge, Costas worked for seven years at Greece’s leading interior design magazines. Yatzer.com was launched in 2007, and his vision of creating a single, high quality source of design information was realized.

Educational experience:  After dabbling in an early academic career in Meteorology at the Physics University of Athens, his passion for design prevailed, and he switched his major to Interior Design.

Country of origin: Costas Voyatzis [{Vo}Yatzer] was born in Athens

Significant achievements: In April 2011, Costas Voyatzis was named one of the 100 most influential people in the design industry by French heavyweight Architectural Digest.

Reload factor: Costas is a successful entrepreneurial role model who have been featured at Reload Greece conference in 2012. He shared with young aspiring entrepreneurs what inspired him and how he grew his venture. He also encouraged the audience to develop their own entrepreneurial ideas based in Greece and oriented globally.  

Watch Costas Voyatzis at the RG event/conference.

Demetri Chriss 

Member of the Board of Directors / Chief Operating Officer of Tuvunu S.A.

Categories:
Media, Business development

Related links:
http://www.tuvunu.com/en

Demetri Chriss is producer and exporter of all-natural beverages and condiments headquartered in Thrace.

Professional background: He has held managerial positions in organizations large and small, including Macedonian Thrace Brewery SA and the Express Kalofolias Media Group, where he served as Director of Business Development, and Senior Development Officer-North America of Anatolia College. Over the past two decades, Demetri has worked as a contributing editor and columnist for publications in Greece and the US such as Kathimerini, The National Herald of New York, Makedonia Daily, Athens News, Athens Insider and Paratiritis of Thrace. He has also appeared as a guest commentator on CNN International and BloombergHT TV in Turkey.

In addition to his media experience, Demetri served as publications editor for PricewaterhouseCoopers Prague and foreign relations adviser for the Prefecture of Thessaloniki.

Educational experience: Demetri holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Sarah Lawrence College in New York, with a concentration in European History and International Relations.

Country of origin: Greece

Reload factor: Demetri introduced a new product which called “TUVUNU”. This initiative based on the idea of making cool tea by using various Greek plants (such as siderites). He started planting tea upon the mountains of Thrace, in Pomak villages, where the indigenous people are Muslims. Demetri decided to cooperate with those villages population, gaining their trust, generating new job positions. He managed making an impact on local society by producing locally and selling globally.

Peter Economides 

Brand Strategist / Founder/CEO of Felix BNI Strategy

Categories:
Branding

Related links:
http://www.felixbni.com/Audi-A2-Imagination.html

“…Greece as the Apple of the Mediterranean? It’s a crazy idea. In fact, it’s an idea that is just about crazy enough to succeed”*

Peter Economides Peter has lived on four continents doing work that has impacted brands and consumers almost everywhere. Peter’s work is focused on change – on the strategic responses to shifting culture, consumer habits and behavior, and the challenges of regional and global expansion.

Professional background: Owner and founder of Felix BNI based in Athens, Peter Former EVP/WW Director of Client Service at McCann Erickson Worldwide, Head of Global Clients at TBWA\Worldwide. Peter is a Board Director Make-A-Wish Foundation International

Educational experience: University of Cape Town – South Africa

Country of origin: Born to Greek parents in South Africa. Economides has also lived in Johannesburg, Hong Kong, Mexico city and New York

Significant achievements: He has managed and grown leading ad agencies as CEO/President in Greece, Mexico and the United States. At McCann Erickson Worldwide he was responsible for the global management of the $1.8 billion Coca-Cola advertising account. At TBWA\Worldwide he was responsible for the global management structuring and roll out of the “Think Different” campaign following the return of Steve Jobs to Apple

Awards & Honors: His ideas won prizes in Cannes

Reload factor: He was one of the first professionals who introduced the idea of rebranding Greece. He supports that it’s time to build new elements of DNA for Greece by inspiring educating and encouraging young people to put into practice their own entrepreneurial ideas.

Eleftheria Zourou

Co-founder and General Manager of Doctoranytime.gr

Categories:
E-Commerce, Entrepreuneurship, Technology

Related links:
http://www.doctoranytime.gr/

Eleftheria is an entrepreneur in the internet/technology sector.

Professional background: Eleftheria ‘s first interaction with a “customer” was in the small toy shop of her grandfather, where she understood early enough that sales increase when you sell what consumer needs. She worked to ΔΟΛ, where she did marketing for women magazines and having acquired interesting experience from the media world she moved to L’Oréal.

Educational experience:  She studied Business administration and marketing in University of Piraeus and started her career in Procter and Gamble, where she learned that a good marketer should be in touch with the consumer and get in his shoes, a more formal way to put what she had early enough understood.

Significant achievements: Doctoranytime within a year has helped more than 10,000 people find the right doctor for them.

Reload factor: DOCTORANYTIME.GR is the idea that brings her closer to what she dreamt for: an easier, faster and more patient friendly access to the Greek healthcare system. “Easier access to health system for everyone!” is her moto.

In that way Eleftheria proves that the individuals who act entrepreneurially by taking the initiative to resolve the challenges that their community faces benefit their own society by contributing their own expertise in something that matters.

Paul Evmorfidis 

Founder of Coco – Matt

Related links:
http://www.coco-mat.com/?i=coco_int.en

“…With prudence, moderation and grounded self-confidence we went through all these years and with the same “materials” we carry on. It’s in our nature.” *

Paul Evmorfidis is ideologically dedicated to ecology issues and to high quality customer experience. The protection of the environment and hospitality are at the heart of Coco-Matt’s DNA.

Professional background: Before he established COCO-MAT a company manufacturing mattresses and furniture he used to work as a P.E. or English Language teacher in private schools.

Educational experience: He enrolled at the University of Economics and graduated in 1985. During this second university course, having been awarded a scholarship, he had the opportunity to spend two semesters at the University of Cologne studying Journalism

Country of origin: Born to Greek parents in Greece –Sparta.

Significant achievements: In the relatively brief span of 23 years, COCO-MAT grew to be a leader in the Greek market and a standard-bearer for sustainable development. In recent years the company’s orientation has been increasingly focusing on foreign markets with retail presence in Holland, Spain, Belgium, Ireland, China and Saudi Arabia.

Awards & Honors: The total quality system implemented and the exceptional quality of the company’s products have been recognized by authoritative bodies and institutions in Greece as well as abroad.

Reload factor: Through the process of establishing and managing COCO-MAT Paul had the opportunity to experience, first hand, the various problems faced by small and medium-sized enterprises as well as to put into practice his personal views and beliefs regarding sustainable development. During the recent years Evfmorfidis became a remarkable business role model for many self-driven Greek entrepreneurs who had the opportunity to meet him in person in various conferences forums and workshops that he had been participated. Paul has shared his story by providing many valuable insights about how is to be an entrepreneur today based in Greece while promoting products and services abroad. The last decades, Paul benefits Greek society to a great extent, by generating many new job positions in Greece.

George Spanoudakis

President & CEO of Pinnatta

Categories:
Tech start-ups, Entrepreuneurship, Social Gaming

Related links:
https://pinnatta.com/
http://www.thiinkle.com/

“The situation in Greece has changed dramatically, businesswise. Especially young business. One does not need to emigrate in order to go after his dream. He can do it, while living in Greece.”*

George is a dynamic entrepreneur with great experience in tech startups. He is known for his involvement in the design and development of some of the most viral and addicting social applications. Pinnatta is an interactive messaging mobile service that has raised funds from US, Russian, Chinese and Greek investors.  

Professional background: George started his first company at the age of 21 while he was still at the university and a year later he worked in the Silicon Valley for a spin-off startup from Stanford University. In 2008 he founded Thiinkle – one of the first social gaming companies worldwide. Since 2011 he is also a founding partner of Apps4Mags – an automated platform for publishing interactive magazines on tablets.

Educational experience:  He studied Computer Science at the University of Crete and the University of Manchester

Country of origin: He was born in Greece

Significant achievements: By 2010, while he was still service as CEO, more than 23,000,000 people had downloaded Thiinkle’s games and the company’s porfolio was including the development of more than 100 applications for 3rd party customers from Greece, Cyprus, US, Canada and Israel

Reload factor: Pinnata is a Greek-Amerinan startup and its target is the international market. The 70% of its users are based in America and their offices are located in USA and in Greece. The $700K of this startup was funded by Silicon Valley investors.  George is an inspiring business model for many young aspiring entrepreneurs to develop globally oriented businesses ventures which contribute to their own society as well.

Watch George at Reload Greece’s Conference.

Harris Ikonomopoulos 

Owner of Ikonomopouls & Partners LLP

Greek joint President, British Hellenic Chamber of Commerce

Categories:
Legal counselling

Related links:
www.enet.gr
www.ikonomopoulos.gr

“…There are paradigms like Corallia Company that develops locally and competes globally. What we need to do is to be convinced that we can attract the most intuitive productive intelligent and wealthy people of the world entirely by rewarding success and we can have them chose the Greece as their basis” *

Harris Ikonomopoulos is a lawyer practicing before the Greek Supreme Court and Council of State. He is also the Greek joint President, British Hellenic Chamber of Commerce and Publisher of daily Eleftherotypia. Speaker/moderator in several Greek and international conferences, author of articles on legal issues and community matters.

Professional background: Has advised/advises and represented/represents as Legal Counsel Clients such as the Hellenic Republic’s Inter Ministerial Committee of Privatizations, institutional investors for investment and development in Greece and South East Europe, privatizations, energy and Upstream, telecom, housing and tourism development projects etc. 

Educational experience: Law degree in Ethnikon kai Kapodistriakon Panepistimion Athinon

Country of origin: Born in Greece

Significant achievements: Harris Ikonomopoulos is a co-founder and Chairing Friend of ELPIDES association (www.elpides.org), a non-profit citizens union that is, inter alia, working on a specific institutional reform plan for Greece in co-operation with similar think tanks and work groups. 

Reload factor: He has been elected as the Greek joint president of the British Hellenic Chamber of Commerce. The Association of Bilateral Hellenic-European Chambers of Commerce launched in Greece in order to contribute towards the development of the country’s enterprises.

Watch Harris at Reload Greece’s Conference.

Luís de Melo Jerónimo

Project Manager, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

Categories:
Social entrepreneurship, Social innovation

Related links:
http://www.gulbenkian.org.uk/

“Our best resources in Portugal are the people who have immense potentials and we really need to find the ways to unlock those potentials“*

Luís Jerónimo works as Project Manager at the Human Development Programme of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. He manages a portfolio of projects on social innovation and entrepreneurship, including “Ideias de Origem Portuguesa”

Professional background: He has joined the Gulbenkian Foundation in 2006 and worked at Uk Branch of the Foundation from September 2009 – April 2010. Juri Member of the European Comission Innitiative “Regiostars 2013”

Educational experience: He holds a Degree in Philosophy and has recently completed INSEAD Social Entrepreneurship Programme.

