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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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Stefanos Vasdekis received his diploma in Civil Engineering from National Technical University of Athens in 2003. In his first year as a student back in 1998, he co-founded with John Nousis his first business, a free web hosting company that was paying back its members. This project targeted the USA market and was sold in 2000. Since then, he has co-founded (always together with his soulmate John Nousis) several other web businesses in the fields of ecommerce, web publishing, software development, internet consulting, online travel reservations and social networking. Most have failed, while some are still running and three out of them already had a successful exit. Today, he focuses on building Travelmyth, a travel search engine where travelers can find recommendations for the best destinations and hotels according to their interests.

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John Nousis managed to finish his degree in the Physics Department of the University of Athens in no less than 13 years. However, he proved to be disproportionally active in the entrepreneurial world. Just after finishing high-school, back in 1998, 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 building Travelmyth, a travel search engine for those ready to travel but not sure where to go.