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Panos Papadopoulos

CEO, Bugsense, USA

Panos Papadopoulos

Co-founder & CEO, Bugsense, USA/Greece

Panos is the founder and CEO of BugSense, the leading mobile app quality and performance monitoring solution. He founded BugSense with Jon Vlachogiannis in 2011 and is already a profitable with high growth rate and Fortune 500 customers. Panos studied Computer Science at Athens University of Economics and Business, holds a Certificate in Global Leadership from RMP International in India and speaks 4 languages. Before BugSense, Panos also founded StayInAthens, a AirBnB like service for foreign students in Athens and worked in other US-based startups. He is also founded the greek developer communities for Ruby, Javascript and Google Developer Groups.
George Papadakis

Co founder Phaistos Networks

George Papadakis

Co founder Phaistos Networks

George is the Head Of Operations at Phaistos Networks since 1997. Having supervised the implementation of a plethora of web services (Pathfinder.gr, Adman.gr, Trinity.gr among others), he is knowledgeable enough in terms of how to incorporate up-to-date techniques while creating usable and accessible web applications.
Nikos Anagnostou

Entrepreneur, Blogger

Nikos Anagnostou

Entrepreneur, Blogger - Athens, Greece

Nikos Anagnostou is the co-owner at Scicada, a new media consulting firm. He has also served as the COO of Project Online, a project management ASP and design software wholesaler and as the Applications Manager and Finance Director at Oracle Greece for approximately 10 years. His pet project is prosfor.es, a shopping deals aggregator. Moreover, Nikos is a founding member of the Greek Open Coffee and co-creator of Greekstartups.com. He blogs at metablogging.gr, webtropic.cc about Social Media, technology, web applications and startups.
Teresa Farmaki

Independent Investment Advisor, UK

Teresa Farmaki

Independent Investment Advisor, UK

Ms Teresa Farmaki, 30, has received a BSc in Economics from the National and Capidistrian University of Athens and an MBA from Columbia Business School in New York with particular focus in Entrepreneurship and Finance. She also studied one MBA semester at London Business School, where she supported Imperial College postgraduate students to complete commercialization studies on their innovation ideas. Teresa was Head of Private Equity at Piraeus Bank in Athens, where she evaluated a wide spectrum of venture capital and private equity investments in terms of size and maturity. In the beginning of 2009 she launched the 30M Piraeus-TANEO venture capital fund, which is now run by a team of three. Previously, she worked in investment banking at UBS Investment Bank in Mergers & Acquisitions in London and in Power and Renewable Energy in New York. She started her professional career in 2000 and has worked in several positions in asset management and consulting.
Charis Ermopoulos

Engineer, Google

Charis Ermopoulos

Software Engineer, Google File System, Google - Mountain View, CA, US

Charis Ermopoulos is currently a senior software engineer at Google, working on GFS (the Google file system). In the past, he worked at NCSA and Motorola Research Labs on data mining and security related projects. He holds an MsC in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he was pursuing a Ph.D. His interests include distributed systems and data mining.
John Nousis

Serial Entrepreneur

John Nousis

Serial Web Entrepreneur - Athens, Greece

John Nousis is yet trying to finish his degree in the Physics Department of the University of Athens. However, he proved to be disproportionally active in the entrepreneurial world. Just after finishing high-school, back in 1997, John co-founded his first start-up with Stefanos Vasdekis in the web hosting field. After a successful exit two years later, he moved on to co-found a number of internet companies (always together with his true soulmate, Stefanos Vasdekis) in the fields of ecommerce, web publishing, software development, internet consulting, online travel reservations and social networking. His favourite and most successful venture up to now is an ecommerce store that was selling software to US customers. Today, he spends his time on his ongoing projects and on new ones serving selected international markets.
Nikos Drandakis

CEO, Taxibeat, Greece

Nikos Drandakis

Chief Executive Officer, Taxibeat, Greece

Nick is the founder and CEO of Taxibeat, a mobile taxi service that aims to transform the global taxi industry from a closed highly regulated ecosystem, to an open marketplace with high quality transportation services. He founded Taxibeat in January 2011 and 1,5 years later it operates in 7 cities and 5 countries around the world, like Greece, Brazil, France, Norway and Romania. Now looking to expand even more. Before Taxibeat, Nick also founded Suppline.com at 1998, a B2B e-transactions marketplace, and Sync.gr at 2006, a Greek blogs aggregator and social networking service
Nikos Moraitakis

CEO, Workable

Nikos Moraitakis

Chief Executive Officer, Workable, Athens, Greece

"He is the CEO of Workable, a technology startup he co-founded that aims to re-invent hiring for enterprises. Previously, in the role of VP Business Development at Upstream, he played a key role in the company's growth from startup into one of the world’s top marketing technology companies, where he was actively involved in enterprise sales across 40 countries in 4 continents.