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

Head of Strategy, Upstream Systems

Nikos Moraitakis

Head of Strategy, Upstream Systems - Athens, Greece

Nikos Moraitakis is the Head of Strategy and Product Development at Upstream Systems. He had prior experience at Ernst & Young Athens, as a Senior Consultant in IT strategy and e-business. Nikos holds a BEng in Computing from Imperial College, London.
David Taylor

Management consultant

David Taylor

Management consultant, Greece

David Taylor is a management consultant, currently working independently in Greece assisting firms in raising capital and improving operations. Previously he was an engagement manager at McKinsey London, where he worked to improve back-office and technology operations at global banks and leading technology outsourcing providers. In California, David was the Director of Development at a software consultancy that successfully launched ProjectInsight, a leading web-based project management tool. He was also responsible for the launching of web applications for startups in the financial services, entertainment, health care, medical devices, and technology industries. He holds an MBA from Columbia University in New York with an emphasis in Entrepreneurship and Operations. Additionally, he holds a BSc in Computer Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Southern California where he was a National Science Foundation researcher in haptic technology.
Dimosthenis Kaponis

Software Engineer, Cosmical

Dimosthenis Kaponis

Software Engineer, Entrepreneur, Cosmical Technology - Athens, Greece

Dimosthenis Kaponis is the founder and managing director of Cosmical Technology Ltd. and a Ph.D candidate at Imperial College London where he also got his M.Eng in Information Systems Engineering. At Imperial, he worked as a Research Associate in the Intelligent Systems and Networks group, during which time he worked on two European IST research projects, architecting an electronic contract-based trust mechanism in workflow management systems. Prior to founding Cosmical Technology in 2005, he worked as a consultant and contractor for a number of companies in the United Kingdom and Greece, specialising on software architecture, software engineering, distributed systems, security and algorithms.
John Lovitt

former SVP, Rational/IBM

John Lovitt

former SVP Rational/IBM, Investor - Mountain View, CA, US

John Lovitt has over 25 years of experience in sales, marketing, and general management in the software development and deployment markets. He was a senior officer in Rational Software from 1990 to 2003, with roles including Senior VP Worldwide Field Operations, VP Americas Field Operation, and VP Worldwide Services and Support. He played a key role in shaping Rational's team-oriented approach to achieving customer results through improved software development capability. John joined Rational in 1986 as the first products were going to market and grew sales to over $700 million annually, building a field organization of over 1800 sales and technical professionals while integrating several key acquisitions. Before joining Rational, John was with Hewlett Packard for 13 years and McDonnell Douglas for five years. John holds an M.S. in computer science from the Missouri University of Science and Technology at Rolla, and a B.S. in aeronautical engineering from Wichita State University. He is also active on advisory boards at WSU and UMR, and is past president of the MS&T Academy of Computer Science, in addition to serving on several corporate boards. He is active in Habitat for Humanity and has taught entrepreneurship at international summer camps in Eastern Europe and China.
Tasso Argyros

CTO, Aster Data

Tasso Argyros

co-founder > CTO, Aster Data Systems - San Francisco, CA, US

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.
Mark Alex Dimitriou

Senior Analyst, Marfin Investment Group – Athens, Greece

Mark Alex Dimitriou

Senior Analyst, Marfin Investment Group – Athens, Greece

Alex is a Senior Analyst at Marfin Investment Group (MIG). His work covers financial & treasury management, analysis, planning, reporting and control of MIG’s investments mainly in the sector of Financial Services as well as at Group level. He has been engaging independently in advisory services (business planning & development, strategy and marketing) for fashion, luxury and e-business start-ups as well as guest-lecturing to finance postgraduates. Alex is a graduate of the University of Essex with a BSc in Mathematics with Economics and holds an MBA from Cardiff Business School. He is also an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investment and the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.
Marco Veremis

Chairman, Upstream Systems

Marco Veremis

Chairman, Upstream Systems - Athens, Greece

Marco Veremis is the Commercial Director and Chairman of the Board at Upstream Systems. He has prior experience at McCann Ericsson, London, UK, as well as at Grey Advertising, London, UK and DDB London, where he served as account manager and account planner. Marco holds a B.A. in Economics from Warwick University, and M.Phil in International Relations from Oxford University, UK.
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.