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Nikos Kryvossidis

Director, Partnership Services, EMEA, Google

Nikos Kryvossidis

Director, Partnership Services, EMEA, Google

Nikos joined Google in 2007. At present he is responsible for the technical side of direct Google partnerships in EMEA for various Google product areas including Mobile. Prior to Google Nikos was Engineering SVP for Visto, an American company specialising in Mobile Email and Personal Information Management (PIM) synchronisation. Has also served in Symbian where he was responsible for Messaging, PIM, SyncML, Browsing and Location Based Services. Earlier on worked for Lucent Technologies in the area of ISUP and ISDN Services. Has also worked as a software engineer on Intelligent Network Services (Nortel) when AIN 0.1 and CS1 were being developed. Nikos holds an MSc in Computer Science from McGill University, Montreal and a BSc in Mathematics from University of Patras, Greece.
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).
Vasilis Vassalos

Associate Professor AUEB

Vasilis Vassalos

Associate Professor, Athens University of Business and Economics

Vasilis Vassalos is an Associate Professor in the Department of Informatics at the Athens University of Economics and Business. Between 1999 and 2003 he was an Assistant Professor of Information Technology at the NYU Stern School of Business. He has been working on the challenges of online processing of data from autonomous sources since 1996. He has published more than 35 research papers in international conferences and journals, holds 2 US patents for work on information integration, and regularly serves on the program committees of the major conferences in databases. He was a co-founder and CTO of Enosys Software, a pioneering data integration company that raised more than $10 million in VC funding and was acquired by BEA Systems (now Oracle Corp). He has led a number of publicly-funded research projects in the areas of online distributed information processing. Ηe was a Marie Curie Outgoing International Fellow in 2007-2008 visiting UCSD.
Spyros Floratos

Investment Officer, ASOFIN, Greece

Spyros Floratos

Investment officer, ASOFIN, Greece

Spyros works as an Investment Officer at ASOFIN Management, an asset management company, where he focuses primarily on investment portfolio (listed equities, fixed income, commodities, private equity etc) and corporate financial management. Prior to ASOFIN, Spyros worked at EFG Eurobank Equities as an Equity Analyst. Spyros holds an MSc in Finance from the Manchester Business School and a BSc in Economics from the Athens University of Economics and Business.
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!".
Evangelos Simoudis

Director, Trident Capital

Evangelos Simoudis

Managing Director, Trident Capital - Palo Alto, CA, US

Evangelos Simoudis joined Trident Capital in 2005 as a Venture Partner and has been a Managing Director since 2007. Evangelos focuses on investments in Internet and Enterprise Software businesses. Prior to Trident, Evangelos spent 5 years as a partner at Apax Partners, a private equity and venture capital firm where he invested and served on the boards of early and mid-stage IT companies. At Apax he also chaired the firm’s IT advisory board. Prior to entering venture capital, Evangelos had more than 20 years experience in high-technology industries, in executive roles spanning operations, marketing, sales and engineering. His experience as a technology executive includes serving as President and CEO of Customer Analytics, a Trident-backed, eCRM company acquired by Xchange, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXAP), and as Vice President of Business Intelligence Solutions at IBM. Evangelos' current directorships include DesiHits, Hip Digital, Host Analytics and PivotLink Software. Prior directorships include Bristol Technology (acquired by Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ)), Composite Software, Confluent Software (acquired by Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCL)), Doppelganger (acquired by Hip Digital), Princeton Softech (acquired by IBM) and Vidavee (acquired by Vignette (NASDAQ: VIGN). Evangelos earned a PhD in computer science from Brandeis University and a BS in electrical engineering from Caltech.
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).
Stefanos Vasdekis

Serial Web Entrepreneur

Stefanos Vasdekis

Serial Web Entrepreneur - Athens, Greece

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 1997, 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 1999. 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 small projects that target selected niches in a few European, Asian and American markets.