Country of origin: Portugal

Reload factor: The Human Development Programme of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation is focused on innovation and social entrepreneurship, with a special emphasis on social inclusion of youngsters at risk, elderly people and unemployment. Louis supports rehabilitation projects that are based on a cooperation network with a great impact on society.

Manos Sifakis

President/CEO of Customedialabs

Categories:
Branding, Technology

Related links:
http://www.customedialabs.com

Manos Sifakis loves making the ordinary extraordinary – and it shows. As the founder and CEO of customedialabs he’s created a different kind of agency, an innovation-focused fusion of business, branding, creative and technology.

Professional background: After he completed his studies, he moved to Philadelphia to pursue a career in Information Technology. In 2000, when he was just 24 years old, he launched Custom I.T. a technology firm. Over the last 10 years the company has evolved into a full service digital agency and in 2007 it was renamed customedialabs to reflect its unique blend of marketing and technological innovation.

Educational experience: He attended college in Manchester, U.K., where he studied computer systems engineering, a combination of electrical and software engineering.

Country of origin: Greece –Larisa

Significant achievements: The customedialabs client list has grown to include various industry leaders such as Exxon Mobil, CARFAX, ModSpace, Genomind, Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry, various Johnson & Johnson divisions, Bayer Pharmaceutical, Aetna and many more.

Reload factor: In the very beginning Manos decided the first employees that he would hired to be Greeks. By the time he returned to the United States, he’d established a second home for Custom I.T. in Larissa. Customedialabs is now comprised of 60 team members between the North American headquarters in Wayne, PA, and the European headquarters in Larissa, Greece, serving clients throughout the globe. The last few years Manos generated many new job positions in Greece by contributing directly to the local and national community not only social but financial as well.

Mareva Grabowski

Founder and Vice Chairman of Endeavor Greece

Categories:
Investment, Banking, Asset Management

Related links:
http://www.endeavor.org/
http://www.endeavor.org/network/endeavorglobal/boardofdirectors/mareva-grabowski/1742

“The Greek entrepreneurs have natural affinity to Entrepreneurship”*

Mareva is a Founder and Vice Chairman of Endeavor Greece

Professional background: After 12 years in the investment banking and asset management divisions at Deutsche Bank, in 2007, Mareva Grabowski founded MG Capital Advisors S.A., an independent advisory firm which focuses on wealth management, deal origination and private equity. In 2010, Mareva founded Eternia Capital, an asset management firm which focuses on hedge fund investments.

Educational background: Mareva holds a BA in Political Science and History from Boston College, a MIA from Columbia University and a MBA from Harvard Business School.

Country of origin: She has been born in Athens

Significant achievements: She is also a member of the Asia Pacific Acquisitions Committee at the TATE Modern, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Athens Biennale and a member of the Contemporary Art Support Committee of the Museum of Cycladic Art. Since 2008, Mareva is also on the advisory Board of Dara Capital, a Swiss based investment advisor.

Reload factor: Endeavour believes on the idea that high-impact Entrepreneurs can create thriving companies that employ thousands of people and that those people could inspire countless as leading role models. Endeavor helps High-Impact Entrepreneurs unleash their potential by introducing a network of business leaders, who provide mentorship, networks, strategic advice, and inspiration in order to help them to succeeding in terms of their entrepreneurial ventures. Endeavor has created a network of consultants who the last few years operate not only on abroad but in Greece as well.

Watch Mareva at the Reload Greece event/conference.

Maria Taylor Dramaliotis

Managing Partner at Beacon Capital Ventures

Categories:
Banking, Management, Angel Investment, Mobile Technology

Related links:
http://www.coco-mat.com/?i=coco_int.en

Maria Taylor Dramaliotis since 2003, when she made her first angel investment, she has worked with some of Europe’s most forward thinking entrepreneurs.

Professional experience: Maria is a Managing Partner at Beacon Capital focusing on internet & mobile and the founder of Angellab, a London-based angel syndicate. She is on the Board of the US venture accelerator Astia and a mentor with Seedcamp and the Accelerator Academy. She was a senior manager at Andersen and Ernst &Young

Educational experience: She studied engineering at Imperial College London and the National Technical University of Athens (Ethniko Metsovio Polytechneio), has an MBA from Cranfield School of Management and attended the PE & VC executive course at Harvard Business School.

Country of origin: Born to Greek parents in Greece –Sparta-. Evmorfidis has also lived as a foreign language tutor in England, France, Spain, Holland and elsewhere.

Significant achievements: She set up Incito Ventures for FinanceSE, an angel network for women-led tech start ups, co-founded Protos Capital, a £30m startup VC focusing on corporate spin outs and was on the Advisory Board of the award-winning PoCKet fund.

Awards & Honors: Maria was previously a senior manager with Andersen and Ernst &Young and came to the UK when she won a CBI scholarship for overseas engineers with outstanding potential.

Reload factor: Since 2003 when she made her first angel investment, she has worked with talented, forward thinking entrepreneurs like the founders of Grafighters, Thrives, Anywhere.me, Improve Digital, Stingray (sold) and Pervasic (sold) and became the R&D-award winning CEO of Ciphergrid alpha-launching ahead of the curve a Database-As-A-Service. She supported and guided young entrepreneurs to run their own global businesses and to generate social and economic growth for their countries.

Michalis Gkontas 

Founder of COOKISTO

Categories:
Food

Related links:
https://www.forky.gr

Michalis turn his business plan into reality by being determined to follow the entrepreneurial path and inspired by the movement of Collaborative Consumption, Michalis decided to solve his greatest daily problem: access to delicious homemade food.

Professional background: is a Founder of Forky which enables customers to order food online within 15min delivery.  Previously he founded Cookisto, a peer-to-peer community marketplace connecting talented home cooks with hungry locals.

Educational experience: Michalis graduated from AUEB in 2009 and after completing his military service he joined the Global Entrepreneurship Program (GEP) in 2010.  This program teaches entrepreneurship in a global context, where candidates spend a semester (four months) at each of the three institutes; EM Lyon Business School (France), Zhejiang University (China), and Babson College (USA).

Reload factor: Cookisto is a platform that neighbors share delicious homemade meals. By this, people who use this app eat better, split the cost and have fun by meeting their neighbors. Michalis proved that the young generation has a powerful role to play in Greece by growing innovative ventures which resolving challenges and contributing to the society.

Mike Sotirakos

Entrepreneur / CEO Launch 1000

Mike is an entrepreneur, investor and an engineer by training. After 11 years in academia he branched out into business and has launched a number of companies within a wide range of industries. 

Professional background: He is the CEO of Launch 1000 (previous Watershed Entrepreneurs Ltd) and one of its founder members. Mike has extensive experience in converting ideas to ventures and serves at the board of a number of technology and consultancy companies (Non-executive Director and Non-executive Chairman). Mike advises at board level large blue-chip multinational corporates on intrapreneurship. In his early career Mike served in the corporate world as an engineer and business development manager.

Educational experience:  BEng, MSc, MPhil, MIET, MIoD, CEng  

Country of origin: Greece

Reload factor: Mike is a mentor and investor in a number of start-ups. He passionately believes that the global economy is ready for a paradigm shift. He is working with a number of start-ups and investors to build a network of ventures based on the principles of Radical Generosity that will create wealth and at the same time have a profound and positive social impact. He is interested to help and invest in ventures that bring hope and maximise opportunity at a big scale.

Watch Mike at Reload Greece’s Conference.

Panagiotis Papazilakis 

Operations Manager of Evrofarma

Categories:
Marketing

Related links:
http://evrofarma.gr/en/

Panagiotis from a young age, he dedicated himself to his family business, EVROFARMA Inc, which is based in Didimoticho and is active within the primary and secondary sectors of production.

Professional background: He, now, acts as the Farm Operations Manager in the farm of the Campus AE, subsidiary company of EVROFARMA Inc, and he is the mastermind on the evolution of EVROFARMA into a sophisticated company, listed on the Athens Stock Exchange, with a production reaching almost 2% of Greek milk production.

Educational experience: He graduated from the National Technical University of Athens from the department of Mechanical Engineering and with specialization in Production Engineering.

Country of origin: Greece – Alexandroupolis.

Significant achievements: Two of Dopios priorities are personalization and authentic travelling experience and because of that it manages to count today more than 350 dopios experiences in Athens.

Reload factor: Evrofarma focuses on sustainable development and by implementing innovative methods of reproduction manages to create new job positions in Greece and in that way to support the society.

Spyros Kouvelis

Founder of Greeks Can

Categories:
Politics, Diplomacy

Related links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyros_Kouvelis

Spyros is the Founder of “Greeks Can” which is a campaign initiative, implemented by NU*Age in collaboration with the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, on a 100% voluntary basis.

Professional background: He was elected as Member of the Greek Parliament in 2009 (A’ Athens) for a second term, and served as Deputy Foreign Minister from October 2009 until June 2011. His duties included economic and energy diplomacy, environmental and cultural diplomacy, development cooperation and humanitarian assistance.

He was first elected a Member of the Greek Parliament as an MP of State in September 2007 with the Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK). He was the Political Representative (Shadow Minister) of the Socialist Party on Environment and Planning issues until 2009. In 1997 he was appointed Advisor to the Deputy Minister of Environment, Planning and Public Works of Greece, where he worked until 2001.

Educational experience: He holds a BSc in Economics from the University of Athens and an MSc in Agricultural/ Environmental Economics from the University of Reading in the UK.

Country of origin: Spyros Kouvelis was born in Athens, Greece

Significant achievements: He has worked extensively with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) since 1991 where he was the Conservation Director from 1995 to 1997 and member of the Management Team directing the organization.

Reload factor: The “Greeks Can” campaign’s purpose is to showcase the creativity of Greece that has a vision by communicating examples of Greek initiatives in entrepreneurship, research, social work, arts, sports etc which have been successful in the middle of crisis. The aim of this campaign was to inspiring Greek young individuals to think innovatively with a global outlook.  The whole project was based on the idea that the young generation has a significant role to play in spreading entrepreneurial know how to their peers.

Watch Spyros at Reload Greece’s Conference.

Stathis Haikalis

Chairman at Communication Effect

Founder of Up Greek Tourism and Human Grid.

Categories:
Media & Communication, Tourism

Related links:
http://www.upgreektourism.gr/

Stathis Haikalis is the Chairman at Communication Effect and founder of Up Greek Tourism and Human Grid.  Up Greek Tourism is a crowdfunding project that aims at promoting Greek hospitality at an international level and at raising positive publicity for citizen’s activation in Greece. Human Grid is a TEDxAthens initiative that supports volunteerism and solidarity activities in Greece.

Professional background: Until 2000, he has worked as editor in the Athenian newspaper “To Vima”. Then he decided to resign from the media industry and he founded EFFECT, a company that offers integrated communication solutions. Since then, he has been company’s chairman. EFFECT is the exclusive affiliate of Edelman, the world’s largest public relations firm, for Greece and Cyprus.

Educational experience: Stathis holds an engineering degree from the National Technical University of Athens.

