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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.

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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.

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Niko Bonatsos is an Associate with GC Seed. He focuses on investments in IT (mobile, education technology, consumerized IT business applications & consumer health) as well as seed-stage opportunities with an outlier potential. Niko is particularly interested in working with first time founders, who have a strong perspective about solving big problems their way and most people find it hard to understand them. Concurrent with his academic career, Niko worked on lean manufacturing for Yokogawa Electric Corp, biomedical signal processing at Harvard Medical School/MGH, cloud computing at Stanford University and as a founding team member of myLinkpower, a social networking start-up. Niko is a graduate of Stanford University, earning an M.S. in Management Science and Engineering as a Fulbright Scholar; the University of Cambridge, earning an M.Phil. in Manufacturing Engineering and Management; and the National Technical University of Athens, earning an engineer’s degree (Dipl.-Ing) in Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Alexey is hi-tech business professional and entrepreneur, with 15+ years of experience in Internet and telecom sectors. During his carrier he held positions ranging from technical to sales & business development, in both corporate and start-up environments. He is a cofounder and CEO of YouScan, leading social media monitoring tool in CIS region. Prior to YouScan, Alexey served as Business Development Director of Yandex Ukraine, Enterprise Channel Sales Lead in Alcatel-Lucent Ukraine, and consultant in Nortel. He's also a cofounder of Contactis, Kiev-based outsourcing contact center. Alexey holds Executive MBA degree from Kyiv-Mohyla Business School (kmbs).
Alexey’s specialties are Internet & communication technologies, business development, strategic marketing, startup management, SaaS.

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Sokratis Papafloratos, 31, is the CEO and co-founder of TrustedPlaces, which he launched with Walid Al Saqqaf in September 2006, before raising a total of ₤1M in equity funding and leading the company to becoming one of the leading local review community sites in the UK. Prior to TrustedPlaces Sokratis headed up Operations for WideRay/Qwikker Europe, an American, mobile, technology start-up, funded by Sequoia Capital and Enterprise Partners Venture Capital. Before joining WideRay he spent four years in Vodafone in a variety of senior Strategy and Technology roles. Sokratis is originally from Thessaloniki Greece, where he grew up before moving to the UK to gain a MEng Electronic Engineering at the University of York.

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Marina started her legal career as a trainee solicitor with Clifford Chance in 1998. She qualified into the Maritime and International Trade Group in March 2000. Her areas of expertise include maritime dispute resolution (including charterparty, bills of lading and building contract disputes), commodities and international trade, mergers and acquisitions, advice on corporate structures and legal due diligence of companies, corporate governance, joint venture and shareholder agreements and cross-border acquisitions.
She is currently General Counsel of Electronic Shipping Solutions, an eDocs Services provider which enables international trade participants to better manage and transact the documents required for operations, legal, compliance and customs purposes. She also advises Assos Capital Limited, an independent real estate private equity firm specializing in South-East Europe.
She obtained a 2:1 in her bachelor degree in Government and Law from the London School of Economics and completed the Legal Practice Course with Distinction. In 1997, she obtained an LLM in Maritime Law from University College London with Distinction and was awarded the Derby/Bryce Prize in Law for obtaining the highest marks in the Faculty of Laws across the University of London. Marina is admitted to practice as a Solicitor in England and Wales and is a member of the Law Society of England and Wales.