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In 2016 Jeremy set up Aristeus Financial Services, an asset management firm in Cyprus which is fully regulated by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission where he has passed his advanced examinations. He retired on 31st March 2023 and relinquished his chairmanship but remains on the main board and other related vehicles as a non […]

John Koudounis assumed the position of Calamos Investments CEO in 2016 and has more than 35 years of experience on Wall Street. In 2008, he was recognized as the youngest CEO on Wall Street, serving as President and CEO of Mizuho Securities USA. During his tenure, he built the firm into a top 10 Global […]

Andrew N. Liveris AO is the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Dow Chemical Company and the former Executive Chairman of DowDuPont. As the company’s longest- serving non-family CEO, and with a combined 42 years of experience at Dow, Andrew had assignments in manufacturing, engineering, sales, marketing, and business and general management before […]

Nikos Stathopoulos serves as the Chairman of Europe and is a member of the Management Committee and Investment Committee at BC Partners, a premier international investment firm managing over $40 billion in assets. He joined BC Partners in 2005 and brings nearly three decades of expertise in private equity across a number of sectors and […]

George James Tsunis presented his credentials to the President of the Hellenic Republic on May 10, 2022. He was nominated by President Biden and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 10, 2022. Ambassador Tsunis is the proud Greek-American son of immigrants to the United States, with deep roots in the village of Platanos […]

Yannis Alivizatos is the COO of Skroutz. Prior to joining Skroutz he worked at Deliveroo, one of the largest food delivery marketplaces globally, as General Manager of Deliveroo Editions (cloud kitchen network) and as Director of Strategy and Special Projects. Before Deliveroo, Yannis was a founding team member and VP of Operations & Finance at […]

Alex Fotakidis is a Partner at CVC and Head of Greece. He is based in Athens and responsible for all of CVC’s investment activities in Greece. Alex has been working at CVC for more than 16 years and previously spent 5 years at CIBC World Markets. He holds an MSc in Environmental and Natural Resource […]

George started www.skroutz.gr as a hobby project, having worked for several years as a freelance professional. He always had a soft spot for hardware but became professionally involved with software. Together with Vasilis Dimos they founded and operated Forty-Two, a company which was the backbone for the technical/programming development of Skroutz. A few years later, […]

Alex Patelis is chief economic adviser to Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. He has over three decades of experience as an economist, analyst and strategist, working in a variety of positions in New York, London and Athens. Alex started his career with the US economics research team at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York, […]