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Full legal and taxation support, to get your mind clear of anything other than your idea.
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The Openfund provides start-ups with a seed capital ranging from €30.000 to 50.000.
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Panos Samprakos

Director, OgilvyOne

Panos Samprakos

Executive Creative Director, OgilvyOne Worldwide, Greece

Panos has been working in the space of online advertising and Interactive Marketing for more than a decade, trying to bring in touch brands and online users, in way that is both direct and efficient for both parties. Since 2005, he has been directing the interactive unit of OgilvyOne Worldwide Athens, from the position of "Executive Creative Director", guiding creatively the creation of websites and online campaigns. The works that he has directed have repeatedly been awarded in Greece with Grand Ermis awards and have earned international acclaim at the NY Festival and MIXX Awards. Panos blogs at www.panos.gr, while he has founded one of the most historic James Bond fan sites, the "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang!".
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.
Nicolas Ampazis

Assistant Professor

Nicolas Ampazis

Assistant Professor at the University of the Aegean, Entrepreneur - Chios, Greece

Nicholas Ampazis received a BSc (Hons) degree in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College London in 1992, an MSc degree (with distinction) in Information Processing and Neural Networks from King's College London in 1995, and a PhD degree (with distinction) in Neural Computing from the National Technical University of Athens in 2001. During his PhD studies he received a scholarship from the National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos", Athens, Greece. Since 2005 he is an assistant professor at the Department of Financial and Management Engineering at the University of the Aegean, Greece and received tenure for this position as a faculty member in 2009. His main research interests include collective intelligence, information retrieval, data mining, and recommender systems. In 2006 he launched one of the first Web 2.0 startups in Greece (Feeds 2.0) for which he received a Global Innovator Award from Guidewire Group and the first prize for best business plan at the 8th International Venture Capital Forum (2007).
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).
George Gatos

Thermi Ventures

George Gatos

Thermi Ventures - Thessaloniki, Greece

George Gatos, MSc, studied financing and specialized in entrepreneurship in the UK and the US. He began his career in the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation of the University of Florida and later as worked as a business consultant with a primary focus on strategy and fund raising for innovative companies. Today he works as an Investment Analyst at THERMI VENTURES, actively participates in groups fostering entrepreneurship and innovation and co-hosts the Open Coffee Thessaloniki meetings.
Arda Kutsal

General Manager, Crenvo

Arda Kutsal

General Manager, Crenvo Consultancy - Founder/Editor, Webrazzi.com - Istanbul, Turkey

Arda Kutsal is an entrepreneur, business adviser and blogger living in Istanbul, Turkey. He is the author of the most popular Turkish Web 2.0 blog, Webrazzi and also General Manager of Crenvo Consultancy. Crenvo provides consultancy services to mostly internet companies about marketing, strategic management, investments, research and product management. He is one of the most influential people in Turkish internet market.
John Nousis

Serial Web Entrepreneur

John Nousis

Serial Web Entrepreneur - Athens, Greece

John Nousis is yet trying to finish his degree in the Physics Department of the University of Athens. However, he proved to be disproportionally active in the entrepreneurial world. Just after finishing high-school, back in 1997, 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 his ongoing projects and on new ones serving selected international markets.
Dimitris Andreadis

Manager, JBoss

Dimitris Andreadis

Software Engineering Manager, JBoss Application Server, Red Hat - Athens, Greece

Dimitris Andreadis is the Manager of the JBoss Application Server group in the JBoss Division of Red Hat. He has been a JBoss addict and contributor from the early JBoss days and joined Boss in 2004. He became the Lead of the JBoss AS project for three years since 2006. Previously he spent seven years at Intracom and Motorola in the areas of NMS/OSS, designing reusable frameworks and distributed systems. Dimitris studied computer science at the Technological Educational Institute of Athens and received an M.Sc. by research from University College Dublin, Ireland.