Country of origin: Greece

Reload factor: During the beginning of the economic crisis in Greece, Stathis made the decision to contribute to the founding of Teams and Communities that aim at meeting two main principal needs of his country. On the one hand to defend and build up the reputation of Greece at an international level. On the other hand, there was the principle to reinforce the culture of solidarity among Greeks especially for the vulnerable groups of people who are the victims of the financial and eventually social crisis.

Stratos Chatzigiannis

Investment Director at NBGI PE

Categories:
Finance, Shipping industry
Related links:
http://www.nbgipe.com/real-estate/people/

Stratos Chatzigiannis is an Investment Director at NBGI PE, and was formerly Head of Capital Markets of NBGI, as well as a former Director of Corporate Finance at EFG Private Bank.

Professional background: He has 15 years of experience in the capital markets, having been involved in many major Greek capital raising activities, including shipping companies.

Mr. Chatzigiannis has extensive experience in the shipping industry in structuring shipping transactions, arranging financings and capital raisings as well as in the operational cycles of the industry.

Educational experience: Mr. Chatzigiannis holds a BSc and MSc in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics (LSE) and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales.

Country of origin: Greece

Tony Kypreos

Founder of Entouch & Founder of DUPL

Categories:
Digital Media, Mobile Technology, Nanotechnology, Preventive Health, Wellbeing

Related links:
http://www.springboard.pro/
https://angel.co/tony-kypreos

Tony is the founder of DUPL and Entouch enabling people with digital aptitude, to empower later adopters to discover, share, learn and enjoy the Internet and its capabilities from connected devices.  He is an investor and board advisor in various sectors including mobile technology, digital media and nanotechnology.

Professional background: DUPL enables “shared state” between two people at distance – not just to exchange information but to bond and build empathy by doing things, including co-browsing together in real time such as shopping, booking tickets or planning a holiday, watching video clips together and sharing relevant content all within a real-time call. Dupl is focused on being inclusive, a product that everyone can use. He is a founding investor in Springboard Cambridge, Europe’s leading venture accelerator in collaboration with Cambridge University and Nesta and a member of the British Government’s initiative the Global Entrepreneur Programme. Formerly he was a member of the operational board of T-Mobile International and Deutsche Telekom’s VC arm, T-Ventures and Group Managing Director of Bauer Digital for the €1.4bn M&A of EMAP PLC.

Educational experience: Tony holds a BSc (Hon) in Physics & Electronic Systems, Brunel University and an MBA from Henley Business School.

Significant achievements: His entrepreneurial experience includes being co-founder of mobile entertainment company, Mobilephonia and leading the repositioning and turnaround of digital services agency Bluewave into an e-learning compliance company, and led the sale in 2003. He was a member of the leadership team for the $800m IPO of Agency.com (NASDAQ: ACOM).

Reload factor: Tony is focused on leveraging insight, design and technology for scalable positive impact (People, Society, and Environment). This platform supports certain healthcare professionals who want to run consultations with their clients via Dulp. That means that millions of customers and professionals are able to improve their lives because of its use. Dulp benefits the society itself ,not only financially but also socially, by allowing to young professionals wherever they are located (e.g.Greek healthcare professionals) to provide their consultancy services.

Vassilios Makios

Corallia General Director

Categories:
Technology industry

Related links:
http://www.clusterpolisee.eu/ppt-atene/corallia-cluster-initiative.pdf
http://www.corallia.org/en/

“… The richness of Greece is in the mind of young people and also it is in the creation mechanism which needs a chaotic environment has very many prospects of dynamic processing”*

Vassilios Makios has been influential in the establishment of hi-tech companies in Greece and abroad.

Professional background: He is a co-founder and Head of the Corallia Clusters Initiative. He is also a Professor Emeritus at the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Patras, Greece and at the Dept. of Electronics of Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada

Educational experience:  Prof. Vassiliοs Makios has received an Electrical Engineering degree from the Technical University in Munich, Germany and a Ph.D from the Max Planck Institute for Plasmaphysics in Munich.

Significant achievements: He has been involved in teaching and research in microwave and optical communications, data communications networks, LAN’s MAN’s, B-ISDN and ATM technology with emphasis on efficient hardware implementations and rapid prototyping, and also in photovoltaic systems research. He has published over 150 papers and numerous patents in the above fields. 

Awards & Honors: He has been awarded the silver and gold medal of the German Electrical Engineering Society.

Reload factor: Corallia ‘s aim is to enhance innovation in certain areas where Greece can attain international acclaim, by bringing together all key innovation players in a sustainable ecosystem (SMEs, academia, R&D centers, government, suppliers, customers, financial institutions, VCs, .etc).Cambridge, and University of Economics, et al). Corallia motivates and encourages young people to act entrepreneurially under the scope of thinking innovatively and embracing/adapting the principle of solidarity.   

Watch Vassilios Makios at Reload Greece’s Conference.

Xenia P. Papastavrou

Founder of BOROUME

Categories:
Social innovation, non – profit organisation, aid programs

Related links:
http://www.boroume.gr/

Since she was young, Xenia dreamed of working in a humanitarian organization in a faraway country, a dream that finally came true in her own home when she thought of creating a website to link people in need of food with those who have surplus food so that nothing is wasted.

Professional background: In May 2011, BOROUME was born as a platform that maximizes the potential of the internet to save food and ensure its donation to those who need it most. Today, BOROUME is a non-profit food rescue organization that facilitates food donations to more than 800 food aid programs across Greece. She is a writer of poetry and in 2006, she completed the UK Open University’s Creative Writing Course. From 1999 until 2012, she worked as a senior editor for the website in.gr of the Lambrakis Press where she designed the first vortal for Agrotourism, and as a project manager at the Lambrakis Foundation where she designed the Foundation’s Education vortal e-paideia.net and as a senior editor of Discovery & Science Magazine of the Lambrakis Press.

Educational background: Xenia has studied Ancient Greek and Philosophy at Edinburgh University and Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management at the London School of Economics.

Country of origin: Greece

Significant achievements: To date, over 750,000 meals have been offered through its network. Without collecting, storing or distributing food, BOROUME operates by finding the most suitable food aid program -in terms of need and location- and coordinates the food collection, hence minimizing the effort of the donor to a single phone call.

Xenios Thrasyvoulou

Founder & CEO – PeoplePerHour.com

Categories:
HR

Related links:
PeoplePerHour.com
http://www.xeniosblog.com/

“I dig in, roll up my cuffs, get my fingers burnt, fall to ashes, then I stand up, roll up my cuffs, dig in a little further till I find a spark, I nurture it, I follow it relentlessly until it lights a fire. I follow the fire, with it I tear down walls, I question, doubt and prove myself wrong, I feel the burn again but I am fearless, for by now I know – I am nothing but its aftermath”*

Xenios is responsible for the overall vision and direction of PeoplePerHour.com. He is also the Founder & CEO of SuperTasker.com

Professional background: Inexperienced and utterly unemployable, at the age of 22 he began creating a service that allowed time-starved individuals to outsource work to multi-skilled individuals on a ‘per hour’ basis. Three years later PeoplePerHour.com was born.

Educational background: Xenios holds an MA/MEng from Cambridge University and attended executive education at Harvard Business School.

Country of origin: He is coming from Greece.

Significant achievement: PeoplePerHour is vibrant community of over 50,000 freelancers across 150 countries. His organization has operations in London, Athens, Berlin, and New York

Reload factor: Xenios’ passion for Product, relentless pursuit of innovation and deep obsession for customer service and user experience are very much defining points of the company’s culture and ethos. He introduced a one-stop virtual global community which connects small businesses and freelancers. His innovated platform in the space of outsourcing/ working online creates new job positions in Greece.

Yiannis Konstantinides

Co-founder & Creative director of NOMINT

Categories:
Marketing, Advertising, Animation Production

Related links:
http://nomint.com/

Yiannis is the co-founder and creative director of NOMINT, an animation production company with studios in London and Athens.

Professional background: Since 2006, NOMINT has produced more than 150 commercial projects for clients across the world (Google, Cadbury, Greek National Bank, Coca-Cola) and has been awarded numerous times for its creativity (ADC Young Guns, Cannes Lions, iF, European Design Awards, EBGE)

Educational experience: Yannis studied Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL) and also holds an MA in Scenography from Central Saint Martins where he graduated with distinction in 2003.

Country of origin: Greece

Significant achievements: NOMINT has recently started representing exceptional international directors, like Eric Lerner and Tony Zagoraios, in the UK and the US.

Reload factor: Nomint is a London based, award-winning animation Production Company which has offices at Athens. This enterprise is globally oriented, although, it has a strong connection with Greece.

Marilia Katras

Group Senior Strategic Analyst, Titan Cement

Related links:
http://www.titan.gr/

Marilia has been with Titan since 2007, and is today the Group’s senior strategic analyst within the Group’s Business Development Department. She holds exclusive oversight of and responsibility for the Group’s strategic intelligence gathering and research, the setting of monitoring priorities and the adaptation of strategic focus according to evolving market conditions and the Group’s business development targets. She contributes her specialized industry knowledge to various Group projects and is part of the Group’s team assessing, evaluating and conducting M&A. Prior to joining Titan she worked in shipping for six years in a similar corporate development function whilst during her student years gained exposure to institutional policy-making through internships at the European Parliament in Brussels and the House of Commons in London.

Educational experience: Marilia holds a BSc and a MSc in International Relations, both from the London School of Economics.

Country of origin: Greece

Significant achievements:Marilia is motivated by empowering young people, in particular, and seeing them pursue their goals. As such, to this day, she considers one of her greatest achievements the setting up of the Athens office of the Oxford-based European Youth Parliament, a forum created to bring together students from all over Europe to discuss, propose and debate on real current policy issues of the European polity. As such, she organized the training and coaching of numerous Greek national student delegations, helping them prepare to debate on European policy issues and raising high-school level awareness of European current affairs. In 2000-1, taking a gap year between completing her studies and joining the professional world, she served as president of the Athens office and headed the team responsible for the organisation, planning, fundraising and was the principal public liaison for the European Youth Parliament International Session held in Athens with the participation of over 200 students from 20 countries across Europe.

Reload factor:Marilia believes that no society, and by extension business venture, can function oblivious to the international environment surrounding it, and is an ardent follower of international affairs, believing in global interconnectedness and the attainment of the ‘global view’ as the most steadfast way to securely ground one, locally. Having been brought up internationally, she has visited over 150 cities in 60 countries and considers herself a citizen of the world but Greece is what she will always call home. She speaks English, Greek, German and French and when she is not discovering new business opportunities, she is discovering pristine beaches and surf spots in Greece.

Jay Cano

CEO/CTO at Plotist & PhD Researcher

Related links:
http://www.plotist.com

Plotist is a small startup aimed at creating a tool to write fiction. Something that Jay could use to store his notes and easily search through them as well as create visuals to organize his plots.

Educational experience:He holds a MSc in Social Science Research Methods from the University of Surrey and he has previously attended Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and Colegio San Augustin Madrid.

