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Yiannis Dosios

VP, Flurry, USA

Yiannis Dosios

Vice President, Flurry Network, USA

Yannis Dosios is the VP of Flurry Networks, a company that serves advertising and analytics on mobile devices. He has previously served as VP of Marketing at Smilebox, a leading photo and video sharing and preservation service headquartered in Seattle, Washington. His experience is in online paid search and SEO marketing, building profitable consumer business models, business development, partner management, brand building, PR and seeding programs, web analytics and research. Before Smilebox, he was a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft, where he planned and managed a version of the Windows operating system targeted at users in emerging markets and launched it in countries in Asia and Latin America. Prior to that, he was a strategy consultant for the Monitor Group in Los Anageles, providing business strategy advice to senior executives in the pharmaceutical, technology and entertainment industries. Yannis holds a Masters in Business Administration from Stanford University and a BA in Mathematics from Harvard University.
Thanos Triant

CEO, Woodside Financial Group, California, USA

Thanos Triant

CEO, Woodside Financial Group, California, USA

Thanos is a technologist with experience in product development and venture investing. He has advised early stage technology companies and enjoys mentoring entrepreneurial teams. After 20 years in building financial data products for Wall Street and managing IT in large corporations, he has worked as a VC in Silicon Valley and now as an active angel investor. Over the years he has led software teams, built sophisticated, real-time financial data products, managed large IT infrastructures, corporate strategy and M&A. Before starting The Woodside Financial Group, he was an executive at Data Resources, Standard & Poors, McGraw-Hill, Times Mirror, Sun Microsystems and founder/partner at AltoTech Ventures. His investments during the last 14 years in early stage companies include: Siebel Systems, Postini, Securify, ClearStation, Rightworks, Valicert, Sendmail, Xactly, BrightEdge, Symplified, ConnectAndSell, ClairMail, Materna, Taulia and others. Thanos received BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from Columbia University.
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.
Apostolos Apostolakis

Serial web entrepreneur

Apostolos Apostolakis

Serial web entrepreneur

Apostolos Apostolakis, 35, has received his diploma in Civil Engineering from National Technical University of Athens in 1996. In 1998 he cofounded with 2 friends e-shop.gr where he was involved until 2000, when he went to New York to get his MBA from Columbia University. In 2002 after graduation, he joined Boston Consulting Group where he worked as a consultant until 2004. During his time with BCG he was involved with projects in consumer and corporate banking as well as heavy industrial operations. At some of his main projects he analyzed and improved credit processes for banks as well as helped formulate and implement revenue and cost allocation models between business units. In 2004 he rejoined e-shop.gr as a general manager where he serves until today. In 2009 e-shop.gr is the largest technology e-tailer in Greece and Cyprus, having 70 outlets in both countries, employing more than 500 people and expecting revenue for 2009 of 130 million euros. In the first years at e-shop.gr he was involved with all aspects of a growing company and since 2008, with the company having matured, he is mainly involved with the marketing and the financial management of the company. Apostolos is also a member of the board and shareholder at weddingmall a company founded in 2009 aiming to facilitate the wedding registry process for newly weds. In 2012 Apostolos has co-founded DoctorAnytime a doctor appointment service and became an investor in the Openfund II.
Aggelos Maglis

CEO, Atlantis

Aggelos Maglis

CEO, Atlantis Consulting - Thessaloniki, Greece

Aggelos Maglis is the CEO and President of Atlantis Consulting group, and also a board member of Wadja Ltd. He holds a Civil Engineer diploma and postgraduate studies in Technological evolution and Industrial Strategy from the University of Manchester (Prest) UK. He is a member of the Evaluation Network of the General Secretariat of Research of the EU Commission, while he also represents Atlantis towards EU bodies such as the ETEPS (European Techno- Economic Policy Support Network) and the TII (Technology, Innovation, Information).
Vasilis Vassalos

Associate Professor AUEB

Vasilis Vassalos

Associate Professor, Athens University of Business and Economics

Vasilis Vassalos is an Associate Professor in the Department of Informatics at the Athens University of Economics and Business. Between 1999 and 2003 he was an Assistant Professor of Information Technology at the NYU Stern School of Business. He has been working on the challenges of online processing of data from autonomous sources since 1996. He has published more than 35 research papers in international conferences and journals, holds 2 US patents for work on information integration, and regularly serves on the program committees of the major conferences in databases. He was a co-founder and CTO of Enosys Software, a pioneering data integration company that raised more than $10 million in VC funding and was acquired by BEA Systems (now Oracle Corp). He has led a number of publicly-funded research projects in the areas of online distributed information processing. Ηe was a Marie Curie Outgoing International Fellow in 2007-2008 visiting UCSD.
Omiros Sarikas

M&A Financier, AHV Associates, UK

Omiros Sarikas

M&A Financier, AHV Associates, UK

Omiros is a Mergers and Acquisitions Director at AHV Associates LLP, an award-winning advisory. Prior to that, he acted as advisor to venture capital and private equity funds where he worked in London, Zürich and New York on buyout transactions, such as Cinven's acquisition of Sebia for €800m. He has also engaged on project work with Deloitte Corporate Finance, AMEX, Credit Suisse Investment Bank (M&A) and Lyceum Capital private equity. Omiros holds several qualifications including the CCF from CISI, an MSc from LSE and an MBA from Cass. He is a Member of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment and the UK’s Hellenic Bankers Association and admitted as a “Freeman” at the Worshipful Company of International Bankers. In 2011, he was profiled as an "M&A Young Gun" by ACQ Magazine.
Spiros Xanthos

Director, VMWare, USA

Spiros Xanthos

Director of R&D, Big Data Analytics, VMWare, USA

Spiros Xanthos, is the co-founder and VP of Engineering at Pattern Insight, a software company based in Mountain View, CA that was acquired by VMWare in 2011. Before that, Spiros conducted research in Systems Mining and Reliability as a member of the Opera research group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign that created the technology behind Pattern Insight. He has published several research papers in the areas of Systems and Software Engineering. Spiros holds an MSc in computer science from the University of Illinois and is currently on leave from the PhD program. He got his BSc in Computer Science from the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki Greece, where he conducted research in Software Engineering. He has previously worked at Google. Spiros' interests include information mining from systems data, search engines, and large scale software systems development.