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Sokratis Papafloratos

co founder, Trusted Places

Sokratis Papafloratos

co founder, Trusted Places

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.
Nikos Anerousis

Head of Engineering, IBM

Nikos Anerousis

Head of Service Engineering Research, IBM - New York City, NY, US

Nikos Anerousis is currently head of Service Engineering Research at the IBM Corporation. Prior to joining IBM in 2003, he was the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Voicemate, a venture-backed startup company that pioneered voice authoring and publishing technology for the financial markets. He started his professional career at AT&T Bell Laboratories (subsequently AT&T Research) as a Senior Member of the Technical Staff. He has also served as adjunct faculty at the department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. Nikos has published extensively in the area of networks and systems management and has filed or was awarded over 20 patents. Dr. Anerousis is active in technology startups as an early investor and adviser on issues of strategy, entrepreneurship and innovation. Also, Dr. Anerousis graduated with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, where he also earned an M.Phil and a M.S. He completed his undergraduate studies at the National Technical University of Athens, receiving the Diploma in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Yorgos Panzaris

Researcher, Entrepreneur

Yorgos Panzaris

Researcher, Entrepreneur - Athens, Greece

Yorgos Panzaris has received a Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens and a PhD in the History of recent technology from Stanford University. He has researched and lectured on the history of networked computing and the emergence of Silicon Valley as an ecosystem for innovation and entrepreneurship. He has worked as a policy advisor at the Greek Ministry of Development and a research associate at the Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society. Yorgos is also the co-creator of AthensBook, a popular city guide for smartphones; and Geo|Ads, one of the first geo-aware advertising platforms for the iPhone.
Tasso Argyros

CTO, Aster Data

Tasso Argyros

co-founder > CTO, Aster Data Systems - San Francisco, CA, US

Tasso (Tassos) Argyros is the CTO and co-founder of Aster Data Systems, where he is responsible for all product and engineering operations of the company. Tasso was recently recognized as one of BusinessWeek's Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs for 2009 and was an SAP fellow at the Stanford Computer Science department. While at Stanford, Tasso was pursuing a Ph.D. in the Distributed Systems Group with a focus on designing cluster architectures for fast, parallel data processing using large farms of commodity servers. He holds an MsC in Computer Science from Stanford University and a Diploma in Computer and Electrical Engineering from Technical University of Athens.
George Gatos

Co-founder, Incrediblue

George Gatos

Co-founder, Business Development, Incrediblue, Volos, Greece

Georgios loves startups and technology oriented companies. For several years he helped teams and companies to narrow the gap between a concept idea and its targeted market, by working on business elements and/or fundraising issues. He began his career in the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Florida. Over the years he worked as a consultant of small and medium size innovative companies responsible for business planning and fundraising and later worked as an investment analyst and advisor of Venture Capital firms.Now he joined a startup!!! Being part of incrediblue allows him to express himself and to put into action all his knowledge that in the past helped others to meet their goals. Although incrediblue gets 101% of his time, he is always willing to help OpenFund's portfolio companies. He actively participates in groups fostering entrepreneurship and innovation, business plan competitions and venture academies, curates the Open Coffee Thessaloniki meetings and belongs to the TEDxThessaloniki team.
Dimitris Glezos

Founder, Indifex

Dimitris Glezos

founder, Indifex - Patras, Greece

Dimitris Glezos is the founder and product director of Indifex, which develops open-source, community-powered products for content localization and distribution. He holds a seat on the Fedora Board (the popular Linux distribution with an audience of 10M) and serves as its Translation Leader. He also holds a position on the Board of the Greek Entrepreneurs' NGO hub, OpenCoffee. His start-up interests revolve around community building, open culture and open source software.
Manos Papatheofanous

Portfolio Manager, EMSO Partners, UK

Manos Papatheofanous

EMSO, UK

Manos combines a technology background with investment experience. He was born in Athens where he started programming the first personal computers in machine code and Basic and subsequently moved to London in 1990 to study Computer Science at Imperial College. He was awarded the Holligrave Scholarship and graduated with First Class Honours in 1993. Following two successful internships at Salomon Brothers in the summers of 1991 and 1992 he joined the firm where he stayed for 3 years before moving to D E Shaw, a quantitative hedge fund. The fascinating world of finance and investments prompted him in 1997 to study at London Business School where he graduated in 1998 with a Masters in Finance. He joined Nomura upon graduation to work in a credit investment desk. Since 2005 he has been a portfolio manager at EMSO Partners Ltd, investing in Emerging Markets globally. He has been following recent technology trends and is captivated by the way technology is shaping the way we live, study and conduct business. He is married with two kids and enjoys travelling.
Nikos Zachariadis

Member of the Board, ETASA, Greece

Nikos Zachariadis

Board, ETASA

Is a board member in the Greek Public Properties Company, 417 strong and managing >7300 properties. Previously he has served in ATE Bank as Vice Chairman, President of Securities and Deputy Governor. He has also served as Secretary General in the Ministry of Mercantile Marine, the Black Sea Trade and Development Bank, the International Economic Relations of the Ministry of Economy, and the National Statistical Service of Greece. He is a MSc Civil Engineer from the National Technical University of Athens, an MSc in Systems Economics from Stanford University, and undergone training in European School of Public Administration in Maastricht, the Netherlands.