Country of origin:Madrid

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Shirley Zheng

Managing Director,
Mason Events Management Ltd

Related links:

Mason is a British innovative entrepreneurial company with full of vitality. It has successfully organized more than 20 international events with scope of coverage to the UK, Europe, Middle East, North America and Australia.

Professional experience:Shirley has experience as a personal assistant at IDG Capital Partners, as inbound operator at China Holidays, as Delegates Manager at Marketing Options International, Coordinator at Reed Exhibitions and team leader at the Olympic Games in Beijing.

Educational experience: She holds a MSc in International Events and Management from the University of Surrey and a BA in English from Hubei University of Economics in China.

Country of origin:China

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Télémaque Argyriou

Founder & Director,
Kalimera Foods Ltd

Related links: http://kalimera.london

After 16 years in the corporate banking world, Télémaque decided it was time he created something innovative and scalable to fit what is widely perceived as an existing gap in the food market.

Professional experience: He was previously Head of Distribution at Sales Development at BNP Paribas Investment Partners, the Chief Operating Officer at Fischer Francis Trees & Watts and Chief of Staff at FundQuest.

Educational experience: Télémaque has a Master in Business and European Law from Universite Robert Schuman, Strasbourg, a DESS in Banking and Financial Law from Universite Jean Moulin, Lyon and an EMBA from ESCP Europe.

Country of origin: Freance, Greece

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Reload factor: Télémaque aims at sourcing a maximum of products from Greece and by using only extra virgin greek food.

Stelios Papagrigoriou

Co-Founder & CEO,
SuitsMe

Related links: http://www.trysuitsme.com

SuitsMe was born with the vision to bring a fully personalized experience online. The intersection between everyday fashion and technology, humans and data. The goal is to build the first super-personalised AI tool that will know everything about the user.

Professional experience: He has experience as Senior Full Stack Engineer at Affectv, as Technology Analyst at Bank of America and as IT Consultant.

Educational experience: He holds a MSc in Advanced Computing and Computer Science from Imperial College London and a MEng in Electronics and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Architecture, Electronics and Telecommunications from the Technical University of Crete.

Country of origin:Greece

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Songya Kesler

Consultant & Coach at Songya Kesler

Categories: Coaching, Entrepreneurship, Emotional Intelligence

Related links:

Songya designs and delivers coaching programs, workshops and classes with an emphasis on mindfulness, positive psychology, self-awareness and emotional intelligence. She works with firms to strategize, design and implement additional revenue streams.

Professional background: She has experience as Mindfulness Contributor at Sotoventures Media, as a Business Intern at Node.io and is also the Co-Founder at Circle Chic.

Educational background: She has a BSc in Structural Engineering & Architectural Design and a MSc, DCI in Design & Construction Integration both from Stanford University and an MBA in Healthcare Concentration from Cambridge Judge Business School.

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Saf Nazeer

Co-Founder and CEO at Helpfulpeeps

Categories: Management, Marketing, Social Entrepreneurhip, Computer Software

Related links:
http://www.helpfulpeeps.com

Saf is co-founder and CEO of Helpfulpeeps, a new social network built on the principles of ‘paying it forward’ where people share their time, energy, skills and knowledge to help each other for free.

Professional background: He was Director of major accounts, Head of EMEA Accounts, Summit Director, Sales Manager, Senior Sales Executive all at at GDS International.

Educational background: He has a MSc in International Management from Bristol Business School and a BA in Economics and Marketing from the University of the West of England.

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Significant achievement: He believes in harnessing the power of the internet to make a positive impact and is on a mission to bring back community spirit in an increasingly disconnected world.

Valentine Tzekas

Founder and CEO at Near-Share your Story

Categories: Management, Marketing, Social Entrepreneurhip, Computer Software

Related links:
http://www.helpfulpeeps.com

Near is a world-open photo story telling app. You can share your everyday experience with the whole world without any limits.

Professional background: He has experience as Web and Mobile Designer at Freelancer.com

Educational background: He has a Bachelors degree in Finance and Computer Science from the University of Macedonia.

Country of origin: Greece.

Significant achievement: After attending SXSW and the successful acquisition of his startup, Valentine is touring Greece, spreading knowledge and motivation among the Greek youth! As he says, it’s a mission not a job.

Robert Pocknell

CEO at N&M Consultancy

Categories: Law, Intellectual Property, Telecommunications, Licensing, Patents.

Related links:
www.fair-standards.org/
http://www.keystonelaw.co.uk

Robert is a consultant at Keystone Law, a Chairman of the Fair Standards Alliance, an organization advocating that companies comply with their obligations to license standards essential patents on a fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) basis, especially in the IoT industry.

Professional background: He has over 20 years in Business and Product Development, Planning, Marketing and Operations in both the US and Europe.

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Significant achievement: He has played an important role in three different start-ups and expanded current company into an international leading manufacturing entity.

Ivan J. Sakellariou

Managing Director at Autostop Leather Ltd

Categories: Management, Marketing, Manufacturing

Related links:

Autostop is one of the leaders in the design, development and production of leather, vinyl and fabric high-end interiors of cars.

Professional background: He has over 20 years in Business and Product Development, Planning, Marketing and Operations in both the US and Europe.

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Significant achievement: He has played an important role in three different start-ups and expanded current company into an international leading manufacturing entity.

Angelos Gkanoutas-Leventis, PhD

Vice President,
Greek Energy Forum

Categories: Shipping, Greek Energy Forum

Related links:
www.fair-standards.org/
http://www.greekenergyforum.com

Angelos is a published economist, with studies from the London School of Economics and City University. He works for BP Shipping, where he currently focuses on analytics and performance management.

Professional background: Angelos is one of the founding members and current Vice President of the Greek Energy Forum, a non-profit organization with international presence and recognition, promoting the development of the Energy and Hydrocarbons industry in Greece and the wider South East Mediterranean region.

Educational background: He holds a B.Sc. in Economics and Politics from Brunel University, an M.Sc. in Policies and Government in the European Union from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Angelos was awarded a PhD from the City University of London, for his research on the financialisation of the oil market.

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Significant achievement: The Greek Energy Forum is a leading professional network with 10,000 members and currently featuring six branch offices in London, Brussels, Athens, Nicosia, Dubai and Washington DC. The international network aims to inform and communicate new ideas and dialogue among energy professionals.

Reload Factor: Through the Forum, he has managed to establish a platform which Greek energy professionals can have the ability to network, share ideas and benchmark best practices on current industry developments and market trends.
Angelos is a successful entrepreneurial role model who was featured at Reload Greece Conference 2016: Enterprising Diasporas – From Brain Drain to Brain Gain.

Aristos Doxiadis

General Partner,
OpenFund

Categories: Business, Management, Research and Writing.

Related links:
http://theopenfund.com

OpenFund invests in technology startups from Greece and addressing international markets. It offers support and guidance to entrepreneurs and helps to get businesses off the ground fast.

Professional background: In his 17 years’ prior experience in private equity in Greece, Aristos has effected expansion capital investments, formed new businesses and start-ups, raised and also structured funds.
He has participated in the boards of about twenty companies. Aristos has extensive experience in management consulting and in public policy advice. 
He often writes on Greek economy and society.

Educational background: He studied social sciences and economics at Harvard University and at the University of London.

Country of origin: Greece.

Significant achievement: His book “The Invisible Rift: Institutions and Behaviours in the Greek Economy” (in Greek), was published in 2013. It talks about the essence of the crisis and the lack of depth of the Greek economy, in a simple way through the reality of businesses and the institutions that surround them.

Reload Factor: The OpenFund is a new seed capital venture, focusing on start-ups around software, mobile and the web. Based in Athens, it helps entrepreneurs to turn ideas into products and success.
Aristos is a successful entrepreneurial role model who was featured at Reload Greece Conference 2016: Enterprising Diasporas – From Brain Drain to Brain Gain.

Charalampos Papadopoulos

Co-Founder & COO at S2 Development Ltd.

Categories: R&D, Project Management.

Related links:
https://booknbloom.com/en

Charalambos is the co-Founder and COO in Book ‘n’ Bloom, an innovative product in the area of social media and Software as a service (SaaS) that aims to bring booking-led small and midsize businesses to the new era, allowing them to operate through Facebook.

Professional background: His main responsibility is the organization design by creating an organization environment where al members from different geographical location and different departments can cooperate efficiently.

Educational background: He graduated as an Electrical and Computer engineer from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Country of origin: Greece.

Significant achievement: In 2005, he made an entrance to the robotics filed by organizing and managing a team of students in order to create a robotic arm.
In 2007 he continued to manage the same team in order to participate in the 12th RoboCup World Championship in China. He also participated in the 13th championship in Austria as a project manager, where his team got ranked again first among the European teams.

Awards & Honors: In 2009 he was received the Aristotle University Innovation Award.

Reload Factor: Book ‘n’ Bloom was founded in Thessaloniki and now enjoys a worldwide presence. Charalampos is a successful entrepreneurial role model who was featured at Reload Greece.

Christos Stergiou

Founder & CEO
at TrueGreece

Categories: Hospitality, Business.

Related links:
http://www.truegreece.com/

Christos is the Founder and CEO of TrueGreece, a luxury travel company dedicated to an authentic travel experience. He has now launched TrueFrance, TrueItalia, TrueSpain and TrueTurkey as distinct luxury travel brands.

Professional background: After growing up in Greece and learning the art of hospitality at his family’s Petra Hotel & Suites in Patmos, he spent nine years studying and working in the US before returning to his home and found TrueGreece.
After completing his first degree, Christos spent three years working at the economic consulting firm Charles River Associates, Inc.

Educational background: He has a degree in Economics from Brandeis University and a MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Country of origin: Greece.

Significant achievement: He is a member of the Board of Directors of Marketing Greece, a leading private-sector and non-profit institution dedicated to promoting and branding Greece as a travel destination.
Christos is also the current President of the Stanford Club of Greece.

Awards & Honors: Condé Nast Traveler Magazine has listed Christos as one of the world’s Top Travel Specialists yearly since 2008, while since 2009 he has been continuously included in Travel and Leisure’s yearly A-list of top travel agents globally. He has also been selected as the sole Trusted Travel Expert for Greece in the Wendy Perrin WOW List.

Reload factor: TrueGreece promises and delivers a travel experience that could only be planned by a local friend.
Christos is a successful entrepreneurial role model who was featured at Reload Greece Conference 2016: Enterprising Diasporas – From Brain Drain to Brain Gain.

Claus Rosenberg Gotthard

Co-Founder & CEO
at Book ‘n’ Bloom

Categories: Trading, Distribution, Services, Engineering.

Related links:
https://booknbloom.com/en

Claus is a Danish serial-entrepreneur who has done business and built companies for over 30 years. Despite no formal education Claus’s many ventures spans a wide range of industries from Trading and Distribution to Services and Engineering.

Professional background: His latest venture is the software solution Book ‘n’ Bloom which is an innovative product in the area of social media and Software as a service (SaaS) that aims to bring booking-led small and midsize businesses to the new era, allowing them to operate through Facebook. Claus has co-Founded the software solution with Charalampos Papadopoulos.

