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The Openfund provides start-ups with a seed capital ranging from €30.000 to 50.000.
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Andreas Constantinou

Director, Vision Mobile

Andreas Constantinou

Research Director, Vision Mobile - London, UK

Dr. Andreas Constantinou is Research Director at VisionMobile, a prominent industry analyst firm in telecoms. Andreas has nine years experience in research, development and strategy in wireless, specialising in mobile handsets, software strategy and open source. While at VisionMobile, Andreas has worked with several brand-name clients including Sony Ericsson, RIM, France Telecom, T-Mobile, Qualcomm and Symbian. His interests include uncovering under-the-radar industry trends and pursuing human-centric design. When not hopping on planes, Andreas spends his time in Athens, Greece. Andreas holds a Ph.D. in Video Compression from the University of Bristol, UK. You can follow Andreas on twitter.com/andreascon.
Paschalis Bouchoris

Investment Director, NBGi

Paschalis Bouchoris

Investment Director, NBGi Private Equity – Athens, Greece

Paschalis is an Investment Director at NBGI Private Equity since 2006. He focuses on mid-market buyout investments across industry sectors in Southeastern Europe.
He joined NBGI following a 12-year career as an executive and a strategy consultant in the US and Greece. He was an Executive Director at Intracom, a Greek technology group, heading its €200m /1,200-staff Services & Operations division in charge of IT & telecom operations. While at Intracom, he was also active in acquisitions of telecom operators. He had previously worked in New York as a Manager at the Monitor Company, a global strategy consultancy and was also involved in the inception and development of Drexel eLearning, a successful US online education firm, where he was in charge of marketing and strategic planning.
Paschalis studied Electrical Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens and has completed a MBA at the RSM/Erasmus Graduate School of Business in the Netherlands and several executive training programs in Corporate Finance in the US.
Petros Katsampouris

CEO, Vivechrom

Petros Katsampouris

CEO, Vivechrom - Athens, Greece

Petros Katsampouris is the Managing Director of Vivechrom S.A., the Greek subsidiary of AKZONOBEL. Prior to this position he served as Deputy General Manager in ELGEKA, Business Unit Manager in KRAFT/Jacobs-Suchart, Sales Director in Pepsico-Tasty and Marketing Manager in Nestle. He is presently President of the Panhellenic Union of Paint Varnishes and Printing Ink Industry of Greece, and member of the General Council of the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises.
Dimitris Achlioptas

Professor, University of Athens

Dimitris Achlioptas

Professor, University of Athens - Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, Greece

Dimitris joined the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications at the University of Athens as a Professor of Algorithm Design in 2010. From 1998 to 2005 he was with Microsoft Research, Redmond and since 2005 with the Department of Computer Science UC Santa Cruz. In theory, his expertise lies in the interaction between randomness and computation and his work on that topic has appeared in journals including Nature, Science, and the Annals of Mathematics. For this work he has received an NSF CAREER award, a Sloan Fellowship, and the prestigious IDEAS grant from the European Research Council. In practice, he likes to think about scalability questions and holds 18 US Patents ranging from load balancing and cache optimization to privacy-preserving social search. He actively consults with a number of Bay Area companies. In his free time enjoys overworking.
Andreas Acavalos

ex-General Manager, PWC

Andreas Acavalos

ex-General Manager, Price Waterhouse Coopers Consulting - Athens, Greece

Andreas Acavalos is a Management Consultant, specializing in organizational strategy. He has served for over 20 years as a Partner of PriceWaterhouseCoopers in Greece and was Managing Director of PwC Consulting S.A., the firm’s consultancy arm, until its divestment in 2002. He now operates as an independent consultant and serves on the Board of a number of companies in Greece and Switzerland.
Sotiris Sirmakezis

Deputy GM, Retail Banking - Piraeus Bank

Sotiris Sirmakezis

Deputy GM, Retail Banking - Piraeus Bank, Athens, Greece

Sotiris Sirmakezis is Deputy General Manager in the Retail Banking Sector of Piraeus Bank Group. He is responsible for the development, promotion and customer support for all alternative channels (ATM, web, phone, mobile phone, cash payment terminals etc.), interactive marketing (online sales, public web sites, SEO & SEM, social media etc.), electronic banking services (debit cards, card-not-present acceptance, direct debits etc.), value-adding services and e-business initiatives (prepaid cards, alerts, multi-channel air-time top-up, cardless withdrawals, payments portal, e-invoicing etc.) and customer experience management (customer satisfaction measurement, CRM utilization etc.). At the same time, he is the Managing Director of Piraeus Direct Services SA, an affiliate of Piraeus Bank that specializes in contact center services. He started in Piraeus Bank in January 2000 as Director of the Electronic Banking Division (winbank) and, before that, he was the CIO of the former Egnatia Bank (now, Marfin Egnatia Bank).
Sotiris Siagas

Investment Director, i4G

Sotiris Siagas

Investment Director, i4G SA – Thessaloniki, Greece

Sotiris Siagas is the Investement Director of i4G SA, the management company of i4G Business Incubator with a focus on IT start-ups and member of the Euroconsultants Group. He has experience in business plan valuation, risk capital investements, financial analysis and business development. He has served on the boards of early IT companies. Sotiris is also the CFO and co-founder of Kapou Geoinformatics SA. He holds an MBA from Imperial College Business School (London) and a Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Aristotle University (Thessaloniki). He is certified investment professional by the EVCA, member of the Technical Chamber of Greece and the IEEE and speaks 3 languages.
Nayia Antoniou

Lawyer

Nayia Antoniou

Associate, Christopoulos and Associates

Nayia is an associate with the firm which she joined in 2008 as a trainee. Her practice is focused on Company & Commercial matters, advising on company establishment, corporate governance and the entry into all type of commercial contracts, including agency and distribution agreements. She advises in particular on the legal framework within which Cypriot companies operate in Greece. Nayia also represents clients in the registration of trademarks and competition law matters. Nayia qualified to the Athens Bar in 2009. She obtained her law degree from the Democritus University of Thrace in 2006 and an LLM in International Commercial Law from Westminster University, London in 2007.