Ypofantis Nikos

Ypofantis Nikos

My name is Nikos Ypofantis and I work for more than 20 years at TV SKAI TV, Skai Radio 100.3 and at the websites www.skai.gr www.meaculpa.gr, www.eea.gr. I write for magazines and business story websites. I present the Ready Business show on Skai TV and a series of broadcasts on the radio.
I have been covering for more than 23 years the reporting of entrepreneurship, trade in energy, industry, innovation, technology and the "real" economy.
I work as a communications consultant in energy groups, in the National Confederation of Entrepreneurship, in the professional Chamber of Athens and in regional chambers.
Studies in communication, media and advertising and l speak Spanish and English.

Kyriakopoulos Thymios

Mr. Thymios Kyriakopoulos currently serves as Executive General Manager and Group Chief Risk Officer for Piraeus Bank SA. He is the Chairman of the Senior Credit and Recovery committees, a member of the Group Executive Committee, and either Chairs or sits as a member of a host of operational and strategic committees as well as boards of subsidiaries. He is also leading the cultural transformation effort of the Bank.

Mr. Kyriakopoulos started his career in New York City in Consulting and Banking, and participated in establishing one of the early Fintech companies which eventually floated on Nasdaq. He subsequently spent a decade in London where he served as Managing Director in the Fixed Income Trading group of Goldman Sachs.

He is an MBA graduate with Honors from The Wharton School with a concentration in Finance, and prior to that received his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University.

Koulis Nicos

Nicos Koulis is the CEO of DECA Investments AIFM, the investment manager of Diorama Investments Sicar, a € 135 million Luxembourg –based private equity fund established in 2014 to provide growth equity capital to export-oriented Greek companies. Prior to DECA he served for four years as the head of Eurobank’s private equity group.
Mr. Koulis started his career in New York City where he spent 18 years working with McKinsey & Company, The First Boston Corporation (M&A Group), and Bear Stearns & Co. where he was a Senior Managing Director in Investment Banking. Later he established an M&A advisory firm, which provided advisory and fundraising services to several international companies.
He is a graduate of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (MBA 1983) and Athens University, School of Law (1979). He serves as a member of the BoD of several companies.

Maragakis Ilias

Mr Ilias Maragakis, joined Fraport Greece at the start of the project in 2016, being one of the first members of the senior management team. Before becoming COO, he oversaw the implementation of the highest international standards, procedures and best practices in all 14 airports. Mr Maragakis has more than 20 years of aviation experience having worked at the European Aviation Safety Agency for 9 years and before that as a consultant for the expansion of regional airports in the UK. He has an MSc in Airport Planning & Management.

Mangiriadis Apostolos

Apostolos Mangiriadis is a Political Correspondent for SKAI TV and Radio Producer for SKAI Radio. He was the Editor-in-Chief of HISTORIES, SKAI TV's leading current affairs program. He has worked as a Political Correspondent for MEGA TV and a contributing editor for TA NEA newspaper, Greece’s historic daily. He writes for reader.gr and is a frequent contributor to magazine publications. He holds a Master in Journalism and International Affairs from Columbia University in the city of New York and a BA in Political Science from Athens Law School. He was born and raised in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Zamboukas Andreas

Journalist Andreas Zamboukas is a publishing consultant on the liberal.gr website and editor-in-chief in the newspaper Fileleftheros.
He is a graduate of the Classical Philology of the University of Athens Philosophical School and has worked in written and electronic daily press.
He is one of the co-founders of liberal.gr and the newspaper Fileleftheros. Andreas Zamboukas lives and works in Athens.

Barlos Kleomenes

Kleomenes Barlos born on March 20, 1949 in Patras. He received BA in Chemistry and a PhD in Chemistry degree from the University of Munich in 1976 concerning the composition and fasmatoskopeia boranes, organophosphorus and organosilicon compounds.
In 1980 he joined the Organic Chemistry Laboratory of the University of Patras as Specialist and subsequently came to the rank of Professor. Since 1981 teaches "Organic Chemistry" and "Peptide and Combinatorial Chemistry" at the University / University of Patras where he worked in the areas of amino acid derivatives, specialty polymers and synthesis of peptides and small proteins.
Moreover founded CBL Patras S.A. in 1990 with the business of which is engaged to date.
Since June 2015 is Chairman of the Board the Federation of Industries of the Peloponnese & Western Greece.

Pierrakakis Kyriakos

Kyriakos Pierrakakis is the Director of Research of diaNEOsis. In the past, he worked as Innovation Coordinator at Athens Information Technology (AIT), as an advisor to the Greek Ministry of Economic Development, as Chairman of Greece’s Institute for Youth and as a researcher at MIT’s Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR) and at the Center for American Progress. Also, he served as member of the Greek government’s negotiating team with the troika of lenders in 2014. Kyriakos Pierrakakis is a graduate of MIT’s Engineering Systems Division, of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and of the Athens University of Economics and Business.

Brachos Ioannis

Ioannis Brachos was born in 1962, in Athens. He studied Economics at the Economics Department of the University of Athens and at the University of London (Queen Mary College).

He holds a PhD in Eeconomics and has worked as an academic in the Economics Department of the University of Athens and in the private sector.

He is a Ministry of Foreign Affairs Expert Minister Counsellor on Economic and European affairs. During his career he has handled, among other things, issues related to the formulation of the European Union’s Cooperation Agreements with third countries and the economic dimension of climate change. As head of the economic unit of the Permanent Representation of Greece to the EU (starting in 2015), he dealt with financial, taxation and customs matters, as well as state aid, EU budget and Brexit financial issues.

He is married and has two children.

Xirocostas Andreas

Andreas joined SAP Hellas in 1999 as Application Consultant & Presales Consultant. From 2002 until 2007 he worked as Sector Sales Manager in Manufacturing and Telecommunications.
In 2008 he assumed the Sales Director position for SAP Greece & Cyprus, with responsibilities in Direct and Indirect Business together with the Commercial and Relationship Management of the Ecosystem.
Since April 2016 his company entrusted him the position of Managing Director, for Greece, Cyprus & Malta.
Andreas holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering - Production Engineering from National Technical University of Athens.