Educational background:

Country of origin: Denmark

Significant achievement: Book ‘n’ Bloom recently closed Series A funding of £11 million. They have their Product Development and Customer Support in Thessaloniki, employing more than 20 people.

Awards & Honors: Seedcampt Tel Aviv – Finalist (2012), The South Summit – Finalist (2014), Small Business of the Year in Russia (2001).

Reload factor: Book ‘n’ Bloom was founded in Thessaloniki and now enjoys a worldwide presence. Claus is a successful entrepreneurial role model who was featured at Reload Greece Conference 2016: Enterprising Diasporas – From Brain Drain to Brain Gain.

George Constantelis

President & CEO
of GeoVent Corporation Group of Companies

George is President and CEO of GeoVent Corporation, a group of companies whose focus of activity lies within both the pharmaceutical and the service sectors.

Professional background: He has 21 years experience with Bristol-Myers Squibb as Managing Director, General Manager and Marketing and Business Development Director for Oncology Europe.

Educational background: George has a BSc in Biology from Concordia University, a Graduate Diploma at Business Administration from McGill University and has also completed an Advanced Management Program from INSEAD (CEPED).

Country of origin: Greece

Significant achievement: He was Chairman of the Pharmaceutical Committee of the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Board of both the Hellenic Association of Pharmaceutical Companies and the American Association of Pharmaceutical Companies.

Reload factor: GeoVent Corporation aims to develop collaborations and alliances for innovative products with pharmaceutical and biotech companies, with great aspirations in investing in Greece. Their vision is to become a significant player in Health Care in Greece and thereby contribute to this country’s economic growth.

George is a successful entrepreneurial role model who was featured at Reload Greece Conference 2016: Enterprising Diasporas – From Brain Drain to Brain Gain.

George Economides

Co-Founder & Managing Director
at Mastiha World Ltd.

Categories: Sales and Marketing.

Related links:
https://mastihaworld.co.uk

Mastiha World Ltd. is committed to importing and promoting only the highest quality authentic and natural mastiha products to the UK.

Professional background: George is also currently working as Head of Strategy at PrestonEV. He has experience as an Academic Mentor for the Disability Advisory Service, as a Teaching Lab Demonstrator and tutor on the Supplementary Subject of Advanced Quantum Mechanics, all at the University of Oxford.

Educational background: George holds a MChem in Chemistry and a D.Phil again in Chemistry, both from the University of Oxford.

Country of origin:Greece

Significant achievement: After completing his degrees, George spent one year teaching Advanced Quantum Mechanics and studying work psychology, while looking for an extraordinary product to launch his own business.

Awards & Honors: George received the Josef Pliva Award in 2012.

Reload factor: Mastiha Wolrd Ltd aims at indulging people to a world of 2,500 years old with origins in the Greek island of Chios. George is a successful entrepreneurial role model who was featured at Reload Greece Conference 2016: Enterprising Diasporas – From Brain Drain to Brain Gain.

Haris Makryniotis

Managing Director,
Endeavor Greece

Categories: Management, Consultant

Related links:
http://endeavor.org.gr

Haris is the Managing Director of Endeavor Greece, an organization aiming at choosing and supporting promising businesses in more than 20 countries.

Professional background: Prior to his involvement with Endeavor Greece, Haris spent seven years as a management consultant with McKinsey&Co, serving clients in Greece, UK, France, Germany, Turkey and Cyprus. He focused on a range of strategic, organizational and operational topics, with primary focus on public administration, financial institutions and healthcare.

Educational background: Haris has a MSc in Economics and Finance from LSE and a BSc in Banking and Finance from the University of Piraeus.

Country of origin:Greece

Significant achievement: As a senior manager in McKinsey’s office in Athens, he led the landmark growth strategy ‘Greece 10 Years Ahead’, which identifies the growth potential in multiple sectors of the Greek economy.

Reload factor: Through his involvement with Endeavor Greece, Haris shows his support for new entrepreneurs.
Haris is a successful entrepreneurial role model who was featured at Reload Greece Conference 2016: Enterprising Diasporas – From Brain Drain to Brain Gain.

Kiveli Dörken

Pianist

Categories: Music, Pianist

Related links:
http://www.molyvos.eu/molyvos-international-music-festival/

Kiveli Dörken started playing the piano at the age of five. Kiveli is the artistic director of the Molyvos International Music Festival, which she co-founded in 2015.

Professional background: Kiveli was the artistic director of The Molyvos International Music Festival that offered high-quality classical artists to its local community and strives to make classical music more accessible to people of all ages and backgrounds. She has given concerts in most European countries, China and the USA, has played in numerous distinguished festivals, for example the Braunschweig Classix or the “Next Generation” festival in Switzerland, and has performed in renowned halls, for instance the Gewandhaus Leipzig, the Kölner Philharmonie, the Hamburger Laiszhalle and the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg.

Educational background: She was taught by Prof. Kämmerling until his death at the University of Music in Hanover. Today, she is a student of Lars Vogt.

Country of origin:Germany

Significant achievement: In 2005 she was featured by the TV channel “ARTE” and 2009 by the WDR. In 2007 she played for the Dalai Lama and in 2009 for the chancellor Angela Merkel.

Awards & Honors: When she was five she was a prize-winning contestant of the “International Steinway competition” She won the “International Grotrian Steinweg competition” six consecutive times and has often been awarded the highest score at “Jugend musiziert”. As the youngest contestant she won the International EPTA competition in Croatia and the International Rotary-Youth competition. Kiveli is a stipendiary of the “Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben”, the International Music Academy Liechtenstein and the festival “Spannungen”.

Reload factor: Originating from Molyvos, Kiveli hoped for the festival to play a pivotal role in the cultural, economic and social development of Lesvos. She is a successful role model who was featured at Reload Greece Conference 2016: Enterprising Diasporas – From Brain Drain to Brain Gain.

Lois Labrianidis

Secretary General for Strategic and Private Investments
at the Greek Ministry of Economy, Development and Tourism

Categories: Greek Ministry of Economy, Development & Tourism, Secretary General

Related links:
http://rdpru.uom.gr/?q=en/node/22

Lois is Secretary General for Strategic and Private Investments Greek Ministry of Economy, Development & Tourism and Professor in the Development of Economics, University of Macedonia Greece and head of the Regional Development and Planning Research Unit.

Professional background: He is an economic geographer and has done research and published on topics such as industrial location, the spatial aspects of subcontracting, the economic implications of educational infrastructure on their locality, development of rural areas, rural entrepreneurship, delocalization of economic activities and international migration.

Educational background: He has a BA from the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, a MA from the University of Sussex and a PhD from LSE.

Country of origin:Greece

Significant achievement: His scholarly publications include 12 books, including Investing in Leaving: The Greek Case of International Migration of Professionals, 2016.

Awards & Honors: George received the Josef Pliva Award in 2012.

Reload factor: Lois was featured at Reload Greece Conference 2016: Enterprising Diasporas – From Brain Drain to Brain Gain.

Michael Jacobides

Sir Donald Gordon Chair of Entrepreneurship & Innovation
at London Business School–Associate Professor of Strategy

Categories: Management, Consultant, Enterpreneurship

Related links:
http://www.redesigngreece.gr/en/

Michael is also a visiting scholar at the New York Fed and has spearheaded RedesignGreece that aims to help rationalize the debate on overhauling public administration, and focus on specific solutions to Greece’s thorny problems.

Professional background: He studies industry evolution, new business models, value migration and structural change in firms and sectors. His work has appeared in top academic journals as well as HBR, FT and Forbes.com, Kathimerini and CNN.

He is a frequent speaker in corporate events and has worked on strategy with Vodafone, Nokia, McKinsey, Accenture, PwC, Santander, Airbus, Lufthansa, Zurich, MerckSerono and the NHS.

He has worked with the UK parliament on policy and the future of financial services, the European Council on innovation in Europe.

Educational background: He has visited Harvard, NYU, Bocconi and Wharton where he obtained his PhD after studying at Athens, Cambridge and Stanford.

Country of origin:Greece

Significant achievement: He served on the Global Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum and has presented in the Davos Annual meetings.

Reload factor: Redesign Greece represents the efforts of a community that will engage both online and offline.

Michael is a successful entrepreneurial role model who was featured at Reload Greece Conference 2016: Enterprising Diasporas – From Brain Drain to Brain Gain.

Michail Bletsas

Director of Computing & Research Scientist
at MIT Media Lab

Categories: Research, Computing.

Michail is a Research Scientist and the Director of Computing at MIT’s Media Lab. He was a member of the core technical and design team for the ‘One Laptop Per Child’ initiative, which created OLPC’s pioneering and award-winning ‘XO’ laptop.

Professional background: Over the years, he has advised governments around technology policy issues and provided expert opinion in technical matters to top-level officials. He has co-Founded two companies, has been a director and consulted in many others in a variety of capacities.

Educational background: He holds an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a MSc in Computer Engineering from Boston University.

Country of origin: Greece

Significant achievement: He has implemented broadband access networks using cutting-edge technologies, including one of the earliest ADSL test beds and various wireless technologies.

Reload factor: He was featured at Reload Greece Conference 2016: Enterprising Diasporas – From Brain Drain to Brain Gain.

Nikos Vettas

General Director
at the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE)

Categories:
Research, Computing

Related links:

http://www.aueb.gr/users/vettas/


www.iobe.gr

Nikos is the General Director of the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research IOBE since 2013. He is a co-organizer of the annual Conference for Research on Economic Theory and Econometrics and a co-Founder of www.greekeconmistforreform.com

Professional background: He serves as Associate Editor of the International Journal of Industrial Organization and of the Journal of Industrial Economics and a Research Fellow at CEPR.
He has served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association, a member of the Hellenic Competition Commission and of the Economic Advisory Group for Competition Policy at the European Commission.
He is also a professor at the Athens University of Economics and Business since 2003, where he has served as the Chairman of the Economics Department and a member of the University Council.

Educational background: He has a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and has been an Associate Professor at Duke University and a visiting Professor at INSEAD.

Country of origin:Greece

Significant achievement: His work has been published at academic journals such as the International Economic Review, European Economic Review, Journal of Industrial Economics, Rand Journal of Economics, and the Review of Economic Studies.

Reload factor: He was featured at Reload Greece Conference 2016: Enterprising Diasporas – From Brain Drain to Brain Gain.

Panos Manuelidis

Managing Director
at Odysea Ltd

Categories: Research, Computing

Related links:
http://www.odysea.com

Disillusioned with the ‘Greek’ food offering available in the UK while he was a student, Panos embarked on a quest to bring the delights of real Greek cuisine to the UK.

Professional background: Starting from a stall in Portobello road, Panos spent his weekdays preparing olives and traditional Greek dips that he then sold to loyal customers at the weekend. As it grew in popularity it became clear to Panos that there was a gap in the market for high quality authentic Greek products and in 1991, Odysea was born.

