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The Openfund provides start-ups with a seed capital ranging from €30.000 to 50.000.
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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.
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).
Vassilis Sotiropoulos

Lawyer

Vassilis Sotiropoulos

Lawyer

He was born in Athens in 1978. He graduated from the Department of Law of the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens and holds a master degree in public law the Department of Law of the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens. He is a PhD Candidate in the field of constitutional law. He runs the blog elawyer.blogspot.com since 2005. He has established in March 2008 the office “Data&Protection-Legal services in the Information Society”. He also blogs at elawyer.blogspot.com .
George Papadakis

Co founder Phaistos Networks

George Papadakis

Co founder Phaistos Networks

George is the Head Of Operations at Phaistos Networks since 1997. Having supervised the implementation of a plethora of web services (Pathfinder.gr, Adman.gr, Trinity.gr among others), he is knowledgeable enough in terms of how to incorporate up-to-date techniques while creating usable and accessible web applications.
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.