Educational background: He studied Math Sciences at University of London and acquired a Master’s Degree in Analysis, Design and Information Systems at LSE.

Country of origin:Greece

Significant achievement: A large number of products in our range have been awarded Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) status. This is a geographical indication defined in EU law to protect regional foods. It acts as an assurance to our customers that they are purchasing a genuine, quality product.

Reload factor: Odysea prides itself in supplying products of the highest quality. Members of our team have scoured the length and breadth of Greece in search of the finest local producers. This allows us to guarantee a degree of quality and authenticity that mass production and sourcing methods may fail to match. Panos was featured at Reload Greece Conference 2016: Enterprising Diasporas – From Brain Drain to Brain Gain.

Tina Mavraki

Chair and Founding member
of Hellenic Hope

Categories: Trading, Capital Markets, Commodities

Related links:
http://www.hellenic-hope.org

Tina coordinates the overall efforts of Hellenic Hope, supporting kids at risk in Greece. She is Structured Finance Manager for Noble Group, the commodities trader.

Professional background: She previously ran her own FSA authorized advisory boutique and prior to that she pursued a 9-year career in investment banking.

Educational background: Tina has a MSc in Finance from LBS and a BA and MA in PPE from the University of Oxford.

Country of origin:Greece

Reload factor: She co-chaired Hellenic Hope’s Board of Trustees during the crucial first years, where she coordinated the overall efforts of Hellenic Hope. Tina was featured at Reload Greece Conference 2016: Enterprising Diasporas – From Brain Drain to Brain Gain.

Taha Coburn-Kutay

Chairman at UK Asian Business Council & President of Global Organisation
of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO) International, UK

Categories: Management Consulting

Related links:
http://ukabc.co.uk

Taha is the Chair of UK Asian Business Council (UKABC) and the President of Global Organisation of  People of Indian Origin (GOPIO) International, UK and the Managing Director of Monkey Consulting Ltd.

Professional background: He specializes in international business development and marketing focusing on technology, media, healthcare, renewable and green energy, education and sports, real estate.
He has 20 years of experience in business, which he conducted in the UK, Europe, Asia and Africa.
He works very closely with the public sector in India, consulting for various developments in the technology sector.
Taha holds several non-executive director roles in the private sector.

Reload factor: He was featured at Reload Greece Conference 2016: Enterprising Diasporas – From Brain Drain to Brain Gain.

Tzachi Davidovich

Co-Founder and CEO
of Cardlife and Founders Nation

Categories: Enterpreneur

Related links:
https://www.cardlifeapp.com

http://www.founders-nation.com/AboutUs.aspx

Tzachi is a serial entrepreneur with 8 years experience in startups. He is the co-Founder and CEO of Cardlife, a London-based SaaS startup backed by Seedcamp.

Professional background: In his free time, he supports startups with Founders Nation community and teaches marketing at the Startup Institute London.

Awards & Honors: Tzachi was awarded the Adelman Fellowship for Honors Students in Intellectual Property from the George Washington University (2007).

Reload factor: He was featured at Reload Greece Conference 2016: Enterprising Diasporas – From Brain Drain to Brain Gain.

Vassilis Nikolopoulos

Co-Founder & CEO
at Intelen

Categories: Enterpreneur

Related links:
http://intelen.com/us/

Vassilis is the CEO and co-founder of Intelen Inc, a fast growing New York-based Software/Technology Company in the domain of utility energy analytics and consumer digital engagement with the use of advanced behavioral data science.

Professional background: From 2005 to 2011, Vassilis has worked on technical trend forecasting methodologies and innovation management procedures, focusing on the Big Data problems applied to Utilities and the Energy Sector (Smart Grids). He has also worked for over 9 years in applied energy behavioral science, data analytics, algorithms and the application of social networks to change human behaviors towards a more sustainable way of living, especially in corporate environments. He applies some innovative data-driven behavioral science and mobile learning techniques over utility and meter data to identify behavioral trends that can raise the awareness of people inside buildings.

Educational background: He is a valedictorian Electrical Engineer from Dundee University, Scotland with postgraduate studies at Imperial College, LSE, Cambridge, Ecole Polytechnique and a PhD from Technical University of Athens, focused on real-time big data decision-making.

Country of origin:Greece

Significant achievement: Intelen currently grows fast on a global scale working with over 35 utilities in more than 10 European countries and 3 US States, reaching an end-user base of more than 10 million utility consumers in the next 2 years.

Awards & Honors: He has global recognitions in top innovation and entrepreneurship contests (US Red herring global, SVASE Silicon Valley Launch, Siemens global smartgrid innovation award, OECD eco-innovation, CeBIT top cleantech, etc).
He has 2 global patent pending applications on energy ICT related subjects, he is a mentor at the StartupBootamp accelerator and one of the top 100 Global mentors at the Founder Institute.

Reload factor: He was featured at Reload Greece Conference 2016: Enterprising Diasporas – From Brain Drain to Brain Gain.

Yannis Palaiologos

Author and Features Reporter
at Kathimerini newspaper

Categories: Journalism, Author

Related links:
http://portobellobooks.com/the-13th-labour-of-hercules

Yannis is a features reporter for Kathimerini newspaper and the author of ‘The Thirteenth Labour of Hercules’, a book on the Greek crisis, published in September 2014.

Professional background: He is also a contributor to the op-ed page of The Wall Street Journal and to the websites of Time magazine and Politico Europe, and, in the past, of the American Prospect and the New Republic.
He served as the editor-in-chief of Free Sunday newspaper and before that he was the special supplements editor of City Press newspaper.
Outside journalism, he co-authored a play, “Mama Ellada2”, which ran from 2009-2010 in Athens. It was a satire about Greek corruption and the alienation of youth, which attracted strong reviews and widespread international attention, including from the BBC, a number of German media, the Economist and many others.

Educational background: G He was educated at Athens College and Oxford University, where he received a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (first class honours) and a B.Phil (postgraduate degree) in Philosophy.

Country of origin:Greece

Significant achievement: He has commented on Greek issues on the BBC, CNN, NPR, France24, Al-Jazeera, RT and other international outlets.

Awards & Honors: He is a 2015-6 Marshall Memorial fellow for Greece, and the the recipient of the Greek Citi journalistic excellence award (in 2012, the first time the competition was held in Greece).

Reload factor: He was featured at Reload Greece Conference 2016: Enterprising Diasporas – From Brain Drain to Brain Gain.

Marina Hatsopoulos

Entrepreneur & Angel Investor.

Categories: Investor, Enterpreneur

Marina is a Director of Cynosure Inc, a $300 million leader in the laser aesthetics market as well as being the Chairperson of the Board and investor in Levitronix Technologies.

Professional experience: She is also currently an investor in Codebender and C2Sense. Marina was the Founding CEO and primary investor in Z Corporation. She has also served as Director of Contex Holding, a $100 million leading manufacturer.

Educational experience: She holds a BSc in Pure Math and Music from Brown University and a MSc in Mechanical Engineering from MIT.

Significant achievements: Marina was an investor and Director of the luxury tea brand: Dear Kate and Tea Forte, which was sold to Sara Lee.

Reload factor: She was featured at Reload Greece Conference 2016: Enterprising Diasporas – From Brain Drain to Brain Gain.

Vicky Pryce

Economist and CEBR Board Member

Categories: Economist & Author

Professor Vicky Pryce is a leading economist working on UK, global and Eurozone issues. She is currently on the board of the centre for Economics and Business Research.

Professional experience: Vicky was previously Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting, Director General for Economics and the Department for Business Innovation Skills and Joint Head of the UK’s Government Economic Service.
Before that she was partner at London Economics and at KPMG and held senior economists positions in oil and banking. 

Significant achievements: Her many publications include ‘Greekonomics-The Euro Crisis and Why Politicians Don’t Get It’ (Biteback, 2013) and ‘It’s the Economy, Stupid’ with Ross and Urwin (Biteback, 2015).

Reload factor: She was featured at Reload Greece Conference 2016: Enterprising Diasporas – From Brain Drain to Brain Gain.

Antonis Ntatzopoulos

Chairman
at the Hellenic Bankers Association UK

Categories: Investor, Banking

Related links:
http://www.hellenicbankers.org.uk


Antonis is the Chairman of the Hellenic Bankers Association UK (HBA) that was founded in 1994 to promote a closer co-operation among Greek and Cypriot Bankers and finance professionals based in London.

Professional experience: Antonis has 11 years of experience in Investment Banking, FIG Coverage and Capital Markets. Currently in RBS, Corporate and Institutional Banking, he focuses on financing UK and European Insurers, Brokers and Global Asset Managers.

Educational experience: He holds a degree in Business Administration from the Athens University of Economics and Business and a MSc in Investment Management from Cass Business School.

Country of origin: Greece

Significant achievements: Currently, HBA has more than 500 members and friends in the City of London, a membership, which has been the most pristine reflection of professionalism, model corporate citizenship and hard work ethics.

Reload factor: He was featured at Reload Greece Conference 2016: Enterprising Diasporas – From Brain Drain to Brain Gain.

Paul Papadimitriou

Founder
of Intelligencr

Categories: Keynote speaker, innovation scout, technologist, air travel expert

Related links:
http://papadimitriou.co

“We are people: Entrepreneurs, Free-thinkers, Igniters, Rule- Breakers.”

Paul wanders globally to witness what innovation actually means for our common future. He is active in multiple technology startup ecosystems, from the UK to Korea, Poland to Brazil, Greece to Japan.

Professional experience: He is also the Founder and producer of Layovers, a podcast on the future of flying and also the Notion Capital Expert, where he interviews the venture capital firm’s network.

Educational experience: He holds a Masters degree in International Affairs from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, a Masters degree in International Relations and Affairs from the University of Geneva.

Country of origin: Greek

Reload factor:  Paul is a successful entrepreneurial role model who was featured at Pitch@Reload in April 2016 at the London Business School.

Alex Loizou

Co-Founder and CTO
at Trouva

Categories: Information Technology and Services

Related links:
https://www.trouva.com

“You need to be passionate about what you are doing or else you won’t be able to perform.”

Trouva is an independent shopping site that works with a handpicked selection of the most inspired independent shops out there, to bring a shoppable collection of home and fashion products that stand out from the crowd.

Professional experience: Alex was a member of 2012 cohort at Entrepreneur First and a Project Management Intern at IBM. 

Educational experience: He has a MSc in Management Information Systems and Innovation from LSE and a BA in Media Informatics/Media Science, Computer Software and Media Applications from the University of Cologne.

Country of origin: Cyprus

Significant achievements: First Cypriot in the Forbes 30 under 30 list.

Awards & Honours: Forbes 30 under 30 – Consumer Tech and Forbes 30 under 30 – Technology (January 2016)

Reload factor:  Alex is a successful entrepreneurial role model who was featured at Prep@Reload at the London Business School in April 2016.

Dimitris Tsesmetzoglou

CEO
at Matrix Insurance & Reinsurance Brokers SA

Categories: Reinsurance broker

Related links:
http://www.matrix-brokers.com

“I like to create new things all the time and to evolve through creativity.”

Matrix is the leading independent reinsurance broker in providing innovative and structured products and services that reinforce the financial position of insurance companies.

Professional experience: Following his degrees, he joined the Lloyds and London insurance market and then went to look at what was his competitive advantage, and this was the Reinsurance business in his home territory, Greece and Cyprus. He also worked at BMS International and helped launch an Athens branch.

Educational experience: He has a degree from Cass Business School and from City University.

Country of origin: Greece

Significant achievements: Matrix has more than 50% market share in Greece and Cyprus and it’s the only Lloyd registered broker in the country with 45 staff and premium income throughout in excess of 150 million.

Reload factor:  Dimitris is a successful entrepreneurial role model who was featured at Ignite@Reload at the Cass Business School in March 2016.

Michael Hadjijoseph

Co-Founder & CEO
at Stagedoor

Categories: Information Technology and Services

Related links:
www.stagedoorapp.com

Stagedoor is the first theatre discovery app in the world, with the ambition of becoming the iMDB of theatre. It helps theatre lovers discover theatre performances through relevant, data driven and social recommendations.

Professional experience: Michael’s previous roles included project management at onefinestay.com and peopleperhour.com. In 2012 he also co-founded the Cypriot Enterprise Link (CEL) which is a youth-led organization aimed to connect and support Cypriot entrepreneurial talent.

Educational experience: He has a BSc in Investment & Financial Risk Management from Cass Business School.

Country of origin: Cyprus

Awards & Honours: The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award (2006).

Reload factor:  Michael is a successful entrepreneurial role model who was featured at Ignite@Reload at the Cass Business School in March 2016.

Rhea Papanicolaou-Frangista

Founder
at Prettly

Categories: Investment management, Health, Wellness

Related links:
https://www.prettly.com

Watch Rhea here

“There is a list of things that you want to look at when you are trying to find a good co-Founder, but I would urge you to really put a lot of weight on values. I personally feel that sharing the same value system is extremely important.”

Prettly is an online platform that connects users to mobile beauty and well-being professionals. It helps users to easily find and book delivered beauty treatments to be enjoyed in the comfort of their own chosen location.

Professional experience: Rhea has experience in consultancy at Grow Movement and The Boston Consulting Group and as Marketing Manager at Artfinder.

Educational experience: She has a BA in Modern European History from Brown University, a MSc in European Public Policy from UCL and a MBA in Double Concentration in Entrepreneurial Management and Marketing from the London Business School.

Country of origin: Greece

Significant achievements: Grow Movement Volunteer Consultant Completed Project  (2015)

Awards & Honours:

Reload factor:  Rhea is a successful entrepreneurial role model who was featured at Ignite@Reload at the London Business School in March 2016.

Eirini Malliaraki

Founder and Business Developer
at Filisia Interfaces

Categories: Health, Wellness and Fitness

Related links:
http://filisia-interfaces.com

Watch Eirini here

“I think it is really important that if you want to make something for people, you design it with them from day one. Design with and for users.”

Eirini works in the intersection of technology and the arts in order to achieve significant social impact. She wants to know more today about the world that she knew yesterday, lessen the suffering of others and discover beauty in all shapes.

Professional experience: Filisia supports the training and education of people with additional needs through interactive games, music and machine learning. Eirini’s responsibilities include fundraising, financing, operations, business planning, business strategy and communications.
She has previous experience as Assistant Financial Controller at Euromedica Group SA and as Market Researcher at Global Link International Marketing Research.

Educational experience: She Holds a MA in Innovation Design Engineering from the Royal College of Art, a MSc in Innovation Design Engineering from Imperial College and a Bachelor’s in Accounting and Finance from Athens University of Economics and Business.

Country of origin: Greece

Significant achievements: She was a delegate at the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp of Stanford University.

Awards & Honours: Sirius Programme (2014).

Clinton Global Initiative Univeristy Fellow (2014)

Reload factor:  Eirini is a successful entrepreneurial role model who was featured at Ignite@Reload at the London Business School in March 2016.

Theo Anagnostopoulos

Co-Founder and Director of SciCo
& Founder and Director of Theta Communications

Categories: Information, Technology, Science, Education, Communication

Related links:
http://scico.gr/en/

Watch Theo here

“There aren’t any prototypes. You prototype your own idea and your own business model.”

As a Science Communicator and Social Entrepreneur, Theo’s vision is to promote and communicate science, technology and creative thinking. The way he achieves this is by leading a team of professionals and volunteers from diverse backgrounds.

Professional experience: SciCo is a non-profit organization whose aim is to communicate scientific issues to the public via innovative and entertaining means. Theta Communications brings the best of breed in web-based tracking systems and technology. Theo has previous experience as Market Research Manager at AstraZeneca and but also as a Researcher. He is the President at the Onassis Scholars Association.

Educational experience: He holds a PhD in Medical and Molecular Genetics from King’s College, a MSc in Human Reproductive Biology from Imperial College, a BSc in Genetics from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne while he as also completed an Executive Program in Social Entrepreneurship at Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Country of origin: Greece

Significant achievements: He received a full scholarship to attend the weeklong executive program in Stanford.

Awards & Honours: Kallinga Science Popularisator Award Nominee by UNESCO Greece (2011) and Young Scientist Award at the 20^th IUBMB Congress in Kyoto (2006)

Reload factor:  Theo is a successful entrepreneurial role model who was featured at Ignite@Reload at the London Business School in March 2016.

Garry Pratt

Co-Founder at Digworld Travel Ltd
and Co-Founder at Teachit

Categories: Education, Archaeology, Business

Related links:
http://www.dig.world/en_GB/

Garry trained as an archaeologist, specializing in Minoan archaeology, and then switched tracks to pursue a fast-track career in business. He co-founded, built and sold an educational publishing company, Teachit. He continues to keep a practical involvement in archaeology.

Professional experience: Garry also has experience in Mentoring, consultancy and management. 

Educational experience: He has a MA in Maritime Archaeology and a BA in Archaeology and Geology, both from the University of Bristol.

Significant achievements: He received a full scholarship to attend the weeklong executive program in Stanford.

Reload factor:  Garry is a successful entrepreneurial role model who was featured at Ignite@Reload at the University of Bath in March 2016.

James Nightingall

Property Search Consultant

Categories: Property, Consultancy

James previously ran his own property search company that worked with the UK’s leading buying agents to find off-market properties.

Professional experience: He is the co-Founder and CEO of Launch1000 Ltd, which is seeking to re-define the free market by fuelling a paradigm shift from a transactional economy to a relational economy based on trust. He also has experience in converting ideas to ventures and serves at the board of a number of technology and consultancy companies.

Educational experience: He has a postgraduate qualification from the Judge Business School at Cambridge University, a BSc in Property Agency and Markerting (RICS Accredited) from the Royal Agricultural University.

Country of origin: UK

Significant achievements: James was included in the Spears 500 in both 2015 and 2016, an essential guide for high net worth individuals. He was also nominated for the Spear’s Young Turk Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2014.

Awards & Honours: The Grand Idea Runner-Up 2012 and 2010

Reload factor:  James is a successful entrepreneurial role model who was featured at Ignite@Reload at the University of Cambridge in March 2016.

Dr Mike Romanos

Venture Partner
at the Rainbow Seed Fund

Categories: Biotech, Pharma

Mike is a Biotech/pharma executive with over 25 years industry experience in Biotech, Pharma and Investment and translation.

Professional experience: He also has broad experience and knowledge of drug discovery and associated technologies, across therapeutic areas and across modalities.

Educational experience: He has a PhD in Molecular Virology from Imperial College and a MA in Natural Sciences/Pharmacology from the University of Cambridge.

Country of origin: Greek

Reload factor:  Mike is a successful entrepreneurial role model who was featured at Ignite@Reload at the University of Cambridge in March 2016.

Paula Schwarz

Founder
of Startupboat

Categories: Information services, Humanitarian

Related links:
http://www.startupboat.eu

Watch Paula here:

“We all use tools that are similar in our everyday lives, but they have been used too little so far to provide humanitarian work to those in need. So we want to speak up about this, about the significant social impact scalable technology can play in building structures and providing effective, efficient humanitarian aid in times of crisis.”

Startupboat aims at mobilizing tech, business and social innovators to create solutions that change the frontline of migration.

Professional experience: Paula has previous experience as an Advisory Board Member at AMPION, a Communications and Outreach Trainee for Human Rights Watchand as a trainee in Capital Assets.

Educational experience: She has a MA from ALBA Graduate Business School and a degree in Political Sciences from Freie University in Berlin. She also has trainee experience from the EU-Fundraising association and in Investment Management from Stanford University.

Country of origin: German/Greek

Awards & Honours: Head Delegate Model United Nations NY (2011)

Reload factor: Paula’s work has a continuing impact on the refugee crisis. She is a successful entrepreneurial role model who was featured at Stand Up for Greece: Exceptional Individuals Making a Difference at London’s Hellenic Centre in January 2016. 

Kyriakos Kyriakopoulos

Founder
of Desmos & PoWEr

Categories: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering

Related links:
http://desmos.org/organizations-athens/?lang=en

Watch Kyriakos here

“Discussions started for what we could do to help the situation and the best way to do that was to find the gap in the market of non-profit organizations.”

Desmos is the connecting point between someone who is in need and someone that wants to help. It was created after Kyriakos and his brothers returned to Greece and realized that there is a lot of need but also a big surplus of time and energy from people that want to help but don’t where how to start. PoWEr is a volunteering community based in the UK that organizes charity events in aid of Desmos and the local community in the UK.

Professional experience: Kyriakos is also currently working as a Mechanical Project Engineer at the British Gypsum and Saint-Gobain. He has worked at Limelight Sports as an Event Organizer, he is the Founder and Project Coordinator of Copa CaBALA and Sas Pame Mpala. He also has experience as Process Engineer at Unilever in Leeds.

Educational experience: He holds a BEng in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Leeds and a MSc in Engineering Project Management, Finance & Risk from City University.

Country of origin: Greek

Reload factor:  Desmos has a positive impact on those who need it in local communities in the UK and also in Greece. Kyriakos is a successful entrepreneurial role model who was featured at Stand Up for Greece: Exceptional Individuals Making a Difference at London’s Hellenic Centre in January 2016.

Thom Feeney

Founder the ‘Greek Bailout Fund’
crowdfunding campaign

Categories: Information services, Humanitarian

Watch Thom here

“I think there a few important things to remember here and that’s that I started at my dining table with nothing, just this idea and the Internet has made the world a lot smaller and the processes a lot faster. You can do a lot very quickly, you don’t need a big chunk of money, you don’t need a PR team behind you; you just need a computer. But think about what your story is.”

Thom is a sales and marketing professional with interest in start-ups, retail, society and the arts. He is a big fan of new technologies, gadgets and platforms.

Professional experience: Among his experience, Thom has worked as a Business Development Manager at Swishd, while he has also worked as an Associate Community Manager at WeWork, as Marketing Manager at Noodle Live, as Communications & Development Manager at Half Moon Young People’s Theatre and as Press & Media Manager at the York Theatre Royal.

Educational experience: He has a BSc in Marketing from Lancaster University

Country of origin: UK

Reload factor:  Thom attempted to rescue the Greek economy by setting up a crowdfuding campaign. He is a successful entrepreneurial role model who was featured at Stand Up for Greece: Exceptional Individuals Making a Difference at London’s Hellenic Centre in January 2016. 

Dimitris Koutsolioutos

Founder and CEO
of Farmers Republic and Instayaught

Categories: Retail, Farming

Related links:
http://farmersrepublic.com

Watch Dimitris here

“When you have a passion you have to follow it. You might feel anxious that you may not succeed. Entrepreneurship is just like that. You go into unchartered waters, deep waters and even scary ones but you can create something and give back to your society.”

Dimitris launched the first Greek covered market for certified organic products, fresh, dry and packaged. It all started when he introduced a community-supported agriculture service allowing city dwellers to ‘rent’ a patch of land from a farmer.

Professional experience: Among his professional experience, he has worked at the Financial Analysis & Budgeting Department at the Hellenic Duty Free Shops, as a Retailer at Folli Follie and as a Research Assistant at the National Center for Social Research.

Educational experience: Dimitris has a degree in Economics from the Athens University of Economics and Business.

Country of origin: Greece

Reload factor:  He has managed to bring together the producers of biological products with the consumers while he also created a way for people to ‘rent’ their own piece of land and produce their own products. He is a successful entrepreneurial role model who was featured at MeetU@Reload at London’s Google Campus in December 2015.

Andrea Demichelis

Founder
at Elliot for Water

Categories: Entrepreneur, Safe Water

Related links:
http://www.elliotforwater.com

Watch Andrea here

“I found out that making mistakes is a very good way to learn because every step that you make is teaching you something new, it is teaching you how to go to the right direction so you just not to be afraid to make mistakes because it is what makes your business grow and what makes you grow as an entrepreneur. After all these mistakes and the challenges you start getting the rewards.”

Andrea is an entrepreneur bringing safe drinking water to 1 million people by 2025. He is the founder of Elliot For Water, a search engine that saves lives by using 60% of its profit to give access to safe drinking water to all those people who are likely to get deadly water-related diseases.

Professional experience: Among his professional experience, he has worked at the Financial Analysis & Budgeting Department at the Hellenic Duty Free Shops, as a Retailer at Folli Follie and as a Research Assistant at the National Center for Social Research.

Educational experience: He has a BBA and a MBA in Finance, Sustainable Development and Entrepreneurship from the Paris ESLSCA Business School.

Country of origin: Italy

Reload factor: Elliot for Water gives to everyone the possibility to contribute to saving lives completely for free, by simply surfing the web. The results and the sponsored links are provided by Yahoo, which is their main partner.

He is a successful entrepreneurial role model who was featured at MeetU@Reload at London’s Google Campus in December 2015.

Alex Christodoulou

Co-Founder and CTO
at Weengs

Categories: Web Developer

Related links:
http://weengs.co.uk

Watch Andrea here

“What you do as an antidote to the fear is the leap of faith. You don’t know where you are going and the only thing to get you going is to have faith that, ok, how worse can it be than what I live now and I don’t like it.”

Alex considers himself as creative by nature, entrepreneur by choice. He is interested in building anything missing out there that can improve people’s lives or companies’ value.

Professional experience: He is also the co-Founder and CTO of Locish and he has previous experience as a Web Developer. 

Educational experience: He has a MEng in Computer Engineering and Informatics for the University of Patras.

Country of origin: Greece

Reload factor: He is a successful entrepreneurial role model who was featured at MeetU@Reload at London’s Google Campus in December 2015.

Takis Malavetas

Co-Founder and CEO
at Convibo

Categories: Sales and Marketing.

Related links:
https://convibo.com

Watch Takis here

“Even if you think big, you better start small.”

Convibo is a same-day grocery delivery service in London. Customers can shop through the website, choosing their groceries from the best supermarkets and get them delivered on the same day, in as little as one hour.

Professional experience: Takis is also a casual lecturer in MSc modules such as E-commerce, Sales, Sales Management, Business Model Generation and Management of Change.
He has experience in sales, marketing and business development and was running a small business in the wholesale sector for about four years.

Educational experience: He has a Msc in Innovation, Entrepreneurship & E-business from the University of Warwick and a BSc in Business Administration from the Technological Educational Institute of Chalkis

Country of origin: Greece

Reload factor: He is a successful entrepreneurial role model who was featured at MeetU@Reload at King’s College London in October 2015.

Sokratis Papafloratos

Co-Founder and CEO
at Penny and Togethera, Angel Investor

Categories: Technology, Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Artificial Intelligence

Related links:
http://www.joinpenny.com

Watch Sokratis here

“If you do not have the passion, it will show.”

Sokratis recently launched Penny, a website that helps you sort your household bills for free.
Togethera was a private sharing app for your family and loved ones, that was unfortunately shut down after three years of hard work.

Professional experience: Sokratis has also worked as Head of Social Products at Yell, as a CEO & Co-Founder of TrustedPlaces, as Head of UK Operations at Qwikker and as Business Analyst at Vodafone.

Educational experience: He has a MEng in Electronic Engineering from the University of York and a MSc in Information Processing and Neural Networks from King’s College.

Country of origin: Greece

Significant achievements: Togethera was featured by Apple under ‘Best New Apps’ globally a number of times.

Reload factor: He is a successful entrepreneurial role model who was featured at MeetU@Reload at King’s College London in October 2015.

John Voultsis

CEO
at MonthlyFlavors

Categories: Sales, Marketing, Business Development

Related links:
https://www.monthlyflavors.com

Watch John here

“Don’t do it alone. And the most important thing is that you need a coach, a mentor.”

MonthlyFlavors is a venture that has the goal of creating a new service for distributing and marketing healthy Mediterranean and gourmet food products, with the convenience of subscription E-commerce.

Professional experience: He has experience as CEO at Global Cargo Ltd.

Educational experience: He has a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens.

Country of origin: Greece

Awards & Honours: Certificate in handling export procedures & Certificate in financial risk management and insurance for the transport fo goods and payment.

Reload factor: He is a successful entrepreneurial role model who was featured at MeetU@Reload at King’s College London in October 2015.

Hugo Dixon

Chairman & Editor-in-Chief
of InFacts

Categories: Columnist, Entrepreneur

Related links:
https://hugo-dixon.com

Hugo is a columnist and entrepreneur. InFacts is a journalistic enterprise making the fact-based case for Britain to stay in the EU. He writes a regular column on political economy for The International New York Times, Reuters and Breakingviews. He also writes for The Financial Times, The Guardian and other publications.

Professional experience: He founded Breakingviews in 1999 and was Editor-in-Chief and Chairman until it was acquired by Thomson Reuters in 2009. He had previously spent 13 years at the Financial Times, the last five as head of Lex.

Educational experience: He has a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens.

Country of origin: UK

Significant achievements: His most recent book is ‘The In/Out Question: Why Britain Should Stay in the EU and Fight to Make it Better’

Awards & Honours: Hugo was named Business Journalist of the Year 2000 in the British Press Awards. In 2008, he won the Decade of Excellence Award at the Business Journalist of the Year Awards.

Reload factor: He is a successful entrepreneurial role model who was featured at the Reload Greece Forum in June 2015.

Steve Vranakis

Executive Creative Director
at Google Creative Lab

Categories: Marketing, Advertising

Watch Steve here

“Why not start over as a start-up nation and reload an entire country. Encourage entrepreneurialism from within and allow start-ups globally to tap into this new Greece.”

Steve built a career in Marketing and Advertising and he is now working as an Executive Creative Director at Google Creative Lab.

Professional experience: He is the co-Founder and was the Executive Creative Director of VCCP, Foote -Cone & Belding San Francisco, Interactive Creative Director at WCRS London, Creative Director at Modem Media and Associate Creative Director at DDB Canada.

Country of origin: Greek

Reload factor: He is a successful entrepreneurial role model who was featured at Reload Greece Conference in March 2014: Empowering the Global Community.

Dr. Periclis Papadopoulos

Aerospace Engineering Professor
& Astrophysicist, NASA

Categories: Astrophysics, NASA

Watch Periclis here

“Greeks thrive with opportunity. It is like a flower, if you cut it, it dies.”

Periclis has been working for NASA Ames in California since 1987, having committed as a partner for over 10 years to the Curiosity landing program, as head of the thermal protection system research team.

Professional experience: He relocated to the US to pursue his academic dream of studying Aeronautics and Aeronautical Engineering with expertise in planet exploration and ultrasounds.

Educational experience: PhD from Stanford University.

Country of origin: Greece

Significant achievements: In 2003, Periklis Papadopoulos founded Space Systems LLC and as an expert in ultrasonic reintegration he is the head of a research team having accomplished important programme goals and missions for the exploration of space and planets of our solar system.
He has been awarded by NASA for his offer and has also earned the prestigious Turning Goals into Reality award.

Reload factor: He has tried to expand NASA operations in Greece in an attempt to inspire the younger generations.
Periclis loves Greece and hopes to settle down in Kalamata after retirement.
He is a successful entrepreneurial role model who was featured at Reload Greece Conference in March 2014: Empowering the Global Community.

Tak Lo

Program Manager
at Techstars

Categories: Technology, Innovation, Management Consulting

Related links:

Watch Tak here

“If you want to build a business, just build a business. Don’t think about it, just do it.”

Tak tries to create startup leaders in Asia. He specializes in early-stage team building, has hired and led 1-20 person teams from across industries, including military, startups, banking and venture. He is also an Angel Investor.

Professional experience: He has worked in Consulting and Finance for many years but decided to take the leap and start his own business.

Educational experience: He has a MBA from London Business School, a General Course degree in Economics from LSE and a BA in Economics from The University of Chicago.

Awards & Honours: Deloitte Institute of Innovation & Entrepreneurship Founder’s Award 2012.

Chicago Alumni Association Young Alumni Award 2010.

Reload factor: He is a successful entrepreneurial role model who was featured at Reload Greece Conference in March 2014: Empowering the Global Community.

Nikos Stathopoulos

Managing Partner at BC Partners
& Member of The Hellenic Initiative

Categories: Private Equity Investor

Related links:
https://www.thehellenicinitiative.org

Watch Nikos here

“If we channel our passion the right way, that is how it will make a difference.”

Nikos has been working as a Private Equity Investor for the last 20 years. He is also the member of The Hellenic Initiative, aimed at supporting crisis relief efforts, promoting entrepreneurship and catalyzing economic development.

Professional experience: He used to be a partner at Apax Partners and a Management Consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.

Educational experience: He has a MBA from Harvard Business School.

Country of origin: Greece

Reload factor: He is a successful entrepreneurial role model who was featured at Reload Greece Conference in March 2014: Empowering the Global Community.